Two Films about Potters

Robin Kewell Film Night 20 February 2010.

"The Potters Art, East - West" (The story of Bernard Leach) a rare film from the Archive made in the 1970's the film includes a section on Wedgewood with Leach comparing the industrial potteries to what he and others were doing in Cornwall.

"Playing with Fire" which was made in West Cornwall as part of the Tate St Ives 'Ceramica' event. Jason Wason became a potter after travelling the world for eight years with the aim of exploring the cultures of the Balkans, Mediterranean, Middle East and Asia. In 1976 he arrived in Cornwall and was taken on in Bernard Leach's St Ives Pottery as an assistant in the production of domestic pottery thrown on the wheel. After Bernard Leach's death in 1979, Jason continued to work at the Leach Pottery with two other potters until setting up his own studio near St Just on the Penwith Peninsula in 1981. Jason invited Japanese potter Yasuo Terada to come to St. Ives to conduct a massive straw bale firing with work by many artists, poets, writers and crafstmen.

The films will be introduced by film-maker Robin Kewell who grew up in St Ives.

Venue Top Floor of Lopdell House, 7.30pm doors open at 7pm.

Bookings phone 09 817 8087 x201 or call into the gallery shop.

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