Pottymouth - A Pottery Podcast

May 29 2024

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Pottymouth is a pottery podcast. Open and frank conversations with people in the pottery industry, including potters, curators, collectors, technicians, studio mangers, writers, teachers and students. Celebrating difference, sharing in frustrations and successes, and revelling in the tricky bits of the creative process. Presented by Lara Lloyd. Content warning: Some swearwords may be heard in each episode.

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Episode 12 / VERRAN TOWNSEND - A Certain Stillness

Verran is a potter living and working in Totnes, Devon. He's takes his pots into the landscape and films them and he has a passion for teaching.

Episode 11 / DYLAN BOWEN - Finding The Way.

Dylan Bowen comes from a long line of potters and found a way to go from a very British tradition in slipware to a radically modern approach. In this episode we discuss that journey.

Episode 10 / RAPHAELA SECK - From Studio Manager to Developing your creative practice.

Raphaela aka Raphy is a full time potter living in Bristol. She started as a apprentice and went on to run a busy pottery studio in Devon. Now based in Bristol her practice is inspired by her connection to nature (Dartmoor in particular) Mythology and meaning making. Raphy teaches classes from her studio, workshops on the land using natural materials and primitive firing techniques

Episode 9 / FRAN SANDOVER - From Degree to Studio Manager.

Fran Sandover is a potter running a studio at Outside- a multi-use space, home to a cafe, pottery studio, surfboard shaping bay, on-site growing space and concrete skate bowl in South West Devon. Her work has a playful and industrial aesthetic and is evolving with her career as a studio manager, teacher and technician. In this episode we talk about her pathway from degree to studio

Episode 8 / SABINE NEMET - Wood Firing & Earning a Living.

Sabine is a wood firer that completed an apprenticeship as a thrower in East Germany in 1998 with Hans Joachim Grünert in Waldenburg(Sachsen) where she underwent a three year long training in producing domestic ware exclusively on the wheel and was then for the first time introduced to wood firing. In this episode we talk about wood firing and how she juggles approach to making an

Episode 7 / ANNA LAMBERT - Change & Adaptation.

Anna Lambert is a nationally recognised full time maker. She makes hand-built earthenware ceramics using various techniques including slab-building, modelling and painted slips. She has been making and selling work over many years and is the membership secretary at the Craft Potters Association (CPA). In this episode we talk about Anna’s approach to making and how her work has ch

Episode 6 / GAY WATSON - Collecting Ceramics & Embodied Attention.

Gay Watson is a writer concerned with the dialogue between Buddhist thought, psychotherapy and the Mind Sciences. She also lives with a huge amount of craft in her home including ceramics. She is the author of a number of books including A Philosophy of Emptiness (an exploration of ideas of emptiness from early Buddhism and Taoism and Greek thought through to contemporary philosoph

Episode 5 / KEVIN ROUFF Studio ThusThat - Industry & Sustainability.

A conversation with Kevin Rouff of Studio ThusThat, talking about Red Mud, a project that questions our notion of ‘waste’, and shows the unexpected value of these stigmatized materials in a world of finite resources. Working with factories and research labs, Bauxite aka Red Med, a byproduct residue of the alumina industry, is transformed into ceramic bodies and glazes.

Episode 4 / JODIE CROOK-GILES Career choices & energy use.

A conversation with Jodie Crook Giles, owner of the smallest pottery shop in the world (maybe) during the Mud & Water course at Coombe Farm Studios. In this episode Jodie talks about career choices and energy use.

Episode 3 / TIM ANDREWS Apprenticeships & Exhibitions.

Tim Andrews is a raku master potter. This conversation takes place whilst he's teaching at Coombe Farm Studios and just after his solo show at The Contemporary Ceramics Centre in London titled Linear Non Linear.