PROFESSOR TANYA HARROD (ASSOCIATE)

The past year has been dominated by continuing research for a biography of the studio potter Michael Cardew (1901-83) for Yale University Press, principally writing up material gathered on visits to Australia, the United
States, Ghana and Nigeria.

 

I am currently planning a monograph on the Ann Stokes
(one of the few contemporary potters to find a committed following in the fine art world). I am also working on a study of the meaning of the handmade in modern times for Reaktion Books. Glenn Adamson, Edward S. Cooke and
myself have been putting together the first numbers of The Journal of Modern Craft to be launched by Berg in Spring 2008.

 

I am founder member of Think Tank: A European Initiative for the Applied Arts (www.thinktank04.eu) which meets annually in Gmunden, Austria.

 

Recent Publications:

• 'Studios, Academies and Workshops: Ceramic Education from the mid-nineteenth century to World War Two' in (ed) Garth Clark, Ceramic Millennium: Critical Writings on Ceramic History, Theory and Art, NCAD Press, 2006;
• 'The applied arts and the poetics and politics of digital technology in (ed) Sandra Alfoldy, Neocraft: Modernity and the Crafts, The Press of Nova Scotia
  College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS, 2007
• 'The Vessel and Twentieth Century Ceramics' in (eds) Janice Helland and Sandra Alfoldy, Craft in Space: Architecture, Interiors and Decoration, Ashgate, Aldershot, Hants
  (forthcoming).
• Exhibition catalogue essays include 'Traumgefässe/Dream Vessels' in Form im Wandel: Gegenwartskeramik aus Österreich, MAK, Wien
  Austria, 2006
• 'Technological Enchantment' in (ed) Laurie Britton-Newell, Out of the Ordinary: 21st Century Craft, V&A Publications 2007.
• I've also written substantial reviews for the Burlington Magazine(on the V&A's Modernism and Surreal Things) and for the Times Literary Supplement (on Allen Lane, on sculpture and furniture and on new art from China.
• I have just edited our 4th publication - a series of papers on the topic of 'The Gift' (Gmunden 2008).