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Elizabeth Fritsch MA(RCA) CBE
Elizabeth Fritsch (b.1940) is an internationally known ceramic artist and British studio potter .Since the seventies Elizabeth Fritsch has been one of the most influential artistic figures in British ceramics. She makes unique hand built vessels with strong architectonic qualities, arranged subtly in groups designed to highlight geometric patterns and shapes. Fritsch studied harp and piano at the Royal Academy of Music (1958-1964) but eventually took up ceramics working under Hans Coper at the Royal College of Art (1968-1971). Fritsch was one of a group of outstanding women ceramicists who emerged from the Royal Collage of Art in the seventies. Fritschs' ceramic vessels are fine coil-built stoneware vessels smoothed and refined into accurately profiled forms. They are hand decorated with dry matt slips, in colours unusual for ceramics. Fritschs' early works uses pale colours and later Fritsch used stronger blues and green and more recently she has turned to monochrome forms too. Fritsch has had a number of significant one-person shows over the years and in 1996 was a finalist for the Jerwood Prize for Ceramics. Fritschs' work is represented in major collections internationally and in Britain, she is one of the most highly valued contemporary ceramic artists working today.

Awards
1996    Shortlisted for Jerwood Prize, with exhibition traveling to Galerie Marianne Heller, Heidelberg 1995    Awarded CBE 1995    Elected Senior Fellowship, Royal College of Art 1993    Gold Medali, Visuelle Spiele, International Handwerksmesse München 1987    Bernard Leach Centenary Post Office Stamp issue with Hans Coper & Lucie Rie 1980    John Ruskin Bursary for Fictional Archaeology project 1976    Gold Medal, International Ceramics Competition, Sopot, Poland 1972    Prize Winner, Royal Copenhagen Jubilee 1970    Silver Medal Royal College of Art: Herbert Read Memorial Prize

Museum Collections
Museum Bellerive, Zurich City Art Gallery, Bristol City Art Gallery, Manchester Crafts Advisory Committee, London Kusnst Industri Museet, Copenhagen Leeds Art Galleries, Lotherton Hall Musée Des Arts Décoratifs, Paris Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam Museum of Decorative Arts, Motreal Museum Für Kunst Und Gewerbe, Hamburg Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan National Ceramic Collection, Cobu National Museum of Wales, Cardiff Welsh National Collection, Aberystwyth Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Kunstsammlungen-Coburg, Germany Shigaraki Museum, Japan Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Solo Exhibitions
2010  National Museum Cardiff, Wales, UK Dynamic Structures: Painted Vessels by Elizabeth Fritsch Oct 2 2010–Jan 2 2011

Features a range of her most significant studio pottery through to recently made pieces, Dynamic Structures: Painted Vessels by Elizabeth Fritsch marks the 70th birthday of a major Welsh-born ceramic artist.

2008   Fine Art Society - London November 11th-December.

2007    Retrospective, Bonhams, London 2007    Anthony Hepworth Gallery, Bath 2000    Metaphysical Vessels, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2000    Memory of Architecture, Part II, Besson Gallery, London 1998    Sea Pieces, Contemporary Applied Arts, London 1995-6 retrospective touring to Munich, Karlsruhe, Halle and Bellerive, Zurich 1995    Metaphysical Pots, Bellrive Museum 1994-5  Order and Chaos, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1994    Osiris Gallery, Brussels 1993-5  Vessels from Another World, Northern Centre for the Contemporary Arts, Sunderland, travelling to Aberdeen, Birmingham, Cardiff, London, Norwich, UK 1992-3   Retrospective, Pilscheur Fine Art, London 1991    Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany 1990    Cross Rhythms and Counterpoint, Edinburgh, Scotland 1978    Leeds Galleries, Temple Newsham; travelled to Glasgow, Bristol, Gateshead, Bolton, and V&A, London 1976    British Craft Centre, London 1974    Waterloo Place Gallery, London 1972    Bing and Grondahl, Copenhagen

