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Clayton Bailey - From Funk to Nut Art
Clayton Bailey - From Funk to Nut Art
Stephanie Rozene and curator Garth Johnson pick up the story of Funk Art and look at the life and work of artist Clayton Bailey who would go on to form the breakaway movement called Nut Art. Taking ceramics into a new realm of world making, eccentricity and humour, Bailey would inhabit an alter egos, stage pranks with the press and take the museum world on an unexpected journey.
Ceramics and artwork in this week’s episode include:
No Deposit No Return, 1961, Robert ArnesonCritter Rider, 1960, Clayton Bailey His and Hers, 1964, Robert Arneson Clayton Bailey with Nite Pots, 1965 The Typewriter # 1 (Touch System), 1965, Robert Arneson Clayton Bailey with Nite Pots, 1965 Clayton Bailey with Jughead Pots, 2011 Country Dog Gentlemen, 1972, Roy de Forest Mountain on Wheels with Fox Fiddlers, 2019, Maija Peeples-Bright Frog Oreos, 1990, David Gilhooley Dr Gladstone (Clayton Bailey) uncovers Bigfoot skeleton in Port Costa, CA Clayton Bailey’s World of Wonders Store Front Clayton Bailey with Jughead Pots Garth Johnson - Curator of Kaolithic Curiosities, 2011
Professor Paul Greenhalgh is a specialist on the art and design of the Modern period. He has written widely on Art Nouveau and curated several exhibitions including the major survey Art Nouveau 1890-1914, which toured internationally (2000-01). His books include Ephemeral Vistas (1988), Modernism in Design (1990), Art Nouveau 1890–1914 (2000), The Modern Ideal (2005), Fair World (2011), L’Art Nouveau: La Revolution Decorative (2013), Ceramic Art and Civilisation (2021) and Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of Youth (2022). He has held positions as Head of Research at the V&A Museum, London; President and Director at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Director of the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich; and Inaugural Director of the Zaha Hadid Foundation, London. He was born and raised in Bolton, and is a proud Lancastrian.
Stephanie Rozene is a ceramic artist, Professor of Art, and the Ceramics Program Coordinator at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York she has been teaching, writing and making art since 2004. At Hartwick she's been honored with the Wandersee Scholar in Residence award twice, along with the Teacher Scholar Award. Stephanie's research uses historical ornament and porcelain as a visual language to critique contemporary political rhetoric, and she also explores the history of clay as a cooking tool. Her work has been shown extensively both nationally and internationally. She is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics and is the Vice President of the board of trustees for the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, Maine, and was educated at NSCAD University in Nova Scotia, Canada and the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.
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