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'''Sara Radstone'''
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[[File:'Untold' (detail) 2017.jpg|thumb|'Untold' 2017. An installation of 27 elements; paper clay and mixed media.]]
'''Sara Radstone''' (born 1955) is a British [[ceramic artist]] and lecturer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/collection/artists/radstone-sara-1955|title=Sara Radstone (1955–)|website =British Council|accessdate=20 November 2020}}</ref><ref name="as">{{cite web|url=http://www.anthonyshawcollection.org/sr/collection_sr.htm |title=Sara Radstone|author=David Whiting|website= The Anthony Shaw Collection|accessdate= 20 November 2020}}</ref> Her work ranges from intimate wall based sculpture to large scale installations of multiple elements.

[[File:'Shroud III' (detail) 2017.jpg|thumb|'Shroud III' 2017. Detail of wall based sculpture, slip-dipped hessian scrim, paint-stained newsprint]]

Radstone trained at [[Hereford College of Arts|Herefordshire College of Arts]] and later at the [[Camberwell College of Arts]],<ref name="as" /> from where she graduated in 1979<ref>{{Cite web |title=More Than Words: A New Exhibition of Work by Sara Radstone – by Hannah Savage, York Art Gallery Team Leader |url=https://www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/blog/more-than-words-by-hannah-savage-york-art-gallery/ |access-date=2020-11-30 |website=www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk}}</ref> as part of a cohort that included [[Angus Suttie]] and Henry Pim. Her work is included in numerous public collections both in the UK and overseas, including four works in the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]],<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-11-20|title=Nushu {{!}} Radstone, Sara {{!}} V&A Search the Collections|url=http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1241499|access-date=2020-11-20|website=V and A Collections|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-11-20|title=Vase {{!}} Radstone, Sara {{!}} V&A Search the Collections|url=http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O19614|access-date=2020-11-20|website=V and A Collections|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-11-20|title=Vessel {{!}} Radstone, Sara {{!}} V&A Search the Collections|url=http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O19615|access-date=2020-11-20|website=V and A Collections|language=en}}</ref> the [[Fitzwilliam Museum]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/214014|title=Vessel (accession number C.4-2017)|work=Collections: Objects and Artworks|publisher=Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2020-11-20}}</ref> the [[British Council]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/collection/artists/radstone-sara-1955|title=Sara Radstone (1955 – )|publisher=[[British Council]]|accessdate=2020-11-20}}</ref>
the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan and [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Untitled, Sara Radstone (England, born 1955){{!}} LACMA Collections|url=https://collections.lacma.org/node/176568|access-date=2020-11-24|website=collections.lacma.org}}</ref>


Sara Radstone, born in London in 1955, is one of Britain’s leading ceramic artists, and her work has been widely shown throughout the world for more than four decades. Her work ranges from intimate wall based sculpture to large scale installations of multiple elements. Sara trained at [[[[Camberwell College of Arts]],]] graduating in 1979 as part of a celebrated cohort that included [[Angus Suttie]] and [[[http://Henry%20Pim. Henry Pim.]]] Her work is included in numerous public collections both in the UK and overseas, including the [[Victoria and Albert Museum,]] London; [[British Council]]; [[Crafts Council]], London; [[Contemporary Art Society]], London; [[Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection]], University of East Anglia; [http://Shigaraki%20Ceramic%20Cultural%20Park Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park], Japan; [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]]; [[Arizona State University Art Museum]]; [[Arkansas Arts Centre]]; [[Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt]]; [[Buckinghamshire County Museum]]; [[Birmingham City Art Gallery]]; [[Paisley Museum and Art Gallery]]; [[Ulster Museum]], Belfast; [[Swindon Museum and Art Gallery]]; Town of Chateauroux; Unilever plc, London; [http://Aberdeen%20Museum%20and%20Art%20Gallery Aberdeen Museum and Art Gallery]; [http://MIMA,%20Middlesbrough MIMA, Middlesbrough]; [http://The%20Anthony%20Shaw%20Collection The Anthony Shaw Collection], [http://Centre%20of%20Ceramic%20Art,%20York Centre of Ceramic Art, York].
She lives and works in South East London.
She lives and works in South East London.


