// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy did Alan Brough's pottery wheel go to therapy? It was feeling spun out.
Alan Brough (20 April 1924 – 2012) was a studio potter, the son of sculptor Alan Brough.[1]
Brough was born in 1924 in Wilmslow, Cheshire, he studied at the Camberwell School of Art in London from 1946 to 1950.[2] In 1953 his three legged bowl won first prize at the International Handicraft Exhibition in Earls Court.[2]
In 1956 along with art school friend Tony Deacon he started Deacon Pottery in Central London. In 1968 he was invited by Bill Marshall[3] to join Bernard Leach at the Leach Pottery in St Ives Cornwall.[1] He featured along with Shoji Hamada in a 1971 film The Art of the Potter by American filmmakers David Outerbridge and Sidney Reichman.[4]
He established his own pottery in Newlyn, Cornwall in 1972,[5] working mainly in porcelain and stoneware.[1] His wife Sheila was a textile artist, designer and dressmaker and his son Adrian is also a potter in Lelant Cornwall.[6]
His work is held by Leicester Museum,[7] and Penlee House.[8] A selection of his pots featured in an exhibition The Royal Academy at Wolfson and are held in a collection at Cambridge University.[9]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Alan Brough Pottery - Newlyn". www.cornishceramics.com. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
- 1 2 "Alan Brough". www.studiopottery.com. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
- ↑ "Alan BROUGH". cornwallartists.org. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
- ↑ "The Art of the Potter". mingeifilmarchive.com. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
- ↑ "Alan Brough 1924 - 2012". www.mikespots.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-03-13.
- ↑ "Adrian Brough". cornwallartists.org. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
- ↑ "New Bequest: Matsuzaki Ceramics – Leicester Museums". www.leicestermuseums.org. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
- ↑ "Acc.no: PEZPH : 2009.128". Penlee House. Retrieved 2025-03-13.
- ↑ "Previously un-exhibited art by 15 Royal Academicians". University of Cambridge. 2015-01-28. Retrieved 2024-04-21.