• Introduction • Tableware and other Functional Forms • Playing on Function • Vessel Forms • Sculptural Forms • Abstract Sculptural Forms • Different Ways of Working

Discussing the works in the Ceramic Contemporaries 4 exhibition Introduction Ceramic Contemporaries 4 shows a huge range of works in different sizes, with all sorts of materials and surface effects used. They can be roughly sorted into the following categories or ‘genres’: • Tableware and other functional forms • Vessel forms • Sculptural forms, including figurative sculpture • Other forms, such as conceptual and installation work We have chosen individual pieces for further discussion in order to expand on the categories given above, and to introduce a number of related themes and issues, which teachers can adapt and introduce as appropriate for different key stages.