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The metaphysical function of certain kinds of buildings is to convey transcendence, spiritual exaltation, serenity, et cetera.This is most potent when there is an inter-relationship with music or the airy element, appearance and disappearance or extreme drama, as in monasteries, cathedrals, temples, tombs, and theatres.Even more than in such intentionally metaphysical buildings, certain mundane physically functional architecture carries a strong other-worldly poetic charge- all the stronger perhaps for being an unintentional by-product of the physical function, as in, for example, lighthouses, windmills, telescopes, bridges, boats, dams.It is the dangerous elemental relationships which make precision engineered buildings such as these breathtaking.A third strand of influence comes from the dramatic architecture created by the elements in nature: such as, - to mention just a few examples from geology- mountaintops (Ziggurat towers, pyramids), cliffs, chasms, waves.
- Elizabeth Fritsch
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Awards
1996 Shortlisted for Jerwood Prize, with exhibition traveling to Galerie Marianne Heller, Heidelberg
1995 CBE and Senior Fellowship, Royal College of Art
1993 Gold Medalist, Visuelle Spiele, International Handwerksmesse München
1972 Prize Winner, Royal Copenhagen Jubilee
1970 Silver Medal Royal College of Art: Herbert Read Memorial Prize
Education
1968-71 Royal College of Art, MA Ceramics (Distinction)
1958-63 Royal Academy of Music, Post Graduate Diploma
Birmingham School of Music, Music (Teaching) BA Hons
Museum Collections
Belle Rive Museum, Zurich
City Art Gallery, Bristol
City Art Gallery, Manchester
Crafts Advisory Committee, London
Kusnst Industry Museum, Copenhagen
Leeds Art Galleries, Lotherton Hall
Musée Des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Museum of Decorative Arts, Motreal
Museum Für Kunst Und Gewerbe, Hamburg
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan
National Ceramic Collection, Coburg, Germany
Shigaraki Museum, Japan
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Welsch National Collection, Aberystwyth
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2000 Metaphysical Vessels, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Memory of Architecture, Part II, Besson Gallery, London
1998 Sea Pieces, Contemporary Applied Arts, London
1995 Metaphysical Pots, Bellrive Museum
1994-5 Order and Chaos, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1994 Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1993-5 Vessels from Another World, Northern Centre for the Contemporary Arts, Sunderland, traveling to Aberdeen, Birmingham, Cardiff, London, Norwich, UK
1992 Pilscheur Fine Art, London
1991 Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany
1990 Cross Rhythms and Counterpoint, Edinburg, Scotland
1978 Leeds Galleries, Temple Newsham; traveled to Glasgow, Bristol, Gateshead, Bolton, and V&A, London
1976 British Craft Center, London
1974 Waterloo Place Gallery, London
1972 Bing and Grondahl, Copehagen
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