Pioneering Women
Grant Gibson | The Design Edit | 9th February 2021
Studio ceramics boasts few women luminaries like Lucie Rie. Recent auction results suggest other women may soon join her. Is gender a factor here? Maybe – the practical, sometimes rough hewn pieces of Bernard Leach, have fallen from market favour. Now there is a preference for the refined, delicate forms associated with women potters. Says one writer, in this “most feline” of art forms, “these objects just are”.