THEORY:
'Sticky/smooth' in The Gift, Think Tank papers and exhibition, 2007
‘The event of a thread, the event of clay: Black
Mountain College and the Crafts’ in Starting
at Zero: Black Mountain College 1933-57, Arnolfini/Kettles
Yard, 2006
also published as 'School of Thought', Crafts Jan/Feb
2006
‘No ideas but in things’ in Ceramic Millenium, Critical Writings on Ceramic History, Theory, and Art ed Garth Clark, NSCAD Press 2006
‘Places Sensed, Senses Placed’ in Languages: Think Tank Papers and Exhibition 2005
Review of ‘Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader’, Crafts no 195, 2005
Review of Shards: Garth Clark on Ceramic Art, Ceramic Review Jul/Aug 2004
"High Unseriousness: Artists and Clay'" in A Secret History of Clay from Gauguin to Gormley, ed Simon Groom, Tate Publishing, 2004
'Ceramics: The Need for a New History' in Crafts Study Centre, Essays for the Opening, Canterton Books, 2004
"Clay" Tate magazine
'Pottery Making in the city "Craft is not just a country pursuit" ' in The Beauty of Craft Green Books 2004
Review of Objects and Meaning: New perspectives on Art and Craft. Crafts Sept/ Oct 2004
"The Parade of Objects: Rethinking Twentieth Century Ceramics" The 2002 Peter Dormer Lecture, RCA.
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Article OICS 2003 Kunsthandwerk 3/03
Review of OICS 2003 international symposium Crafts nov/dec 2003
'Identity Crisis: Post Modern Ceramics' Nov Dec 2003 Ceramic Review
Review of Pioneer Pottery by Michael Cardew, Ceramic Review Jan/Feb 2003
"Well Said" [anthology of writing on crafts] Crafts, March/April 2003
"Geoffrey Grigson", Crafts, Jan/Feb 2003
Review of Art and Artefact:The Museum as Medium
by James Putnam in Crafts Nov/Dec 2002
"Making in the City - craft is not a country pursuit", Resurgence, Nov/Dec 2001
"To Say the Least" [re: minimalism], Crafts, March/April 2001
"On Writing and Crafts", Makers News, Dec 2000
"Making the Story Crooked" [re: crafts and social context] Close, Crafts Council, 22 June - 3 September 2000
"Speak for Yourself: Finding a Language for Contemporary
Ceramics" in Ceramic Review, March/April 2000. [Also
published in Norwegian in Kunsthandwerk, January 2000]
"Ripeness is All" - [re: ideas on skill in craft] - Ripe, Crafts Council, January 2000
"Significant Form?" - [re: status of ceramic sculpture] in Ceramic Review 176 March/April 1999
"Solace and Renewal: The Real Life of Pots" - in 50 Years of Craft edited by Tanya Harrod, Contemporary Applied Arts, 1998
"Parts of a Journal, December 1997 - May 1998" Ideas in the Making: Practice in Theory, ed by Pam Johnson, UEA 1997/98
"Leaving Home" - things 8 summer 1998
John Dewey - Crafts March/April 1998
David Jones - Crafts March/April 1997
Review of Crafts in Britain in the Twentieth Century
by Tanya Harrod in Ceramic Review, November/December 1999
DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE AND MUSEOLOGY:
‘Jewel of the East End: the Saumerez-Smith house’, World of Interiors, February 2006
‘Blackwell: A Response’ in Edmund de Waal: A Line Around a Shadow, Blackwell, 2005
‘Arcanum: mapping eighteenth-century porcelain’ in Arcanum, National Museums and Galleries of Wales, 2005
'Curating Ceramics: Challenging our History, Challenging our future' in New Horizon of Ceramic Art, Icheon Ceramic Research Centre, Korea 2005
Review of Design equals Art, Crafts Mar/April 2005
Article on Collect Crafts Jan/Feb 2005
Review of Exhibition of Wiener Werkstatte in Vienna Crafts May/June 2004
Review of "Slip" Artists in the Netherlands and Britain working with Ceramic, Crafts, Jan/Feb 2003
Review of Nature and Space: Aalto and Le Corbusier by Flora Samuel, Crafts July/August 2003
"Modern Things:Lucie Rie and Vienna” in Lucie
Rie: A Centenary Tribute, Ceramic Review Publishing, 2002 -
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"Modern Pots, Lucie Rie and Vienna", Ceramic Review Jan/ Feb 2002
"Tectonic" - [re: architecture and craft] - Crafts Council, April 2000
"Kettle's Yard" in World of Interiors, April 2000
"That's All. Making Some Pots for High Cross House" - High Cross House, Dartington Hall, 1999
"Introduction" to Constructions - Ceramic and the Memory of Architecture. Amsterdam Ceramic Millennium, Heidelberg 11 July - 22 Aug 1999
"Konstruktionen: Keramik und die Erinnerung an Architektur Keramik Magazin, June/July 1999
Review of "A View of Clay" at Contemporary Applied Arts, London in Crafts July/Aug 1998
"Post-War Studio Ceramics" in Miller's Antiques Encyclopaedia - General Editor, Judith Miller. Mitchell Beazley, 1998
"Back in London" in Lucie Rie & Hans Coper - Potters in Parallel edited by Margot Coatts. Herbert Press/Barbican Art Gallery, 1997
Review of 'Craft in the Machine Age 1920-1945' edited by Janet Kardon in Ceramic Review 158 Mar/Apr, 1996
Review of 'Functionalist Design: and Ongoing History' by George H Marcus in Ceramic Review 155, 1995
"Still Life With Ceramic" - [re: redisplay at St Ives Tate] - Crafts March/April 1996
"Seats of Glory" - [re: chairs] - New Statesman & Society 17 February 1995
"Waste Not Want Not: Pugin and Ceramics" - Ceramic Review 148 July/Aug 1994
Review of "Primavera Pioneering Craft and Design 1945-1995" at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge in Ceramic Review 157 Jan/Feb 1996
