Join us for dinner at the Lamb to celebrate 40 years of the Ceramics and Glass Group. After dinner, we will have the unique opportunity to hear from Bouke De Vries, who will give a talk on his recent exhibition Visions in Porcelain: A Rake's Progress which was on display last year at the Sir John Soane Museum.
Visions in Porcelain: A Rake’s Progress | Sir John Soane's Museum
The meal will include two courses and a glass of wine. Please see the attached menu for the options. If anyone has any dietary requirements, the venue will be able to offer some substitutions. After booking onto the event, please email your menu choices (main and starter OR dessert)/dietary requirements to us at [email protected] by 26th September 2024.
The Lamb CCG Menu.pdf
Speaker
Born in Utrecht, The Netherlands, Bouke de Vries studied at the Design Academy Eindhoven, and Central St Martin’s, London. After working with John Galliano, Stephen Jones and Zandra Rhodes, he switched careers and studied ceramics conservation and restoration at West Dean College. Every day in his practice as a private conservator he was faced with issues and contradictions around perfection and worth and used this as the starting point for his works.
Using his skills as a restorer , his artworks reclaim broken pots after their accidental trauma. He has called it ‘the beauty of destruction’. Instead of reconstructing them, he deconstructs them. Instead of hiding the evidence of this most dramatic episode in the life of a ceramic object, he emphasises their new status, instilling new virtues, new values, and moving their stories forward.