About

Cone Ten and descending… Takes its title from the book Cone Ten Down: a history of studio ceramics in NZ 1945-80. Aimed for all interested, from skilled practitioners to start-up collectors, it will provide a contemporary link for all with some focus upon ceramics and intends not to set the world on fire but to spread the word, start healthy debate, challenge thinking and maybe change some attitudes via all or any of the following:

• News, views and opinion
• Interesting, or otherwise, exhibitions currently featuring ceramics.
• New practitioners with something to say.
• Old practitioners with something new to say.
• Critical texts around the ceramics scene in New Zealand and occasionally beyond.
• Reviews of books around/including ceramic practices.

Produced by Moyra Elliott and a small team of colleagues with varying involvements, skills and talents, Cone Ten and descending… welcomes reactions, comments and original texts of any nature that primarily focus upon practices in clay.  We promise not to edit unless some class action would be imminent.

Moyra Elliott is an independent writer and curator in ceramics. Recent projects are: Contributions to a Lark Ceramic Publications review of the First Decade of the 21st C.; Curation of the Taiwan International Ceramics Biennale 2010; Participation in the 2010 European Ceramics Symposium as panellist; Participation in Think-Tank meeting 2010, Presenter at Critical Santa Fe, a symposium on critical writing in ceramics 2010; Publication of Cone Ten Down co-written with Dr Damian Skinner on studio ceramic history in New Zealand – a finalist in the NZ Post Book Awards 2010. Current projects: research towards a second book on ceramic history in NZ and a second international curatorial project for Taiwan.  

 

Cone Ten and descending… welcomes comments and contribution.
Submissions for any of these can be anonymous for the publication if preferred – your secret is safe with me.

Please send any submissions/ideas to…email – moyra@pl.net

 

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