Selected Group Exhibitions
2007    Contributor, 150 anniversary of the  V&A, 150anniversary slideshow 2003-6  Contributor, various art fairs including :Collect, V&A; International Ceramics Fair, London; London Art Fair(Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon); SOFA, New York and Chicago (Joanna Bird); Florida International Art Fair (Redfern Gallery) 2003-4  Contributor, Saved – 100 years of the National Art Collections Fund, Hayward Gallery, London 2003    Contributor, Five Artists, Frank Loyd Gallery, Los Angeles International Biennale, USA 2003    Contributor, The Legacy of Modern Ceramic Art, part 2, Ceramic Art from an International Perspective, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu 2002    Contributor, Diaspora Cymreig, touring Welsh Art Centres 2001    Contributor, Jerwood Prize exhibition, Crafts Council, London, touring UK 2000     Contributor, Steninge International Ceramics, Sweden 2000    Contributor, Keramic Bienale, Lucerne, Switzerland 2000    Contributor, British Ceramics DK, Keramikmuseet Gimmerhus, Denmark 1999    Contributor, ‘Twenty Five Years of the Crafts Council’, V&A, London 1999    Contributor, ‘British Ceramics’, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1999    Contributor, Memory of Architecture, Galerie Marianne Heller, Heidelberg 1999    Contributor, ‘World wxhibition of Ceramics’, Steningen Palace, Sweden 1999    Contributor, ‘Dialogue in Clay’, Artizana Gallery, Cheshire 1998    Contributor, ‘Fifty Years of Craft’, Contemporary Applied Arts, London 1997    Contributor, 'The Art of Function' with Richard Smith and Richard Warholic 1997    Contributor, 'The Culture of the Stripe', Munich 1996    Contributor, Jerwood Prize, Crafts Council touring to Heidelberg and Munich Contributor, Das Andere Gefass, Saarlandisches Kunstlerhaus, Saarbrucken 1993-6  Contributor, The Raw and the Cooked, Barbican Art Gallery, London, touring to MOMA, Oxford and Shigaraki, Japan 1992    Contributor to Keramiske Veje, Den Frie Gallery, Copenhagen 1987    The Stamp of Fame, Fischer Fine Art, London

Articles

 * 1) LAURA GASCOIGNE "Ahead of their time" © PROLITTERIS, ZURICH, The Spectator, SUNDAY 23 OCTOBER 2011


 * 1) Moira Vincentelli “Women & Ceramics, Gendered Vessels”, Manchester University Press, 2000, pg 249. ISBN-10: 0719038405 ISBN-13: 978-0719038402
 * 2) Garth Clark “The Potter’s Art”,, Phaidon 1995, pgs 200-01. ISBN-10: 0714832022 ISBN-13: 978-0714832029
 * 3) John Houston The Abstract pot: forms of expression and decoration by nine artist potters, Bellew Publishing 1991.
 * 4) Fischer Fine Art (1986) Nine Potters: Bernard Leach, Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie, Michael Cardew, Hans Coper, Lucie Rie, Elizabeth Fritsch, Ewen Henderson, Elizabeth Raeburn, Claudi Casanovas’ Catalogue of an exhibition held at Fisher Fine Art, 1986. ASIN: B001ON0RX2
 * 5) John Russell Taylor, Elizabeth Fritsch - Pots About Music 'Ceramic Review', 58 Jul/Aug 1979 pgs 30-33.
 * 6) J.D.H. Catleugh Recent Pots, Improvisations from Earth to Air, ‘Ceramic Review’, 44 Mar/Apr 1977 pg 7.

Broadcasts
BBC Private Passions, Classic Arts Production, On 14 April 2001 Michael Berkeley's guest was Elizabeth Fritsch

References and Publications
Dynamic Structures: Painted Vessels by Elizabeth Fritsch, published by the National Museum of Wales, October 2010, ISBN 978 0 7200 0611 7

Elizabeth Fritsch: The Fine Art Society, London, in association with Joanna Bird Pottery.Published by The Fine Art Society, in association with Joanna Bird Pottery, for the exhibition Elizabeth Fritsch, 12 to 27 November 2008, ISBN 978 0 905062 57 0

Studio: Ceramicists and their studios was an exhibition of photographs by Phil Sayer at the Ruthin Craft Centre. Philip Hughes and Amanda Fielding 2010 Published by Ruthin Craft Centre, ISBN 978 1 905865 25 3