Book Review Studio Ceramics by Alun Graves

Studio Ceramics

Alun Graves Foreword by Tanya Harrod

Published 6 April 2023, with 919

Illustrations £65 hardback

Published by Thames & Hudson

A magnificent catalogue of the V&A's collection of twentieth-century and contemporary British ceramics.

In his introductory essay, Alun Graves, Senior Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, provides all lovers of ceramics – collectors, practitioners, historians and those interested in modern and contemporary art and crafts – with the historical context, documenting the medium’s shift into an expressive, and sometimes interventionist, art form.

An extensive visual catalogue, Studio Ceramics is the primary reference for 20thcentury and contemporary British studio ceramics, and a record of the national collection of British ceramics held at the V&A.

Contemporary ceramicists working in Britain, including Rachel Kneebone, Grayson Perry and Edmund de Waal, are part of a broader international group of artists experimenting with clay, considering how it intersects and works in dialogue with other art forms and with culture at large.