Join us for a talk by Jennifer Lee, followed by a conversation with Jennifer Lee, Helen Ritchie (Associate Curator, Fitzwilliam Museum) and independent curator Sarah Griffin. Chaired by Andrew Nairne, Director, Kettle’s Yard.
£5 (free for concessions), booking recommended
Concessions apply to full time students aged 16+ and those receiving universal credit or income support benefits.
About Jennifer Lee
Jennifer Lee was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in 1956. From 1975 to 1979 she studied ceramics and tapestry at Edinburgh College of Art.
Jennifer Lee is a major presence to have emerged from studio ceramics of the 1970s, whose practitioners dismantled notions of clay as a medium confined to functional forms and domestic environments.
Lee’s hand-built unglazed stoneware pots are characterised by their smooth surfaces and rich colours. Beginning with a pinch pot base, which is built upon by coiling lengths of clay, the roots of her process lie in the earliest forms of clay making.
In 2018 Lee won the LOEWE CRAFT PRIZE, an award initiated by Jonathan Anderson.
About Helen Ritchie
Helen Ritchie is Associate Curator at The Fitzwilliam Museum and is responsible for researching, interpreting and curating the modern Applied Arts collections. She was the sole curator of recent exhibition Designers and Jewellery 1850-1940: Jewellery and Metalwork from The Fitzwilliam Museum (2018) and author of the accompanying catalogue, and was the organising curator of exhibitions, Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery, in partnership with Yale Center for British Art, and Flux: Parian Ware at The Fitzwilliam Museum, in partnership with artist Matt Smith (both 2018).
About Sarah Griffin
Sarah Griffin is an independent curator specialising in ceramics and applied arts, with a background in modern and contemporary art. She has regularly curated exhibitions for New Art Centre, Salisbury, since 2010, and organised Modern Makers at Chatsworth in 2013.
