Alan Caiger-Smith

Alan Caiger-Smith

Alan Caiger-Smith (born 1930) is a British studio potter and writer on pottery.

Life and work

He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and read history at King's College, Cambridge (1949-1952). He trained in pottery at the Central School of Art & Design in 1954 under Dora Billington. [Studio Pottery by Watson Oliver,"Studio Pottery"Phaidon Press Ltd.1993 p.157. ISBN 978-0714829487]

He established the Aldermaston Pottery in 1955, "a cooperative workshop of about seven potters making functional domestic ware and tiles, as well as individual commissions and one-off pots. By trial and error he revived and perfected two virtually lost techniques: the use of tin glaze and painted pigments on red earthenware clay, and the firing of lustres on to tin glazes." [ [http://www.artnet.com/library/01/0130/T013016.asp Grove Art] ]

His book on "Tin-Glaze Pottery" (1973) covers its history and much of its technique. He co-translated and annotated a detailed contemporary description of the materials and methods of Renaissance maiolica, "I Tre Libre Dell'Arte Del Vasaio" ("The Three Books of the Potter’s Art") (1980). His history of lustre ware, "Lustre Pottery", was published in 1985. He was Chairman of the British Crafts Centre 1973-1978 and was awarded the MBE in 1988. [Studio Pottery by Watson Oliver,"Studio Pottery"Phaidon Press Ltd.1993 p.157. ISBN 978-0714829487] He ceased employing assistants in 1993 to concentrate on personal work and in 2006 announced his decision to sell the Aldermaston Pottery. ["Ceramic Review", 221, Sept/Oct 2006, p.17]

Bibliography

*Caiger-Smith, Alan, "Tin-Glaze Pottery in Europe and the Islamic World: The Tradition of 1000 Years in Maiolica, Faience and Delftware" (Faber and Faber, 1973) ISBN 0-571-09349-3
*Caiger-Smith, Alan, "Lustre Pottery: Technique, Tradition and Innovation in Islam and the Western World"(Faber and Faber, 1985) ISBN 0-571-13507-2
*Caiger-Smith, Alan, "Pottery, People and Time: A Workshop in Action" (Shepton Beauchamp : Richard Dennis, 1995) ISBN 0-903-68539-6
*Piccolpasso, Cipriano, "The Three Books of the Potter's Art (I Tre Libri del Arte Vasaiao)" (trans. A.Caiger Smith and R.Lightbown) (Scolar Press, 1980) ISBN 0-859-67452-5

References

ee also

Tin-glazed pottery

External links

* [http://webserver2.realnet2000.co.uk/primavera.nsf/854bbbce6c4b502880256faa003e1878/960c9a204c938f9980256fd6005906c4!OpenDocument Primavera Gallery]
* [http://www.media.uwe.ac.uk/nevac/acsmith.htm National Electronic and Video Archive of the Crafts]


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