Designer, Senior Lecturer and maker. MA Ceramics Course Leader at Staffordshire University

Joined March 2020
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Ed Austin retweeted
⏰ Only one weekend left to apply for our Clay Museum Artist. You will be a part of the Clay Museum programme and lead a series of workshops at the @PotteriesMuseum. Freelance contract- 33 days (Aug 2023-Mar 2024) Fee: £5775 Deadline: 12 noon, 14 Aug 2023 Apply ⬇️
🔔 Want to work for BCB? We're recruiting an artist to lead a series of interventions at the @PotteriesMuseum as part of #ClayMuseum. Fee: £5575 Contract: Freelance – 33 days from Aug 2023 – Mar 2024 Deadline: 12 noon, 14 Aug 2023 Apply ➡️ ow.ly/LafE50PbHfZ #LetsCreate
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Another top notch ep of @Channel4 @PotteryThrow filmed just up the road from us @StaffsUni in #stokeontrent #potterythrowdown #ceramics #clay #gladstonepotterymuseum To find out about our Amazing Ceramics courses in the heart of the potteries visit staffs.ac.uk
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Big thanks to MA students and Ed for supporting this @EdAustinCeramic
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First away day with the recruitment, admissions, partnerships and @staffsunildn colleagues today. Exciting direction and strategy conversions from @SapreenaKumari and @SpatialityJones. Finished off the day in the @PFCstaffsuni with fab MA Ceramics students!
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20 Oct 2022
First away day with the recruitment, admissions, partnerships and @staffsunildn colleagues today. Exciting direction and strategy conversions from @SapreenaKumari and @SpatialityJones. Finished off the day in the @PFCstaffsuni with fab MA Ceramics students!
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Great to see this. Our #ProductDesign course, now in the UK's Top3 has proudly placed #Ceramics back in the title: BA (Hons) Product, Furniture, Ceramics @PFCstaffsuni flying the flag with our Ceramics MA @StaffsUni with @EdAustinCeramic #stokeontrent #design @staffsuni_dta
Excellent series of articles around the piqued interest in ceramics in the latest edition of @StaffsUni @StaffsAlumni Horizon magazine starting with Future-Proofing Pottery.
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Excellent series of articles around the piqued interest in ceramics in the latest edition of @StaffsUni @StaffsAlumni Horizon magazine starting with Future-Proofing Pottery.
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⁦@StaffsUni @EdAustinCeramic⁩: Modern ceramics factories are much more similar to car factories than … the Wedgwood of 70 years ago. In a modern factory like ⁦@churchill1795⁩ or ⁦@WadeCeramics⁩ they use industrial robots. theguardian.com/artanddesign…
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Pottery started 300 years before Josiah Wedgwood with the Adams Brothers. Read here <iframe id="b2lembedFrame" width="1002" height="752" frameborder="0" align="middle" src="book2look.com/embed/rVhiCkUa…"></iframe>

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Fantastic presentations of a joint project between our first years and MA ceramics to design a brick pavilion for the BCB! @BCBfestival @SoTCityCouncil @PFCstaffsuni
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The maiden voyage of our new clay 3D printer! Analogue meets digital; craft and modern manufacturing go hand in hand! @staffsuni_dta @PFCstaffsuni @EdAustinCeramic @BCBfestival
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Awesome day today! ED and Dan got our Delta Wasp 40100 clay printer layering up some of the students designs in brick clay! @EdAustinCeramic
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Having worked closely with both @PMAGCollections and @GladstoneMuseum we appreciate fully the role they play in #StokeOnTrent and its ceramic heritage. BCB will be responding to the budget consultation. Have your say and submit your feedback via stoke.gov.uk/forms/form/141/…

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Sign away folks ⬇️ Stoke on Trent City Council: Keep Stoke on Trent’s Pottery Museums open - Sign the Petition! chng.it/mxhXVm6S via @UKChange

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Stunned to hear this… How can this happen?? Stoke turns its back on pottery heritage with curator redundancies ish.re/vgmOGLbfp#2 # via @PMAGCollections

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Welcoming our international agents today to Ceramics! Dave, Ed and Prof Neil talked about the importance of analogue and craft, together with the innovative use of digital technology. @staffsuni_dta @StaffsUni @neil_brownsword @EdAustinCeramic @SpatialityJones
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Excellent collaboration between our MA Ceramics course and Kasama in Japan, featured on NKK TV! Hopefully a physical experience next time! @staffsuni_dta @StaffsUni @SpatialityJones (Screen grabs©️NHK)
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1 Oct 2021
At my first hybrid participative event. Very important launch of National Association Ceramic Educators (NACE) to support the diversity of ceramic education from individual to institution. Technology works brilliantly and I'm glad to be on a campus in digital kiln @StaffsUni
Check out "National Association of Ceramic Educators (NACE) Launch Meeting" on Eventbrite! Date: Fri, 1 Oct, 14:00 Location: The Digital Kiln, 5th Floor Mellor Building, Staffordshire University eventbrite.co.uk/e/national-…
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