Potters of the studio pottery movement, in which a single artist designs and makes each pot, and of the Japanese mingei folk craft movement that valued plain useful wares. A potter belongs here when the cited article names studio pottery or mingei. It excludes industrial ceramic makers and modernist ceramic sculptors. Their work centers on hand-thrown stoneware, glazes fired in kilns the potter controls, and plain useful forms, often with links between Japan, Britain and the United States, and a potter is placed here by the movement the cited article names.
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Kawai Kanjiro (Wikipedia)
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Kawai Kanjirō (河井 寬次郎; 24 August 1890, in Yasugi, Shimane, 18 November 1966) was a Japanese potter and a key figure in mingei (Japanese folk art) and studio pottery movements, which included Bernard Leach, Shōji Hamada, Kenkichi Tomimoto, Shikō Munakata, Keisuke Serizawa, and Tatsuzō Shimaoka, among others.
Wikipedia: Bernard Leach
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He is regarded as the "Father of British studio pottery".
Wikipedia: Shoji Hamada
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He had a significant influence on studio pottery of the twentieth century, and a major figure of the mingei (folk-art) movement, establishing the town of Mashiko as a pottery centre.
Wikipedia: Warren MacKenzie
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Warren MacKenzie (February 16, 1924, December 31, 2018) was an American craft potter and is often referred to as the "master" or "father" of the American ceramic art in the mingei tradition.
Lucie Rie - Wikipedia
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Dame Lucie Rie, (16 March 1902-1 April 1995) (German pronunciation: [lʊtsiː ʀiː]) was an Austrian-born, independent, British studio potter.
Michael Cardew (Wikipedia)
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Michael Ambrose Cardew (1901-1983), was an English studio potter who worked in West Africa for twenty years.
Wikipedia: Hans Coper
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Hans Coper (8 April 1920-16 June 1981) was an influential German-born British studio potter.
Wikipedia: Magdalene Odundo
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Dame Magdalene Anyango Namakhiya Odundo (born 1950) is a Kenyan-born British studio potter, who now lives in Farnham, Surrey, England.
Wikipedia: William Staite Murray
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William Staite Murray (1881-1962) was an English studio potter.
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