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State Ceramics exists to foster and promote the advancement and improvement of general education in all aspects of the art of studio ceramics and the development of public appreciation of such art.

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The literary canon has grown since 2000… but huge gaps remain and the library on contemporary ceramics can best be symbolised by the colander

Garth Clark / Ceramics Art Foundation 2011

The entire paradigm of what ceramics is in our culture today is shifting at unprecedented speed. Ceramics in art is almost unrecognisable from two years ago. Overall, contemporary ceramics is going through a change of guard, more radically than anything the field has experienced in 150 years.