==Career==
Sara has always combined her professional practice with teaching and lecturing, both in the UK and abroad. She has taught at [[Camberwell College of Art]], University of the Arts, London; [http://University%20for%20the%20Creative%20Arts,%20Farnham University for the Creative Arts, Farnham]; Wimbledon School of Art, London; Portsmouth Polytechnic; and since 1994 on the highly acclaimed [http://Ceramics%20Diploma%20Course%20at%20the%20City%20Lit Ceramics Diploma Course at the City Lit] in London. Sara has also been a Visiting Lecturer at University of Sunderland; University of Westminster; Croydon School of Art; Exeter College of Art and Design; Loughborough College of Art and Design; University for the Creative Arts, Rochester; Central St.Martin's School of Art, London; Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent; Edinburgh College of Art and, as Artist in Residence, Thomas Tallis School, London. During 1990 Sara was Visiting Professor in the School of Fine Arts, [[University of Colorado, Boulder]], USA. She has also been a Visiting Lecturer at universities in Seoul, South Korea; Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul; Habourfront Arts Centre, Toronto; Sheridan College, Mississauga, Ontario; [http://New%20York%20State%20College%20of%20Ceramics,%20Alfred%20University,%20USA New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University, USA]; National College of Art and Design, Dublin; Limerick College of Art; Crawford College of Art, Cork; Towson State University, Baltimore, Maryland and Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
===Work===
In 1979 Radstone established her first studio at 401½ Workshops in South London,<ref>Yates-Owen, Eric; Fournier, Robert. ''British Studio Potters' Marks''. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. {{isbn|978-1-4081-9036-4}}</ref> receiving a grant from the Crafts Council, followed by an award from the Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Trust, who also supported the establishment of Arlingford Studios in [[Brixton]], [[South London]] in 1985. She also received awards from Greater London Arts, the Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust and won the Unilever Prize in 1988. In 1993 she was a recipient of the inaugural Arts Foundation Fellowship. Radstone was a contributor to the conference, ''Culture and the Unconscious'' at SOAS, London, and she was a participant at the [[St George's House (Windsor Castle)|St. George's House, Windsor Castle]], consultation, ''The Value of Culture and the Crisis of Judgement''. In 2020 she delivered the annual Henry Hammond Memorial Lecture.<ref name="CSC"/>

===Exhibitions===
Radstone has exhibited internationally for over 40 years. In addition to regular solo exhibitions at Marsden Woo Gallery in London, she has had solo exhibitions at a variety of galleries and museums,<ref name="YAG">{{cite web |title=Sara Radstone |url=https://marsdenwoo.com/sara-radstone |website=Marsden Woo Gallery |accessdate=21 November 2020}}</ref> and participated in group shows in Europe, the US and Japan.


A major retrospective exhibition of her career, titled ''More than Words'', was held in 2017–18 at the [[York Art Gallery]]'s Centre of Ceramic Art.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://museumcrush.org/more-than-words-mining-the-depths-of-the-interior-clay-void-with-ceramicist-sara-radstone/|title=More than Words: Mining the depths of the interior clay void with Sara Radstone|author=Richard Moss|date=11 January 2018|work=Museum Crush|accessdate=20 November 2020}}</ref><ref name="More than words">{{cite news |last1=Hutchinson |first1=Charles |title=Why ceramics mean more than words to artist Sara Radstone in York Art Gallery retrospective |url=https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15809697.ceramics-mean-words-artist-sara-radstone-york-art-gallery-retrospective/ |accessdate=18 November 2020 |work=[[York Press]] |date=5 January 2018 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="YorkMix see">{{cite news |last1=Tophill |first1=Charlie |title=The art to see in York this month – January 2018 |url=https://www.yorkmix.com/art-see-york-month-january-2018/ |accessdate=18 November 2020 |work=York Mix |date=11 January 2018}}</ref> In 2019 she was a joint organiser of ''Unearthed'', a three-person exhibition at the House Mill, Three Mills Island, London.<ref name="CR">"[https://www.ceramicreview.com/events/unearthed/ Unearthed]". ''Ceramic Review'', Issue 306, November/December 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2020</ref>
Described by [[http://Anthony Shaw]] as a ''"unique and authentic voice",'' Sara Radstone's work has always pushed against the perceived boundaries of ceramic sculpture. She comes from "...a special generation of artists using clay to open up forms of expression rather than the enclosed and centred object" [A.S]. Her distinctive handbuilt structures explore ideas concerned with memory, history and human traces, loss and absence, and attempt to forge a material language to express these themes. Recent work also incorporates paper, paint, cloth and found ephemera, embracing ideas concerning frailty, fragmentation and suppression; to what extent can the slightest most fragile scrap of stuff cling on to identity, presence and substance?


