Centre of Ceramic Art (CoCA) York

dantheman wrote:lets hope it's the York branch of B&Q

They wouldn't sell.

The shelving might

I was always felt lucky in the past when I could stroll up and look at the collection in Paisley Museum , a York visit will take a little planning , but looks worth it , I wish museums would make catalogues of all the pots , a piccy book as such would surely sell quite well , PS I hate installations , they mean nothing to me and as far as I;m concerned nobody deserves that much space , especially when there are loads of great stuff stored away .

studio-pots wrote:The majority of this second room is taken over by a complete wall of pots and other ceramic objects behind glass as the image below illustrates: -

Now these are crammed in......

....I've been tell yo'all for ages and ages - rack um and stack um. One pot per shelf is passé and about as fashionable as Ziggy Stardust.

Is there any Sydenham ...... or perhaps some .......Briglin?

Certainly not in the collections of the four collectors that the vast majority of the work comes from. There are some other miscellaneous items and it is easy to miss things on the wall of pots shelves.

Quite interesting , the 10,000 hours to become a master thing has been used many times before , golf being an example , it's nonsense ,like a lot of what's talked about art by these experts that around , i'd love to see some large exhibitions on show that don't for once feature Rie , Coper , Leach , Cardew ...JEEZ they were not THAT brilliant imo ( well Coper perhaps ), talked about the most ..sure but it's time to move on a tad , Pearson , Welch , Baldwin and the likes should be given much higher profiles / status , seems it's who you know rather than what you produce that counts , hence De Waal , Perry and the aptly named twomeny

I hear £7.50 is to be an entrance fee , bit much if you ask me , £2 & kids free would be better as not too many will fork out £7.50 especially families

it could have been an introduction to pottery for tens of thousands of people but I suspect only pottery collectors will be willing to pay the entrance fee

10,000 hours is in the book by Matthew Gleason called Outliers. It's on YouTube take too long to explain.

Yes... They need to move on from the standard crew.....

eh?

Sorry malcom Glad well phone won't paste linlk

The Centre's new website was launched today and can visited using the link below: -

http://www.centreofceramicart.org.uk/

....slow

I went to CoCA today and loved it some really beautiful pots.
I agree with Studio though about how difficult it is to find the maker of the pots on the long wall, good guessing game though to test knowledge, they are crammed in and overlapping too and difficult to see the top shelf.
Other cases are less crammed and get a really good look at the pots and bases under the glass shelves.
Its definitely worth the 7.50 entrance fee and you can go out and back in again so I was there for 3.5 hours in total. Will post some pics but wont upload at the mo.

loads of pics on FB if anybody interested