The RJ Lloyd Collection: Explorations and Responses

RJ Lloyd 系列：探索与回应

• 批准号: 2092308
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Bath Spa University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2092308
• 关键词: RJ; Lloyd; Collection; Explorations; Responses

The project will explore aspects of the heritage of the North Devon pottery industry through contemporary artistic practice. A key theme (and one that differentiates it from other projects) is to question how such a study can reflect upon and communicate the key values of a tradition to modern audiences. The PhD will be based upon the longstanding institutional and individual relationships between the Burton Art Gallery & Museum, Bideford and Bath School of Art and Design, Bath Spa University (BSAD); relationships that are being codified into a formal Memorandum of Understanding between our institutions. The studentship will explore the RJ Lloyd collection of North Devon Pottery at the Burton Museum & Art Gallery, Bideford. The research activity is enveloped within Torridge Council's planning for expanding the public use of the museum's archives and collections and for seeking their formal designation as of pre-eminent national and international significance.Social and cultural historians, historians of art and design and archaeologists and ethnographers, acknowledge the historical significance of the North Devon Pottery industry. It is far less well understood by the public today and a central objective of the collaborative project is to help address this lack of understanding. North Devon is a relatively isolated area by land, but from earliest times it was accessible to the Bristol Channel and beyond through its ports at Bideford, Barnstaple and Appledore. It was through these maritime links extending as far as the Caribbean and eastern seaboard of North America that the pottery of North Devon rose to significance in the 17th century. Work by the Smithsonian Institution has demonstrated the extent of the trade and the importance of the North Devon industry in understanding the development of international trade in the Western hemisphere. The output of the industry was mainly utilitarian in nature but the production of sgraffito-decorated wares, and in particular the distinctive highly decorated harvest jugs and relief- moulded pattern tiles have also come to be seen as distinctive of the North Devon tradition. It is likely that this decorated tradition was a catalyst for the significance of the area as a major centre for Arts and Crafts movement activity during the late 19th century when pottery firms such as Brannam, Lauder and Baron produced 'art wares' on a large scale alongside traditional potters who transitioned into art pottery and then studio pottery.This studentship centres on a collection of approximately 500 ceramic artefacts spanning 300 years. A key theme emerging from the collection is the way that potters working in the North Devon tradition have continually interpreted and reinterpreted its qualities whilst retaining common stylistic and utilitarian themes that have kept the tradition alive. The student will explore what this means to the contemporary ceramist. The main medium of response will be clay but it is expected that the student will utilise the wide-ranging technical facilities of BSAD to stretch the boundaries and possibilities of the response. Two tutors based at Bath School of Art and Design and the Visual Arts Manager at the Burton will support the studentship. The student will have access to permanent studio space at BSAD as well as the technical facilities and technician support of one of the major centres for ceramic education in the United Kingdom. The specialist art and design library will be a significant resource for the student. At the Burton the student will be provided with public-facing studio facilities that will allow the student the opportunity to explore and develop methods of communicating the key themes of the North Devon Pottery tradition to a modern audience composed of both the indigenous population and tourists.

该项目将通过当代艺术实践探索北德文郡陶器工业遗产的各个方面。一个关键的主题（也是区别于其他项目的主题）是质疑这样一个研究如何能够反思并向现代观众传达传统的关键价值观。博士学位将基于伯顿美术馆和博物馆，比德福德和巴斯温泉大学艺术与设计学院（BSAD）之间的长期机构和个人关系;这些关系正在被编入我们机构之间的正式谅解备忘录。该奖学金将在比德福德的伯顿博物馆和艺术画廊探索北德文郡陶器的RJ劳埃德收藏。这项研究活动被托里奇理事会的计划所包围，以扩大博物馆档案和藏品的公众使用，并寻求其作为卓越的国家和国际意义的正式指定。社会和文化历史学家，艺术和设计历史学家，考古学家和民族志学家，承认北德文郡陶器工业的历史意义。今天，公众对它的理解远远不够，合作项目的中心目标是帮助解决这种缺乏理解的问题。北德文郡是一个相对孤立的陆地地区，但从最早的时候起，它就可以通过比德福德、巴恩斯特普尔和阿普尔多的港口进入布里斯托海峡。正是通过这些海上联系延伸到加勒比海和北美东海岸，北德文郡的陶器在世纪变得重要起来。史密森学会的工作表明了贸易的程度和北德文郡工业在理解西半球国际贸易发展方面的重要性。该行业的产出主要是实用的性质，但sgraffito装饰的产品，特别是独特的高度装饰的收获罐和浮雕成型的瓷砖也被视为北德文郡传统的特色。很可能，这种装饰的传统是一个催化剂的重要性，该地区作为一个主要的中心，艺术和手工艺运动活动在世纪后期，当陶器公司，如布兰南，Lauder和Baron与传统陶艺家一起大规模生产“艺术品”，这些传统陶艺家过渡到艺术陶艺，然后是工作室陶艺。跨越了三百年一个关键的主题出现在收集的方式，陶工在北德文郡传统的工作，不断解释和重新解释其质量，同时保留共同的风格和实用的主题，使传统活着。学生将探索这对当代陶艺家意味着什么。反应的主要媒介将是粘土，但预计学生将利用BSAD的广泛技术设施来扩展反应的边界和可能性。巴斯艺术与设计学院的两名导师和伯顿的视觉艺术经理将为学生提供支持。学生将有机会获得BSAD的永久工作室空间，以及英国主要陶瓷教育中心之一的技术设施和技术支持。专业艺术和设计图书馆将是学生的重要资源。在伯顿的学生将提供面向公众的工作室设施，这将使学生有机会探索和发展沟通北德文郡陶器传统的关键主题的方法，以现代观众组成的土著居民和游客。