AWARD is the Biennial’s major survey exhibition of current ceramic practice in the UK. Presented at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, the home of the finest historic and contemporary collections of ceramics outside London, the exhibition brings together the leading edge of contemporary creative ceramics design, practice and manufacture.
The AWARD exhibition features 24 artists: Carina Ciscato, Robert Cooper, Phoebe Cummings, Lowri Davies, Robert Dawson, Stephen Dixon, Ken Eastman, Philip Eglin, James Evans, Chris Keenan, Rob Kesseler, IKIK Ceramics, Sun Kim, Peter Lewis, Nao Matsunaga, Craig Mitchell, Katharine Morling, Rosa Nguyen, Merete Rasmussen, Julian Stair, Caroline Tattersall, Andrea Walsh, Dawn Youll.
The AWARD artists and AWARD winner are selected by the Biennial Associates: Alun Graves, Curator of Ceramics & Glass at the V&A, Kevin Oakes, Chief Executive of Steelite International Ltd, Ranti Tjan, Director of the European Ceramic Work Centre in The Netherlands, Ian Vines, Exhibitions Manager at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, and the BCB Co-Directors Barney Hare Duke and Jeremy Theophilus.
The AWARD winner for 2011 is Phoebe Cummings. Phoebe was presented with the £10,000 Spode Award at a ceremony to celebrate the British Ceramics Biennial at The Potters’ Club, Stoke-on-Trent on 13 October.
We’re delighted to welcome Spode as a major new sponsor of Award and Spode Room. Spode is part of the Portmeirion Group, winners of the Queens Award for Enterprise 2011 – International Trade.
Admission to the Award exhibition is free.
