Tanya Harrod
Writer
‘Empathise absolutely with the artist: their creativity is your material.’ That’s Tanya Harrod’s lodestar as a craft historian – and forming a connection with the early 1970s RCA coterie of ‘extraordinary women ceramicists’, indeed, is what first set her on her course. In the November 2023 issue, Tanya traces the private and public ties that stretch out from Hans Coper. ‘He was a potter whom architects admired – and I think that tells us a great deal.’
