Ben Brierley

Demonstration and Lecture,
Sunday February 8th 2009

Mundford Village Hall
10.00am Coffee
10.30am Lecture and Demonstration
12.30pm Lunch
3.30pm Tea and finish
Members and friends welcome.

Ben Brierley is gaining a national and international reputation as one of the most innovative and technically knowledgeable of today's woodfirers. Ben's work includes mugs, jugs and platters but he is parhaps best known for his bottles, as pictured right.

It would be easy to become consumed by the woodfiring process as an end in itself but Ben's work displays a marriage of form and surface that easily justifies his use of the anagama kiln as a decorating tool.

Ben has been a technical tutor in ceramics at Loughborough University for over 10 years and has written extensively on Anagama firing in Ceramic Review and elsewhere. Locally, you may know him from his involvement with the Anagama kiln at Wysing Arts which he fires with Stephen Parry among others.

Ben maintains an excellent website providing a wealth of information: www.ben-brierley-woodfired-ceramics.co.uk

For a general idea about the format of our demonstration days, click here.

Directions

Mundford is at the junction of the A134 and A1065, north of Thetford.
If someone remembers, there will be Anglian Potters signs to direct you to the village hall, however the hall is visible from the main road, surrounded by sports fields. Turn into the village from the A134/A1065 junction roundabout and then take the first right.

See Multimap, the village hall is on St Leonards Street.