I've been watching The Great Pottery Throwdown, and each week I am captivated by the technical challenge—which might be a set of three different-sized flower pots or a perfect globe or six identical plates, etc. It's always demonstrated by one of the two main hosts/judges, Keith Bymer Jones. So I thought I'd search him out on YouTube, see if there are any representative features on him. And yes! Of course. But it turns out, he's more than just a potter. He seems to be a British sensation.
Here are a couple of the more pottery-focused features I enjoyed:
And then there's this:
On the episode I watched this evening, the special challenge was a dozen (ceramic) roses, and the special judge was Paul Cummins, who in 2014, together with Tom Piper and 300 ceramicists, created an installation at the Tower of London commemorating the start of WWI called Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, featuring a bazillion ceramic poppies—or to be exact, 888,246, each representing a British fatality in that war. Here are some photos:
It's always so thrilling to see passion in action. No mattter what the medium.
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