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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

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Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

Sutton Taylor

Born: 1943, UK, England, Yorkshire

Ceramicist. Taylor originally trained as a teacher. On travels in Jamaica, Mexico and the USA he met several potters including Cecil Baugh and Madge Spencer, which inspired him to return to England and set up his first pottery in Yorkshire, where he began to work in stoneware and porcelain. Taylor then moved to Leeds where he produced stoneware and porcelain and experimented with laminated clays.

In 1974 he set up a wood-fired kiln back in Yorkshire and began to experiment with raku, low-fired glazes, and on-glaze pigment reduction using local clays and earth pigments. He developed the ancient Persian technique of lustre, decorating pottery with metallic surfaces, and exhibited his first series of lustre pots in Leeds in 1976 and from then on, exhibited internationally.

He was the joint winner of the Grand Prix de la Ville de Vellauris 9th Biennale in 1984. He uses the landscape as inspiration for his work and currently lives and works in Cornwall.

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

[Footed bowl with orange-red interior] C1663 Ceramics




 
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