1592999753000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-126938 1755021867947 1755000704000 1755021865560 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-126938 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/126938 269d8603-20f8-3cf9-81f7-215d87727afe 14 reference term-42825 adlib-term-42825 858e5d17-b554-33d6-936f-25b16f72f39d stoneware reference term-42692 adlib-term-42692 68c2b295-0e5f-3e4e-ac86-2aebb8653b91 Studio Ceramics blue and grey reference term-32657 adlib-term-32657 48738423-5a06-33af-bb0f-e0e48e864331 paint Decoration Length cm 47.5 Bottom Length cm 52 Top Width cm 31 Base At Widest Applied Arts Slab-built stoneware vessel with a flat base, and walls constructed of seven pieces of different sizes some curved and some angular, joined together, and coloured blue and grey. Two of the exterior pieces are blue and five grey, and three of the interior are coloured blue and four grey. reference exhibition-1923 adlib-exhibition-1923 9cddd881-f835-329d-87a6-d01d365bfb8e Collect C.8-2006 1 accession number C.8-2006 126938 priref 126938 2006 2006 2006-03-08 The Fitzwilliam Museum entry form number 810 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/126938 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/126938 on one end of the base painted in black Eastman 2006 signature and date reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Gift of Nicholas and Judith Goodison through the National Art Collections Fund reference agent-156032 adlib-agent-156032 3aded83c-6f5c-39b8-a50c-07f712e01b2c Goodison, Nicholas and Judith 2006 2006 2006-03-06 given 2006 CE 2006 dated 2006 potter reference agent-173051 adlib-agent-173051 3b06484c-d0ec-33f9-81d3-d19c0378f40f Eastman, Ken Text from object entry in A. Game (2016) ‘Contemporary British Crafts: The Goodison Gift to the Fitzwilliam Museum’. London: Philip Wilson Publishers: Ken Eastman studied at Edinburgh College of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. He established his studio in Shropshire in 1980 and began to develop a series of abstract, slab-built clay vessels inspired, in part, by an interest in the experimental clay work by mid-twentieth-century American artists such as Peter Voulkos (1924–2002) and Viola Frey (1933–2004). Eastman’s work is built, as with abstract painters of a similar period, through intense engagement with material and process as a way of focusing thought. The slabs of clay, once rolled flat, are pressmoulded against different objects to create shape and texture before being carefully assembled into vessels which are then given multiple firings to create the requisite depth of colour. Improvising and developing form with clay in this way tests the boundaries of the possible (at any moment the changing state of the clay can destroy the work) but it is from this intense material engagement that the resonant sculptural pieces appear. Eastman’s poetic mastery of form has gained him international acclaim, winning an Arts Foundation award in 1998 and the gold medal at the World Ceramic Biennial in Korea in 2001. In 2009, he developed a limitededition range of designs with Royal Crown Derby, winning an Art into Industry award in the same year. ‘You can feel in Eastman’s pots his many ways of handling time: the painstaking preparatory stages; the quick reactive manoeuvres of assembly; the steady accumulation of colour; the effects of depth achieved through multiple firings.’ -Glenn Adamson, Director, Museum of Arts and Design, New York. Ken Eastman: ‘I wanted to get a rambling, patched-together difficulty into the work – as if no-one would ever intend something to be that way, but when you saw it, it was somehow right. I think I was originally painting the form in order to clarify it but I want the fields of colour to move through and across the vessel space, so colour becomes a fundamental content of the work rather than a superficial aspect of it.’ reference term-109891 adlib-term-109891 ad6efeb2-90e2-3107-ada3-8348ed09c40f 21st Century, Early reference term-107700 adlib-term-107700 8f5360fb-b262-3ae9-8942-b81cc0e3e848 Elizabeth II reference term-115860 adlib-term-115860 0bc68554-62a5-3bff-849f-72a5eb606249 literal England England country literal Herefordshire Herefordshire region Herefordshire reference term-42825 adlib-term-42825 858e5d17-b554-33d6-936f-25b16f72f39d stoneware Height cm 32.5 reference media-196698 adlib-media-196698 cfd7fd21-fff4-3487-b71a-bd9a51c2cf83 jpeg aa/aa33/large_C_8_2006_200703_adn21_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 791 width pixels 1024 1702926544927 1 image jpeg aa/aa33/mid_C_8_2006_200703_adn21_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 386 width pixels 500 1702926544927 1 image jpeg aa/aa33/C_8_2006_200703_adn21_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 792 width pixels 1025 1702926544927 1 image jpeg aa/aa33/preview_C_8_2006_200703_adn21_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 193 width pixels 250 1702926544927 1 image 0 media image reference term-89198 adlib-term-89198 9b93ca03-061f-3c1c-a79f-707511cc4791 vessel history note purchased by the donors from Barrett Marsden Gallery at the Collect exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, held 9-13 February 2006 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Publ. p. 106, brief entry, no illustration 106 reference publication-200002113 adlib-publication-200002113 868f92a8-9dbc-3fbf-858d-edd61a52d928 5858, Nicholas and Judith Goodison Gift, Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum Ref. Ken Eastman. 102-07 reference publication-7736 adlib-publication-7736 c6c68bba-cac9-3f9e-b511-a36911c0345d Modern British Potters and their Studios Publ. pp. 178-9, no. 69, object description, illustration, maker's biography and quote, and quote from the director of the Museum of Art and Design in New York no. 69 178-79 reference publication-8258 adlib-publication-8258 71d79ea2-2385-305e-9044-fbb0cde9ffe7 Contemporary British Crafts: The Goodison Gift to The Fitzwilliam Museum reference term-117337 adlib-term-117337 4384df20-5604-3ac1-aff2-e396ed3bf20d Contemporary Craft

reference term-89198 adlib-term-89198 9b93ca03-061f-3c1c-a79f-707511cc4791 vessel

vessel slab-built stonewarevessel with a flat base, and walls constructed of seven pieces of different sizes some curved and some angular, joined together, and coloured blue and grey with slip and oxides reference term-120106 adlib-term-120106 3f0f1333-3fd0-3cf3-9df5-b126d63c9c64 slab-building blue and grey reference term-106226 adlib-term-106226 194567f2-2bcd-3446-ae31-652386611815 painting object OBJECT