6pm Thursday 14th November – Tuesday 24th December 2013
NOTE: Nothing will be sold until the exhibition opens at 6pm on Thursday 14th November.
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Prue Cooper on making her dishes:
The dishes are slabs of clay pressed into plaster moulds, like making jam tarts. They are red earthenware, decorated with slips (“slip” just describes sloppy clay); the ground colour is brushed, the lettering extruded (like writing Happy Birthday on a cake), and the images are transferred off paper cut-outs which have been brushed with slip, and the internal lines drawn in with a porcupine quill. The dishes are dish-washer proof, microwavable, gently oven-proof, and food-safe.
The price range of this exhibition was £70 – £350
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1. 'Dish of Dishes'. 15x15 inches.
2. 'Deep Sea Fish'. 11x21 inches.
3. 'Pointing'. 13 inches diameter.
4. 'As my old father used to say in 1863. Once people start on all this art - goodbye moralitee' (A. P. Herbert). 14 inches diameter.
5. 'I value my garden for being full of Blackbirds. And give them fruit for their songs' (Joseph Addison). 14 inches diameter.
6. 'As my old father used to say in 1863. Once people start on all this art - goodbye moralitee' (A. P. Herbert). 14 inches diameter.
7. 'A little house, whose humble roof is weatherproof. Under the Spars of which I lie both warm and dry' (Robert Herrick).14 inches diameter.
8. 'I am like a tree. From my top boughs I can see the footprints that led up to me' (R. S. Thomas). 14 inches diameter.
9. 'And while there's moonlight and music and love and romance. Lets face the music and dance' (Irving Berlin).14 inches diameter.
10. 'If the while I think on thee dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end' (Shakespeare - Sonnet No.30). 14 inches diameter.
11. 'How the world works'. A pair. Each 12x12 inches.
12. 'Sitting it out'. 14 inches diameter.
13. 'Mr Discobolos and his dog'. 11x11 inches.
14. 'Dog in a tree'. 11x11 inches.
15. 'The Minotaur's day out'. 11x11 inches.
16. 'Filling the space'. 8x10 inches.
17. 'Architrave'. 8x10 inches.
18. 'The importance of being prepared'. 8x10 inches.
19. 'Music'. 8x10 inches.
20. 'Adventure'. 8x10 inches.
21. 'Repairs'. 8x10 inches.
22. 'Removals'. 8x10 inches.
23. 'Sleepers'. 8x10 inches.
24. 'Cafe'. 8x10 inches.
25. 'Dog in a truck'. 8x10 inches.
26. 'Striking a balance'. 8x10 inches.
27. 'Helpful Hikers'. 8x10 inches.
28. 'Stepping out'. 8x10 inches.
29. 'Gone'. 8x10 inches.
30. 'Foxed'. 8x10 inches.
31. 'A tasty dinner to the heart can speak, stronger than ten quotations from the Greek' (Anon). 13x12 inches.
32. 'Whatever the weather, we'll brave it together' (W. S. Gilbert). 10x12 inches.
33. 'People must have puddings' (Emily Dickinson). 10x12 inches.
34. 'De gustibus non est disputandum'. 10x12 inches.
35. 'Keep friendships in constant repair' (Dr Johnson). 10x12 inches.
36. 'Architects may come and architects may go. And never change your point of view' (Simon and Garfunkel - "Frank Lloyd Wright"). 13x12 inches.
37. ''Tis time that I grow wise, when all the world grows mad' (Thomas Randolph). 10x12 inches.
38. 'The company makes the feast' (Francis Bacon, Essays, 1596). 13x12 inches.
39. 'My love is fixed I will not range. I like my choice to well to change' (Inscription inside a 17th Century ring). 10x12 inches.
40. 'Many are the stars I see. But in my eyes no star like thee' (Inscription inside a 17th Century ring). 10x12 inches.
41. 'Love is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken' (Shakespeare - Sonnet No.116). 10x12 inches.
42. 'What! Has this thing appeared again tonight?' (Shakespeare - Hamlet). 10x12 inches.
43. 'There's a fascination frantic, in a ruin that's romantic' (W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado). 10x12 inches.
44. 'Whither tho goest, I will go' (Book of Ruth). 10x12 inches.
45. 'One feast, one house, one mutual happiness' (Shakespeare - Two Gentlemen of Verona). 13x12 inches.
46. 'Oh this learning, what a thing it is' (Shakespeare - The Taming of the Shrew). 10x12 inches.
47. 'Forbear not sowing because of birds' (George Herbert). 10x12 inches.
48. 'I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven' (Emily Dickinson). 10x12 inches.
49. 'All now is turned to jollity and game. To luxury and riot, feast and dance' (John Milton). 13x12 inches.
50. 'Picnic'. 8x10 inches.
51. 'Speak of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly' (Notice pinned to the door of the Aldine Press in 1515). 10x12 inches.
52. 'Chance favours the prepared mind' (Louis Pasteur). 10x12 inches.
53. 'Great welcome makes a merry feast' (Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors). 10x12 inches.
54. 'Trifles make the sum of life' (Dickens, David Copperfield). 10x12 inches.