Elizabeth Fritsch
Elizabeth Fritsch | |
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Born | 1940 (age 83–84) |
Nationality | British |
Education | Royal College of Art |
Known for | Ceramics |
Website | http://www.elizabethfritsch.com |
Elizabeth Fritsch MA(RCA) CBE (born 1940) is a British studio potter. She is considered to be one of Britain's leading ceramicists since the 1970s.[1] Her pottery often contain influences from architecture, and often contains unusual coloring.[2] Fritsch studied harp and then piano at the Royal Academy of Music from 1958 to 1964, but later took up ceramics. She worked under Hans Coper at the Royal College of Art from 1968 to 1971. In 1985, she began her own studio in London, England.[3] Since her first show in 1972, Fritsch has had a number of one-person shows over the years. In 1996 was a finalist for the Jerwood Prize for Ceramics. Fritschs' work is represented in major collections and museums internationally and in Britain.[4]
Awards
- 1996 Shortlisted for Jerwood Prize
- 1995 Awarded CBE
- 1995 Elected Senior Fellowship, Royal College of Art
- 1993 Gold Medali, Visuelle Spiele, International Handwerksmesse München
- 1987 Bernard Leach Centenary Post Office Stamp issue with Hans Coper & Lucie Rie
- 1980 John Ruskin Bursary for Fictional Archaeology project
- 1976 Gold Medal, International Ceramics Competition, Sopot, Poland
- 1972 Prize Winner, Royal Copenhagen Jubilee
- 1970 Silver Medal Royal College of Art: Herbert Read Memorial Prize
Museum Collections
- National Museum of Wales, [5]
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Museum Bellerive , Zurich City Art Gallery, Bristol City Art Gallery, Manchester Crafts Advisory Committee, London Kusnst Industri Museet, Copenhagen Leeds Art Galleries, Lotherton Hall Musée Des Arts Décoratifs, Paris Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam Museum of Decorative Arts, Motreal Museum Für Kunst Und Gewerbe, Hamburg Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan National Ceramic Collection, Cobu Welsh National Collection, Aberystwyth Kunstsammlungen-Coburg, Germany Shigaraki Museum, Japan
Solo Exhibitions
2010 National Museum Cardiff, Wales, UK Dynamic Structures: Painted Vessels by Elizabeth Fritsch Oct 2 2010–Jan 2 2011 [6]
Featured a range of her most significant studio pottery and recently made pieces. Dynamic Structures: Painted Vessels also marked her 70th birthday. [7]
2008 Fine Art Society - London November 11th-December. [8]
2007 Retrospective, Bonhams, London 2007 Anthony Hepworth Gallery, Bath 2000 Metaphysical Vessels, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2000 Memory of Architecture, Part II, Besson Gallery, London 1998 Sea Pieces, Contemporary Applied Arts, London 1995-6 retrospective touring to Munich, Karlsruhe, Halle and Bellerive, Zurich 1995 Metaphysical Pots, Bellrive Museum 1994-5 Order and Chaos, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1994 Osiris Gallery, Brussels 1993-5 Vessels from Another World, Northern Centre for the Contemporary Arts, Sunderland, travelling to Aberdeen, Birmingham, Cardiff, London, Norwich, UK 1992-3 Retrospective, Pilscheur Fine Art, London 1991 Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany 1990 Cross Rhythms and Counterpoint, Edinburgh, Scotland 1978 Leeds Galleries, Temple Newsham; travelled to Glasgow, Bristol, Gateshead, Bolton, and V&A, London 1976 British Craft Centre, London 1974 Waterloo Place Gallery, London 1972 Bing and Grondahl, Copenhagen
Selected Group Exhibitions and Art Fairs
2008 Adrian Sassoon, The International Ceramics Fair & Seminar, London 2008 Adrian Sassoon, TEFAF, Maastricht, The Netherlands 2008 Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon, COLLECT, V&A Museum, London 2008 Adrian Sassoon, London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London 2007 Adrian Sassoon, The International Art + Design Fair, New York, USA 2007 Adrian Sassoon, The International Ceramics Fair & Seminar, London 2007 Contributor, 150 anniversary of the V&A, 150anniversary slideshow 2003-6 Contributor, various art fairs including :Collect, V&A; International Ceramics Fair, London; London Art Fair(Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon); SOFA, New York and Chicago (Joanna Bird); Florida International Art Fair (Redfern Gallery) 2003-4 Contributor, Saved – 100 years of the National Art Collections Fund, Hayward Gallery, London 2003 Contributor, Five Artists, Frank Loyd Gallery, Los Angeles International Biennale, USA 2003 Contributor, The Legacy of Modern Ceramic Art, part 2, Ceramic Art from an International Perspective, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu 2002 Contributor, Diaspora