JOSIE WALTER
22, Nan Gells Hill
Bolehill. Derbyshire. DE4 4GN
Tel 01629 823669 and josie@josiewalter.co.uk
EDUCATION:
1969 - 1972
1972 - 1973
1976 - 1979
1996 - 1999
BSc Anthropology 2(I), University College, London
PGCE in Social Studies, Leicester University
Ceramics (College Diploma – Distinction), Chesterfield College of Art
MA History of Ceramics, Staffordshire University
EMPLOYMENT:
1979
1980
1986
1986
1988 - 1994
1991
1992
1994-6
1996
1997
1998-to present
2002
2003
Set up workshop and retail outlet in Matlock, Derbyshire
Six months as repetition thrower Le Don Pottery, Auvergne, France.
Returned to Matlock workshop to concentrate on earthenware pots for cooking.
Moved workshop to Via Gellia Mill, Bonsall, Derbyshire.
Full Member of the Craft Potters Association.
Appointed Exhibitions Officer on Craft Potters Association Council, London.
Appointed Vice Chair of Craft Potters Association.
Appointed member of Grants Committee for Craft for East Midlands Arts.
Appointed September, Lecturer 0.5, Department of Historical & Theoretical Studies,
University of Derby
Visiting Lecturer at Bretton Hall, West Yorks on BA Fine Art (Ceramics)
Set up workshop at home.
Appointed Subject Leader in History and Theory of Design (0.75) University of
Derby
Visiting Lecturer at the Glas & Keramikskolen, Pa Bornholm, Denmark
April/May teaching Stage 1 Ceramics.
December teaching History of Ceramics to Stage 1, 2 and 3.
Lecturer in Historical and Theoretical Studies (0.75) in Division of Design and
Communications. Teaching split between BA (Hons) Sustainable Design and
BA(Hons) Illustration.
Curator of the Ballantyne Project (30 days per year)
RESEARCH:
1972
1979
1999
2000
Tracer on expedition to survey Palaeolithic Cave Engravings, Cantabrian Mountains,
Northern Spain.
College Thesis ‘Cartoon and Caricature’, History of Cartoon and Caricature in
graphics and clay.
MA Dissertation, Brampton Pots in the Kitchen Marketing and Consumption in the
Nineteenth Century at Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent.
‘Pots in the Kitchen’ commissioned by Crowood Press for Sept 2001
Published September 2002
STAFF DEVELOPMENT
2000-3
2001
2001
2001
2001
2002
2003
200
OCN Photography: Entry, Level 1, 2 & 3.
Photographing your own art work, West Dean College, Sussex.
Researching and writing Pots in the Kitchen funded by CASPAD (Research Centre
for Advanced Studio Practice in Art and Design, University of Derby)
Disability Equality: Disability awareness and Dyslexia in HE/FE
‘Psychological role of cartoons in war’, British Cartoon Centre, London.
‘Caricatures as Art’ Study Day, Birkbeck College, London.
Digital Processes, single module Dept. of Photography, University of Derby.
Web Page Design, Derby College (ongoing)
EXHIBITIONS: (Selected)
1979
1981
1984
1987
1992
1993
1994
1997
2000
2000
2001
2002
LSDC Distinction Show, London School of Furniture.
Crafts for Christmas, British Crafts Centre.
Dishes for Dishes, Monmouth and Chepstow.
New Members' Exhibition, CPA, London.
Derby Museum & Art Gallery.
Aberystwyth Arts Centre Showcase Exhibition
20 British Potters; Barcelona in conjunction with the Associacio de Catalunya
A Taste of Britain, Rufford Craft Centre.
Solo exhibition Contemporary Ceramics, London (May).
Talk of the Table, City Gallery, Leicester.
CASES - Drawing in Space, Josie Walter, Sue Halls, Neil Brownswood
April - Metropolitan University Faculty of Art and Design. (Touring exhibition)
Slipware, De Tiendschuur Tegelen Pottenbakkers Museum, Netherlands (May)
Three Potters - Rufford Craft Centre, Nottinghamshire (August)
1998 Le Monde Figuratif Galerie du Don, France
Slipware, Contemporary Ceramics, London (7 potters)
‘Autumn Fruits’, Gallery 48, Lavenham, Suffolk.
