School of Art

Contact Details

School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

Geoffrey Eastop

Born: 1921, UK, England, London   Died: 2014

Ceramicist. Originally he trained as a painter and took up pottery in the 1950s, working initially with Alan Caiger-Smith at Aldermaston Pottery. Since setting up on his own in the 1960s, Eastop has made handbuilt organic vessel forms in low-fired stoneware. After 1969 he had a long and fruitful collaboration with the painter, John Piper producing brightly decorated ceramics. He has also made a number of large-scale architectural murals

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

[Flightless Bird] C1410 Ceramics




 
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