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A residency and solo exhibition at AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent. The work begins to track the history of Etruria Marl and the teapots affiliated with this red clay, the refinement of which was seen as a key catalyst to the industrialisation of the six towns that make up Stoke-on-Trent.
“Garth Clark, art critic and cfile.daily’s editor in chief, sees McIntyre’s research as a significant attempt to explore the mystery of achieving iconic status and how the quality and refinement that goes into such workmanlike objects is often taken for granted, unexplored and without any formal analysis as to why these vessels have been with us and kept their potency since 1695”. cfile.daily
Images by Glen Stoker
