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Biography
Tony and Barbara
White live and work on the historic Hafod Estate, Cwmystwyth, Mid Wales. They
are full time makers producing Raku fired studio pottery.
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Like many ceramic
practitioners today Tony did not set out to become a potter. His early
working life was in the light engineering industry; by 1979 this came to an
abrupt end with recession and redundancy.
Since 1972 he had been attending pottery
evening classes at his local college and during this period began to
acquire skills in hand building and throwing at the same time purchasing
his own equipment and pursuing a process of ceramic self-education.
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Tony then took the
post of ceramic technician and part- time adult education lecturer at this
college and remained there until 1983, when to fulfill his ambition to set
up his own pottery, producing domestic Stoneware, the family moved to
Wales.
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In 1986 he took another
technical post at the University Art Dept in Aberystwyth leaving there 1990. He set up his
present workshop at Cwmystwyth, where the family had moved to in 1987. With
new ideas and skills he began to produce figurative work, which was fired
using the Raku process
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It was an immediate
success, so much so that Barbara joined him in the studio to help manage the
ever-increasing demand for the work. The success of the work afforded him
time to visit the Joan Miro Foundation in Barcelona, which inspired the
decoration on his new work, vase type forms.
Tony White is a
professional member of the Craft Potters Association of Great Britain.
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