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THIS IS AN ADAPTED, ARCHIVE PAGE FROM THE OLD ARTCUMBRIA WEB SITE
Hot Off The Press Ceramics and Print, a Tullie House, Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery touring exhibition, part funded by the Crafts Council and Northern Arts, originated from Paul Scott's ceramic studio in the wilds of rural West Cumbria. The exhibition grew from his research for the book, Ceramics and Print (A&C Black 1994) a handbook of printmaking processes allied to ceramics. It identified a range of methods and techniques for making ceramic pieces involving print, or making prints with ceramic materials. The work featured in the exhibition Hot off the Press varied in scale from small plates to large sculptural and installation pieces.
Another book, Hot off the Press (Bellew 1996) was published to co-incide with the HOP exhibition. Ceramics and print have in common the ability to repeat a shape, form or image. The difference is that ceramics usually deals with the three dimensional, and print the two dimensional. The two have been used together for some considerable time in the service of industry to produce usable and decorative ceramic artifacts and utensils, and more recently, visual artists have begun to creatively exploit this marriage of processes and disciplines with startling results. The presence of print in the work, either image based visuals, or written text means that the work is immediately accessible, but there are often deeper meanings and references. The exhibition seeked to challenge preconceived ideas of contemporary studio ceramics, and the fine art print. It demonstrated that cross disciplinary links in the visual, decorative and applied arts were producing fruitful hybridizations, some of which were at odds with traditional classifications of work. |
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The exhibition itself finished in January 1998, subsequently other events have continued to develop out of it........ In July 1998, 18 artists formed the Hot off the Press 2 Symposium in the International Ceramic Studios, Kecskemét, Hungary. Although the nucleus of the group were from the original exhibition, this symposium introduced new artists to HOP, including ones from Hungary, Iceland, Germany and Japan. Two exhibitions were the result of this symposium, one in Kecskemét, and another in Budapest. Called HOP2 the body of work left at the ICS was the first to be shown in the new ICS Gallery at Kecskemét. An
internet report on HOP2 can be found at: A report of the HOP
Symposium was made at the International Academy of
Ceramics in Toronto In September 1998, University of Central Lancashire, Preston...Fired Print was the first Northern Potters Festival to focus on a particular theme. These events held every two years provide a weekend of demonstrations and workshops. This one featured Ceramics and Print and was directly as a result of HOP. This introduced new artists working in Print and Ceramics from Switzerland and Australia, to compliment artists from USA, UK and Hungary. Hugely successful, attendees included not only ceramists, but many involved in fine art printmaking. In October 1998, the second exhibition evolving from the issues raised by HOP opened at Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham. Glazed Expressions examined the use of the written and printed words in ceramics; historical, industrial and contemporary. An accompanying catalogue included a number of essays which analysed this area further. In March 1999 a
comprehensive presentation overviewing the historical
and contemporary Ceramics and Print scene was made by
Les Lawrence and Paul Scott to the National Council for
Education in the Ceramic Arts annual conference at
Columbus Ohio in USA.
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The Ceramics and Print book is an overview of different
processes and techniques for using print and clay together, a
practical handbook; Hot off the Press on the other hand was
concerned to find out why and where this phenomena was coming
from and going to...
