The Crafts Study Centre continues to add to its object and archive collections through donations, bequests and purchases. All potential additions to the collection are reviewed by the Centre’s Acquisitions Committee, which meets approximately twice a year, and are considered against the collecting priorities set out in the Collections Development Policy.

Acquisition highlights May 2025-July 2026

Eleven late twentieth and early twenty-first ceramics from KennedyTing arts foundation: Including Alison Britton, Crate, 2021; Annie Turner, Tide Mark Sluice, 2004; Carol McNicoll, Monumental Bowl, c.1980; Felicity Aylieff, Celadon Vessel, 2007; Ken Eastman, Large Vessel, 1998; Natasha Daintry, Dark Purple with Red Line and Mid Purple Yellow Line Tall, 2002 and Ziggurat, 2009; Peter Ting, Buddha Hands Cup and Saucer, 2004. For more details click here. Parts of the collection on show in Rapid Response vitrine in the ground floor Tanner Gallery at the Crafts Study Centre.

Iwa by Ranti Bam: A significant work from the ceramic artist Ranti Bam, the third commission of the Contemporary Art Society’s Griffin Award. Iwa was made in the Ceramics and Glass workshops on the UCA campus after three days exploring the CSC collections in its Research Room. The work is hand-built from slabs that have been impressed with painted slip motifs influenced by Enid Marx’s hand-block printed samples in the CSC colllection. For more details click here. Now on show as part of Enid Marx: The Pattern of Life at Compton Verney (until January 2027).

Tom Perkins and Gaynor Goffe pieces: Calligraphy, cut lettering, sketches, roughs and other archival items. Two pieces were on show as part of Fluidity and Inscription: Goffe’s Night’s Darkness Yields, and a letter-cut slate alphabet by Perkins.