The RJ Lloyd Collection: Explorations and Responses

该项目将通过当代艺术实践探索北德文郡陶瓷业遗产的各个方面。一个关键的主题(也是区别于其他项目的一个主题)是质疑这样的研究如何能够向现代受众反映和传达传统的关键价值观。博士学位将建立在伯顿美术馆和博物馆、拜德福德和巴斯温泉大学(BSAD)巴斯艺术与设计学院之间的长期机构和个人关系的基础上；这些关系正在被编纂成两个机构之间的正式谅解备忘录。该奖学金将在拜德福德的伯顿博物馆和美术馆探索北德文陶器的RJ·劳埃德收藏。托里奇议会计划扩大公众对博物馆档案和藏品的使用，并寻求将其正式指定为具有突出的国家和国际意义。社会和文化历史学家、艺术和设计历史学家以及考古学家和民族志学者承认北德文郡陶器行业的历史意义。如今，公众对它的理解要少得多，而合作项目的一个核心目标是帮助解决这种缺乏理解的问题。北德文郡在陆地上是一个相对与世隔绝的地区，但从最早的时候起，它就可以通过拜德福德、巴恩施泰博和阿普雷奥尔的港口到达布里斯托尔海峡和更远的地方。正是通过这些延伸到加勒比海和北美东海岸的海上联系，北德文郡的陶器在17世纪变得重要起来。史密森学会的工作证明了贸易的范围和北德文郡工业在了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功利性的，但涂鸦装饰器皿的生产，特别是独特的高度装饰的收获罐和浮雕图案瓷砖的生产也被视为北德文郡传统的独特之处。这一装饰传统很可能是19世纪末该地区作为主要工艺美术运动中心的重要性的催化剂，当时Brannam、Lauder和Baron等陶器公司与转型为艺术陶器和工作室陶器的传统陶工一起大规模生产“艺术品”。这项研究集中在大约500件陶瓷文物的收藏上，这些陶器跨越300年。这些藏品中出现的一个关键主题是，在北德文郡传统中工作的陶工们不断地解释和重新解释它的品质，同时保留了保持传统活力的共同风格和功利主义主题。学生将探索这对当代陶艺家意味着什么。主要的反应媒介将是粘土，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博物馆的视觉艺术经理将为学生提供支持。学生将有权使用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员支持。专业的艺术和设计图书馆将是学生的重要资源。在伯顿，学生将被提供面向公众的工作室设施，使学生有机会探索和开发向由土著居民和游客组成的现代观众传达北德文郡陶器传统的关键主题的方法。

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.