===Teaching===
In 1979 Sara Radstone established her first studio at 401½ Workshops in South London, receiving a grant from the [[Crafts Council,]] followed by an award from the [[Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Trust]]. Other awards followed, which included [[Greater London Arts,]] the [[Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust]], the [[Unilever Prize]] and, in 1993, the inaugural [[Arts Foundation Fellowship.]] Sara was a contributor to the conference, ''Culture and the Unconscious'' at SOAS, London, and she was a participant at the [http://St.%20George's%20House,%20Windsor%20Castle St. George's House, Windsor Castle], consultation, ''The Value of Culture and the Crisis of Judgement''. In 2020 she delivered the annual [http://Henry%20Hammond%20Memorial%20Lecture Henry Hammond Memorial Lecture].
Radstone has taught and lectured throughout her career, both in the UK and abroad. She has held positions at [[Camberwell College of Art]], University of the Arts, London; [[University for the Creative Arts]], Farnham; [[Wimbledon School of Art]], London; [[Portsmouth Polytechnic]] and The University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.{{Citation needed|date=November 2020}} Since 1994 Radstone has taught on the Ceramics Diploma Course at the City Lit in London. Institutions where she has been a visiting lecturer include New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, as well as a number of other colleges in North America; also at universities in South Korea and Ireland.<ref name="CSC">{{cite web|url=https://www.csc.uca.ac.uk/programme/2020/3/11/henry-hammond-lecture-2020-sara-radstone|title=Current Programme Henry Hammond Lecture 2020: Sara Radstone|website=Crafts Study Centre|date=11 March 2020 |accessdate=20 November 2020}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=November 2020}}


==Writing==
Sara has exhibited nationally and internationally for 40 years. As well as regular solo exhibitions at [http://Marsden%20Woo%20Gallery Marsden Woo Gallery] in London, she has had one person exhibitions at [http://Anatol%20Orient Anatol Orient] and [http://Galerie%20Besson Galerie Besson], London, and at Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Edinburgh College of Art; [http://Aberdeen%20Museum%20and%20Art%20Gallery Aberdeen Museum and Art Gallery]; [[An Lanntair]], Stornoway and Osiris Gallery, Brussels. Numerous group shows at UK and international venues include [http://Keramikmuseet%20Grimmerhus Keramikmuseet Grimmerhus], Denmark; [http://Galerie%20Binnen Galerie Binnen], Amsterdam; [http://Pro%20Art,%20St%20Louis Pro Art, St Louis], Missouri; [http://Galerie%20Marianne%20Heller Galerie Marianne Heller], Sandhausen; [http://Galerie%20L Galerie L] and Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; Bellas Artes, Santa Fe and New York City; Art Space Niji, Tokyo; [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]]; [[Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts]], University of East Anglia; Crafts Council Gallery, London; [[Barbican Arts Centre]], London; [http://MOMA%20Oxford MOMA Oxford]; [http://Contemporary%20Applied%20Arts,%20London Contemporary Applied Arts, London]. 2017-18 saw the celebration of her career to date with a major retrospective exhibition, 'More than Words' at [http://York%20Art%20Gallery's%20Centre%20of%20Ceramic%20Art York Art Gallery's Centre of Ceramic Art]. In 2019 she was a joint organiser of '''Unearthed''', a three person exhibition at the [http://House%20Mill,%20Three%20Mills%20Island,%20London. House Mill, Three Mills Island, London.]
*Catalogue essay for ''79/97'', An Lanntair and tour;
*'An Exemplary Artist', catalogue essay for ''Angus Suttie 1946-1993'', published by Contemporary Applied Arts 1994;
*Obituary: Angus Suttie, ''Crafts'', September/October 1993;
*'Builders of Dreams', ''Crafts'', March/April 1987;
*Review, ''Crafts'', May/June 1986;
*'The Whole Works', essay for Angus Suttie exhibition catalogue, Anatol Orient 1985.


