• 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 Knowledge and Understanding: Tableware and other functional forms Brenda Fee Graham Hudson Hanne Rysgaard Justin Marshall   Most people, whatever their age, will be familiar with the concept of tableware. We handle it every day; it is the commonest ceramic ‘genre’. While the exhibition includes relatively little traditional tableware, there are some interesting alternative approaches on display. Ceramics also play a functional role in architecture. Tiles for instance have a very long history and they are still much used nowadays. They can be decorative, as in Victorian fireplace surrounds, and/or practical, as in bathrooms.