Cymreig, touring Welsh Art Centres 2001 Contributor, Jerwood Prize exhibition, Crafts Council, London, touring UK 2000 Contributor, Steninge International Ceramics, Sweden 2000 Contributor, Keramic Bienale, Lucerne, Switzerland 2000 Contributor, British Ceramics DK, Keramikmuseet Gimmerhus, Denmark 1999 Contributor, ‘Twenty Five Years of the Crafts Council’, V&A, London 1999 Contributor, ‘British Ceramics’, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1999 Contributor, Memory of Architecture, Galerie Marianne Heller, Heidelberg 1999 Contributor, ‘World wxhibition of Ceramics’, Steningen Palace, Sweden 1999 Contributor, ‘Dialogue in Clay’, Artizana Gallery, Cheshire 1998 Contributor, ‘Fifty Years of Craft’, Contemporary Applied Arts, London 1997 Contributor, 'The Art of Function' with Richard Smith and Richard Warholic 1997 Contributor, 'The Culture of the Stripe' , Munich 1996 Contributor, Jerwood Prize, Crafts Council touring to Heidelberg and Munich Contributor, Das Andere Gefass, Saarlandisches Kunstlerhaus, Saarbrucken 1993-6 Contributor, The Raw and the Cooked, Barbican Art Gallery, London, touring to MOMA, Oxford and Shigaraki, Japan 1992 Contributor to Keramiske Veje, Den Frie Gallery, Copenhagen 1987 The Stamp of Fame, Fischer Fine Art , London
External links
Bibliography
- Edward Lucie Smith Elizabeth Fritsch: Vessels from another World, Metaphysical pots Painted Stoneware, Bellew Publishing, 1993. ISBN 1857250982 ISBN 13 9781857250985
- Peter Dormer and David Cripps “Elizabeth Fritsch in Studio – A view”, In Studio Series, Bellew London , 1985. ISBN 13 9780947792046 ISBN 094779204X
- Elizabeth Fritsch, pots about music. Authors Elizabeth Fritsch, David Cripps, Leeds (England). City Art Gallery, David Queensberry, Alison Britton, Ian Bennett. Publisher Leeds Art Galleries, 1978, ASIN B0007AT9X2
- E. Cameron & P. Lewis, Potters on Pottery, Elizabeth Fritsch, pgs. 62-69 Evans Brothers, London 1976. ISBN 0312632800 / 0-312-63280-0
Publications
Dynamic Structures: Painted Vessels by Elizabeth Fritsch, published by the National Museum of Wales, October 2010, ISBN 978 0 7200 0611 7
Elizabeth Fritsch: The Fine Art Society, London, in association with Joanna Bird Pottery.Published by The Fine Art Society, in association with Joanna Bird Pottery, for the exhibition Elizabeth Fritsch, 12 to 27 November 2008, ISBN 978 0 905062 57 0
Studio: Ceramicists and their studios was an exhibition of photographs by Phil Sayer at the Ruthin Craft Centre. Philip Hughes and Amanda Fielding 2010 Published by Ruthin Craft Centre, ISBN 978 1 905865 25 3
Articles
- LAURA GASCOIGNE "Ahead of their time" © PROLITTERIS, ZURICH, The Spectator, SUNDAY 23 OCTOBER 2011
- Moira Vincentelli “Women & Ceramics, Gendered Vessels”, Manchester University Press, 2000, pg 249. ISBN 10 0719038405, ISBN 13 978 0719038402
- Garth Clark “The Potter’s Art”, Phaidon 1995, pgs 200-01. ISBN 10 0714832022, ISBN 13 978 0714832029
- John Houston The Abstract pot forms of expression and decoration by nine artist potters, Bellew Publishing 1991.
- Fischer Fine Art (1986) Nine Potters Bernard Leach, Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie, Michael Cardew, Hans Coper, Lucie Rie, Elizabeth Fritsch, Ewen Henderson, Elizabeth Raeburn, Claudi Casanovas’ Catalogue of an exhibition held at Fisher Fine Art, 1986. ASIN B001ON0RX2
- John Russell Taylor, Elizabeth Fritsch - Pots About Music 'Ceramic Review', 58 Jul/Aug 1979 pgs 30-33.
- J.D.H. Catleugh Recent Pots, Improvisations from Earth to Air, ‘Ceramic Review’, 44 Mar/Apr 1977 pg 7.
Broadcasts
BBC Private Passions, Classic Arts Production, On 14 April 2001 Michael Berkeley's guest was Elizabeth Fritsch
References
- ^ "Dynamic Structures: Painted Vessels by Elizabeth Fritsch". National Museum of Wales. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
- ^ "Elizabeth Fritsch Ceramics Collection". Prifysgol Aberystwyth University. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
- ^ Fritsch, Elizabeth. "Biography". Retrieved 23 November 2010.
- ^ "Elizabeth Fritsch". Galerie Besson. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
- ^ Cardiff Elizabeth Fritsch collection at the National Museum
- ^ Dynamic Structures: Painted Vessels by Elizabeth Fritsch. "What's On", National Museum Cardiff, UK, 27 Nov 2010. Retrieved on 2010-11-22.
- ^ Dynamic Structures: Painted Vessels by Elizabeth Fritsch, published by the National Museum of Wales, October 2010, ISBN 978 0 7200 0611 7
- ^ Elizabeth Fritsch: The Fine Art Society, London, in association with Joanna Bird Pottery. Published by The Fine Art Society, in association with Joanna Bird Pottery, for the exhibition Elizabeth Fritsch, 12 to 27 November 2008, ISBN 978 0 905062 57 0