==References==
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'''Publications'''
Sara Radstone: ''More than Words'', The Anthony Shaw Collection 2018; a special edition of this book (print run of 50) includes a unique and specially commissioned work on paper.
Richard Stubbs,''Conversation Pieces'' 2014;
Phil Sayer, ''Studio'', Ruthin Craft Centre, 2012;
David Whiting, ''Modern British Potters and their studios'', A&C Black 2010;
Michael Hardy, ''Coiling'', A&C Black 2006;
Jane Perryman, Naked Clay, A&C Black 2005;
Cyril Frankel, ''Modern Pots, Lucie Rie, Hans Coper and their Contemporaries, the Lisa Sainsbury Collection'', UEA 2001;
Jo Lauria, ''Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics 1950-2000'', LACMA / Rizzoli 2000;
Edmund de Waal, ''Design Sourcebook: Pottery and Ceramics'', New Holland 1999;
Richard Zakin, ''Ceramics - Mastering the Craft'', Krause Publishing 2000;
Betty Blandino, ''Coiled Pottery'', (reprint, update), A&C Black 1996;
Garth Clark, ''The Potter's Art'', Abbeville Press 1992;
Oliver Watson, ''British Studio Pottery'', V&A/Phaidon/Christies 1990;
Paul Rice and Christopher Gowing, ''British Studio Ceramics'', Barrie and Jenkins 1989;
Betty Blandino, ''Coiled Pottery'', A&C Black 1984.


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'''References'''
[[Category:1955 births]]
[http://museumcrush.org museumcrush.org] Jan 2018;
[[Category:Living people]]
[http://yorkpress.co.uk yorkpress.co.uk] Jan 2018;
[[Category:20th-century British women artists]]
''Leaves of Clay'', ''Ceramic Review'', Jan/Feb 2015;
[[Category:21st-century British women artists]]
Review, ''Ceramic Review'', March/April 2005;
[[Category:Alumni of Camberwell College of Arts]]
Review, ''Ceramics in Society'', Summer 2002;
[[Category:Artists from London]]
Review, ''Crafts'', May/June 2002;
[[Category:20th-century British ceramists]]
Review, ''Ceramic Review'', May/June 2002;
[[Category:21st-century ceramists]]
Review, ''Crafts'', May/June 1999;
[[Category:British women ceramicists]]
Profile and review, ''Studio Pottery'', August/September 1997;
[[Category:Academics of Wimbledon College of Arts]]
''Pandora's Box'' (catalogue), Crafts Council 1995;
[[Category:Academics of Camberwell College of Arts]]
''The Raw and the Cooked'' (catalogue), Museum of Modern Art, Oxford 1993;
'Acquisitive Artists', ''Arts Review'', December/January 1993;
Review, ''Arts Review'', February 1990;
Review by Tanya Harrod, ''Crafts'', May/June 1990;
Article, ''Monthly Crafts'' (Korea), October 1990;
Review by Jane Hamlyn, ''Crafts'', March/April 1989;
Review by Graham Hughes, ''Arts Review'', February 1988;
Review by Alison Britton, ''Crafts'', May/June 1988;
'Radstone Wins at Portobello', ''Crafts'', July/August 1988;
Review by Emmanuel Cooper, ''Crafts'', January/February 1987;
Profile by Angus Suttie, ''Ceramic Review'', July/August 1986;
Review by Alison Britton, ''Crafts'', September/October 1986;
'British Ceramics in Czechoslovakia', Milena Lamarova, ''American Craft'', February/March 1985;
Review, ''Ceramics Monthly'' (USA), January 1984;
Profile by Richard Deacon, ''Crafts'', May/June 1983;
Review by Griselda Gilroy, ''Crafts'', July/August 1981.

Latest revision as of 20:51, 10 November 2024

'Untold' 2017. An installation of 27 elements; paper clay and mixed media.

Sara Radstone (born 1955) is a British ceramic artist and lecturer.[1][2] Her work ranges from intimate wall based sculpture to large scale installations of multiple elements.

