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Ardmore. We Are Because of Others - The Story of Fee Halsted and Ardmore Ceramic Art (Hardcover)
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Ardmore. We Are Because of Others - The Story of Fee Halsted and Ardmore Ceramic Art (Hardcover)
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Ardmore ceramics are found in major collections in several European
countries, the United States and South Africa and have been given
as state gifts to, among others, Bill Clinton, Jacques Chirac,
Queen Elizabeth II and Empress Michiko of JapanGiraffe stretch out
their necks and bat-eared foxes curl their tails to make handles
for jugs, vases and tureens. Inquisitive monkeys peer over the edge
of a planter, teasing the leopards below them. Magical creatures
wear cloaks of flowers, spots and stripes; a turbanned Zulu figure
sits astride a hippo Colorful, imaginative, vibrant, delicate and
dramatic these are just some of the hallmarks of the artworks that
have garnered international accolades for Ardmore Ceramic Art in
rural KwaZulu-Natal. It is here, in South Africa s most successful
ceramics studio set in the verdant Midlands, that exquisitely
handcrafted and highly detailed figurative works and functional
ware are created by more than fifty artists who draw on Zulu
traditions and folklore, history, the natural world, and their own
lives for inspiration.In turn, it is the lives of the sculptors and
painters of Ardmore that fire the vision of the woman behind it
all: Fee Halsted is an artist whose love of teaching and
determination to fight poverty and AIDS have set others on the path
of creative self-discovery and ultimately worldwide
acclaim."Ardmore We Are Because of Others" tells the extraordinary
story of this famous studio from its humble beginnings in a
poverty-stricken corner of South Africa to its fame as a producer
of exceptional and irresistible objets d art prized by collectors,
galleries and museums throughout the world. It is also the story of
the indomitable Fee Halsted who is the driving force behind the
enterprise, and the artists whose inventive spirit and fearless
creativity are at the heart of Ardmore."
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