PRESS RELEASE
16/12/16

‘Clay: That Continuous Material'

Exhibition 25 March to 27 August 2017 | Preview 24 March 2017, 6-8pm

Clay is the most amazing natural material. When wet, it can be moulded by hand and machine to make anything you can imagine. By firing dry clay in the kiln, it is transformed into a hard stone-like material. Because clay is so flexible and so readily found, people have been using it as a material for many thousands of years.

‘Clay: That Continuous Material' is an exciting new Leach Pottery exhibition taking a closer look at the material we use every day. The story of clay will be told across the Leach Pottery site, from the pioneering early days of the Leach Pottery, which made its own clay using materials delivered over the wall, to how clay is formed and its place in Cornwall's geology.

The exhibition offers a mix of fun and educational family activities, new visitor materials in the Old Pottery, and an exhibition about clay in the Cube Gallery. The exhibition is further enriched by Aaron Angell's residency in conjunction with our partners at Tate St Ives: he will be using the Leach Pottery as a base for making new ceramics.

Angell established the Troy Town Art Pottery, in London, and is co-curating the Tate St Ives March 2017 opening exhibition ‘That Continuous Thing: Artists and the Ceramics Studio, 1920 - Today'.

For further information contact Leach Pottery, Higher Stennack, St. Ives, Cornwall TR26 2HEoffice@leachpottery.comTel: 01736 799703www.leachpottery.com

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NOTES FOR EDITORS

Leach Pottery

The Leach Pottery in St Ives founded in 1920 by Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada is among the most respected and influential potteries in the world. Today the Leach Pottery is a charitable trust that continues this historic legacy through a working production pottery, museum, exhibitions spaces, and a learning & participation studio. The Leach Pottery is managed by the Bernard Leach (St Ives) Trust Ltd, a registered charity founded in 2005 reg. no 1111263. The primary objectives of the trust are to further the development of studio pottery, provide training in the art, craft and making of pottery and to advance the public education of the life and work of Bernard Leach and his circle.

For further press information or Leach Pottery enquiries please contact Libby Buckley, Director, Leach Pottery, Higher Stennack, St. Ives, Cornwall TR26 2HEdirector@leachpottery.comTel: 01736 799703www.leachpottery.com