Chris Cox ceramic artist
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Christine Cox - potter

stoneware wine beaker - soda-fired

ceramic wine beaker. Fired in a soda kiln
stoneware wine beakers
10cms tall.

contact : chris@potfest.co.uk

1971 - Graduated from Manchester College of Art with an hons. degree in Fine Art
( painting / printmaking )
1974 -
First solo ceramics exhibition At Rochdale Municipal Museum
1974 - present day - Selling direct and through galleries throughout the UK.
1987 - present day - Participant in international exhibitions in:
Japan :
Yokkaichi, Nagoya, Seto
Germany :
Soest, Cologne, Krefeld
Holland :
Nijmegen, Millsbeck, Swalmen, Eindhoven, Gouda, Dwingeloo.
Belgium :
Maasiek, Brasschaat, Torhout
Canada :
Toronto
Spain :
Montblanc

Work in private collections in Japan, New Zealand, Australia, and USA.

2000 - 1 month workshop residency in Yokkaichi, Japan
2003 -
Co-ordinated and participated in joint Japanese / British demonstrations and exhibition in Yokkaichi, Japan.
2007 - Research trip to Thailand, Laos and Cambodia including one week at Ban Chan pottery village, Luang Prabang.
2008 - Mick Casson award for services to ceramics ( Geoff & Chris Cox )

Most recent exhibitions :

2006 - International Chawan Exposition, Belgium
2007 -
Journees de la Ceramique - St Sulpice, Paris
2009 - International Chawan Expositions, Torhout & Andennes, Belgium

For the past sixteen years I have been co-organiser, with my husband Geoff, of the Potfest ceramic markets in the UK, and its website designer ( www.potfest.co.uk )