'Shroud III' 2017. Detail of wall based sculpture, slip-dipped hessian scrim, paint-stained newsprint

Radstone trained at Herefordshire College of Arts and later at the Camberwell College of Arts,[2] from where she graduated in 1979[3] as part of a cohort that included Angus Suttie and Henry Pim. Her work is included in numerous public collections both in the UK and overseas, including four works in the Victoria and Albert Museum,[4][5][6] the Fitzwilliam Museum,[7] the British Council,[8] the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.[9]

She lives and works in South East London.

Career

[edit]

Work

[edit]

In 1979 Radstone established her first studio at 401½ Workshops in South London,[10] receiving a grant from the Crafts Council, followed by an award from the Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Trust, who also supported the establishment of Arlingford Studios in Brixton, South London in 1985. She also received awards from Greater London Arts, the Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust and won the Unilever Prize in 1988. In 1993 she was a recipient of the inaugural Arts Foundation Fellowship. Radstone was a contributor to the conference, Culture and the Unconscious at SOAS, London, and she was a participant at the St. George's House, Windsor Castle, consultation, The Value of Culture and the Crisis of Judgement. In 2020 she delivered the annual Henry Hammond Memorial Lecture.[11]

Exhibitions

[edit]

Radstone has exhibited internationally for over 40 years. In addition to regular solo exhibitions at Marsden Woo Gallery in London, she has had solo exhibitions at a variety of galleries and museums,[12] and participated in group shows in Europe, the US and Japan.

A major retrospective exhibition of her career, titled More than Words, was held in 2017–18 at the York Art Gallery's Centre of Ceramic Art.[13][14][15] In 2019 she was a joint organiser of Unearthed, a three-person exhibition at the House Mill, Three Mills Island, London.[16]

Teaching

[edit]

Radstone has taught and lectured throughout her career, both in the UK and abroad. She has held positions at Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts, London; University for the Creative Arts, Farnham; Wimbledon School of Art, London; Portsmouth Polytechnic and The University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.[citation needed] Since 1994 Radstone has taught on the Ceramics Diploma Course at the City Lit in London. Institutions where she has been a visiting lecturer include New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, as well as a number of other colleges in North America; also at universities in South Korea and Ireland.[11][failed verification]

Writing

[edit]
  • Catalogue essay for 79/97, An Lanntair and tour;
  • 'An Exemplary Artist', catalogue essay for Angus Suttie 1946-1993, published by Contemporary Applied Arts 1994;
  • Obituary: Angus Suttie, Crafts, September/October 1993;
  • 'Builders of Dreams', Crafts, March/April 1987;
  • Review, Crafts, May/June 1986;
  • 'The Whole Works', essay for Angus Suttie exhibition catalogue, Anatol Orient 1985.

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Sara Radstone (1955–)". British Council. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  2. ^ a b David Whiting. "Sara Radstone". The Anthony Shaw Collection. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  3. ^ "More Than Words: A New Exhibition of Work by Sara Radstone – by Hannah Savage, York Art Gallery Team Leader". www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  4. ^ "Nushu | Radstone, Sara | V&A Search the Collections". V and A Collections. 20 November 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  5. ^ "Vase | Radstone, Sara | V&A Search the Collections". V and A Collections. 20 November 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  6. ^ "Vessel | Radstone, Sara | V&A Search the Collections". V and A Collections. 20 November 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  7. ^ "Vessel (accession number C.4-2017)". Collections: Objects and Artworks. Fitzwilliam Museum. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  8. ^ "Sara Radstone (1955 – )". British Council. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  9. ^ "Untitled, Sara Radstone (England, born 1955)| LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  10. ^ Yates-Owen, Eric; Fournier, Robert. British Studio Potters' Marks. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4081-9036-4
  11. ^ a b "Current Programme Henry Hammond Lecture 2020: Sara Radstone". Crafts Study Centre. 11 March 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  12. ^ "Sara Radstone". Marsden Woo Gallery. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  13. ^ Richard Moss (11 January 2018). "More than Words: Mining the depths of the interior clay void with Sara Radstone". Museum Crush. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  14. ^ Hutchinson, Charles (5 January 2018). "Why ceramics mean more than words to artist Sara Radstone in York Art Gallery retrospective". York Press. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  15. ^ Tophill, Charlie (11 January 2018). "The art to see in York this month – January 2018". York Mix. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  16. ^ "Unearthed". Ceramic Review, Issue 306, November/December 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2020