Contemporary British Studio Ceramics: The Grainer Collection

October 2010-April 2011 

Mint Museum of Craft + Design at

The Mint Museum Uptown

Photo courtesy of independent.co.uk

"Something of a rebel, he was a lifelong pacifist and atheist, and his decision to become a potter was, in part, a refusal to compete in what he saw as an increasingly consumer-led society."

-Emmanuel Cooper on Robert Fournier from independant.co.uk

More Information:

• View the artist's profile at Aberystwyth University
• Read an obituary of Fournier published in The Independant 
• Read this profile of Fournier from studiopottery.com 

In The Mint Museum Library:

•  Fournier, Robert. Illustrated Dictionary of Pottery Form. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1981.  

• Fournier, Robert. Illustrated Dictionary of Practical Pottery. London: A&C Black, 1992. 

   

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Created by Madelyn Riggs. Intern for The Mint Museum Library