VisitBritain_Faces of Britain Guide 2012_01

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ENGLAND

CULTURE

Kerry Goodwin

Prof. Paul Greenhalgh

Designer for Moorcroft Art Pottery

Director, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

Kerry has an electric personality and is one of the best ceramic designers in the UK. She is used to meeting and speaking to the media about her job. She has designed “the athletes” an item done to commemorate the Olympics.

Stoke-on-Trent, England

Contact: Sam Hall at Stoke-on-Trent Tourism (or Catherine Edwards at Moorcroft) Telephone: 01782 232817 (Moorcroft 01782 820253) Email: tourism@stoke.gov.uk / Catherine.edwards@moorcroft.com Website: www.visitstoke.co.uk / www.moorcroft.com Index

Professor Paul Greenhalgh, formerly Director and President of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art and Design in Washington DC, is Director of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. Professor Greenhalgh’s specialist areas are the fine and decorative arts 1850 to 1940, the history of exhibitions, the history of western ceramics, and Norwich, England modern and contemporary craft. His books include Ephemeral Vistas (1989), Modernism in Design (1993), Art Nouveau 1890-1914 (2000), The Persistence of Craft (2003) and The Modern Ideal (2005). He earned his undergraduate degree in fine art and art history from the University of Reading in 1978, and completed a master’s degree at the Courtauld Institute, University of London, in 1980. In 2007 he was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Brighton.

Contact: Sally Goldsmith Telephone: 01603 592448 / 07769 586903 Email: s.goldsmith@uea.ac.uk Website: www.scva.ac.uk 49


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