‘The Snake in the Garden : contemporary approaches to slipware’
Aberystwyth Arts Centre. International exhibition of 28 slipware potters, touring in
the UK and abroad.
Five British Potters in Jutland, Denmark
‘The Art of Throwing’, Rufford Craft Centre
‘Pots in the Kitchen’ Rufford Craft Centre, also to France, Denmark & Holland in 04.
‘Pots in the Kitchen’ Gallery of BC Ceramics, Vancouver.
COLLECTIONS:
Nottingham Castle,-Saltglaze colander.
Derby Museum & Art Gallery, Earthenware oval dish.
Hanley Museum, Stoke-on-Trent - dish, plate, 1999.
Faculty Collection, Manchester Metropolitan University, Large Bowl/Large Vase.
GALLERIES SUPPLIED (Sample)
Brewhouse Yard, Cirencester, Contemporary Ceramics, London. Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham.
Gallery St. Ives, Tokyo. Harley Gallery, Welbeck. Parkfields Gallery, Herts. Rufford Craft Centre,
Nottinghamshire. Spectrum Gallery, Wales.
CONSULTANCY:
1989
1993
1999
September 2000
2003
Cataloguing of the Collection of 20th Century Studio Ceramics, Sudbury Hall,
Derbys.
Trustee of the Ballantyne Collection, Derby.
Curating ‘Brampton Pots in the Kitchen’ an exhibition starting in Chesterfield June
1999 and touring in the East Midlands area to Mansfield Museum, Derby Museum
and Art Gallery, Rufford Craft Centre, Erewash Museum and Nottingham.
Curating ‘Below the Salt’, an international exhibition of contemporary salt /soda glaze
City Museum and Records Office, Portsmouth Museum, continuing to Castle Museum
Nottingham in November, December 2000
Curating ‘Pots in the Kitchen’, Rufford Craft Centre.
2003: PROJECTS IN PROGRESS
June
November
In conjunction with Rufford Craft Centre, organizing one day seminar for
‘Pots in the Kitchen’, with Mary Wondrausch (Potter), Peter Brears (Food Historian)
Richard Eaton (Director of Design, Denby Pottery) and Sophie Grigson (Cook and
Food Writer)
Organising one day symposium for the Ballantyne Collection Project, ‘Bernard Leach
And the Ballantyne Collection’, with Emmanuel Cooper, Barley Ruscoe and Phil
Rogers.
PUBLICATIONS:
Regular contributor to Ceramic Review and Aberystwyth Ceramic Series since 1990.
Own work illustrated and working methods described in many publications,
ie M&V Eden, (1999) Slipware, A&C Black
and NOUVEL OBJECT VI, published by Design House ung-gu, Seoul, Korea
1998
1999
2000
2002
‘Collecting, the Collection and the Collector. The Pinchen Collection of Studio
Pottery, in Northern Ceramic Society Journal, Vol. 15.
‘Brampton Pots in the Kitchen’, catalogue essay, University of Derby
‘Below the Salt’ catalogue, University of Derby.
‘Pots in the Kitchen’, Crowood Press
CONFERENCE PAPERS:
1995
1997
1999
2000
2001
Salt and Soda Too, Forest of Dean College, Paper - ‘The History of Saltglaze’.
‘Handmade Pots in the Kitchen, from Leach to the present day.’
Good Enough to Eat From : A Studio Pottery Conference at
Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, copy of text housed in the Conference Archive,
NEVAC, Bristol.
‘Dishwashers, a convenient solution to suds in the sink?
British Resistance to an Appliance of Science’, Design History Conference,
Nottingham.
‘Brampton Pots in the Kitchen’, Design History Conference, Portsmouth.
‘Brampton Pots - Is Function Back?’ at NCECA, South Carolina, U.S.2002
Historical Overview of the Art of Throwing, Rufford Craft Centre.