I have recently come across an artist whose work I think is amazingly good. His name is Alexander Deineka. He was a Russian, born to a railway worker. He was a revolutionary, and member of the ‘October’ association of artists. I haven’t been able to find out much about his life under Stalin, but he [...]
Fascinating series on Radio 4 this week. Whatever Happened To The Teapots by Roger Law, of Spitting Image. Apparently he went first to Stoke-on-Trent (the birthplace of the English ceramic industry) in the 80s to have a Thatcher tea pot produced by Moorland Pottery — still a thriving small potbank. (Moorland features in my project [...]