Professor Sebastian Blackie
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Job title: Programme Leader MA ADAPT
Email: s.blackie@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: 01332 593182
Room: 203 Markeaton Street
Recent publications
Olsen Kiln Book, book review, Ceramic Review (Jan/Feb)
Slipped, exhibition review, Ceramic Review (Jan/Feb
Sara Flynn, catalogue essay. Erskine, Hall and Coe
Elspeth Owen, catalogue essay. The Oxford Ceramic Gallery
Accepted for publication:
Making places, Making people. Ceramic Art and Perception November 2012.
Clayscape. Ceramic Review, November 2012
Experience in Industry
Substancial experience in the creative industries with residencies/public lectures and demonstrations at the following:Appledor Visual Arts festival,Fuping world museum of contemporary ceramics, China,Experimental Pottery workshop, Jingdezhen, China,Denmark's International Ceramic Museum research centre, Guldagergaard, ZealandAnseong University, Korea,Ryoji Koie studio, Kamiyahagi, Japan, National Art School, Sydney, Australia,Ascham School, Sydney, Australia,Tresham College, University of Northampton, UKGlasgow School of Art, UKSydney University's College of the Arts,Sturt Craft Centre, Manly T.A.F.E. College, SydneyAichi School of Ceramics, Japan, Aichi University of Fine Art, JapanAichi Prefecture Ceramics Museum, JapanLa Meridiana Arts Centre, Italy, AugustGlasgow School of Art,Ashmolean Museum Oxford, UKWolfson College Oxford, UKV&A Museum LondonContributed to a number of books on contemporary ceramics.
Current Activities / Links with Industry
Commission for Wolfson College Oxford
Faculty: Arts, Design and Technology
School: School of Art and Design
Subject Area: Art and Design
I am Programme Leader for the interdisciplinary masters in art and design
Teaching responsibilities
MA ADAPT
Professional interests
Ceramic specialist
Active artist/designer/freelance writer
Recently selected by Bond Street Gallery Erskine, Hall and Coe to represent them at Collect art fair, Saatchi Gallery, London. SOFA art fair New York. Erskine, Hall and Coe Summer Exhibition, SOFA Chicago
Commissioned by Ceramic Review Magazine to write book review: Olsen Kiln Book and exhibition review: 'Slipped' Wysing Arts, Cambridgeshire.
Recent publications
Wolfson College Oxford, Solo, May 2011.
University of Derby, Sustainability Festival March 2011.
Galerie Besson Summer exhibition, Royal Arcade, London. 2010
British Studio Ceramics, Mint Museum, North Carolyna, USA, June 2010.
SOFA New York April 2010
Galerie Besson, Royal Arcade, London. Contemporary Ceramics Group Feb 2010
Clive Bowen, exhibition catalogue essay for Japan exhibitions May 2011 (St Ives gallery)
Tokyo, Shikama Fine Arts Kyoto.
Rioji Koie exhibition catalogue essay October 2010 Gallerie Besson
Svien Bayer, exhibition catalogue essay Goldmark Gallery, Published October 2010 ISBN 978-1-870507-72-1.
Research interests
Current research interest is focused on landscape. Member of Digital and Material Arts Research Centre (D-MARC) and Identity, Conflict and Representation Research Centre (ICR) research groups. APT research group, Northampton University
International Experience
see above
Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees
UK consultant: Fu Ping conferenceConsultant to Open Futures a skills and enquiry-based curriculum development programme; a charity established by the Helen Hamlyn trust.
Recent Conferences
Affective Landscapes, conference paper, UoD.
Additional Interests and Activities
Confirmed future exhibitions:
Easter Island, Myths and Popular Culture, Easter Island Museo Antropologico P. Sebastian Englert (MAPSE) + venues in Chili. September-
North of Watford Gap -clayscape of the East Midlands. Watford Gap Service station, date to be agreed.
Edify Lyveden New Bield, Northamptonshire, July August 2013
Clayscapes, National Art School, Sydney, Australia 2013
Undergraduate qualifications
- Dip AD 3D Design, Farnham School of Art
Postgraduate qualifications
- ATC, Goldsmiths University of London
