Periodicals

As everyone knows, there are quite a number of ceramics and arts periodicals published in all parts of the world. A lot of these have very good websites with lots of useful links for local events, galleries and resources.

Please forgive that I haven’t listed every possible one in existence. For a magazine to be included here, I have to have found it useful in some way, as a ceramics student, or anticipate that I might find it useful shortly. For example, I haven’t listed magazines aimed at a hobbyist readership. I’ll also remove any if I deem them irrelevant at a later date. Magazines in languages that I can’t understand aren’t listed. Apologies for that.

Ceramics Periodicals

Ceramics Art and Perception and Ceramics Technical

I can highly recommend both these publications. They are published in Sydney, Australia, but are international in scope, beautiful, glossy and contain a wealth of information and intelligent articles about contemporary conceptual and technical issues currently being explored by the top established and emerging artists. These are my favorite of all ceramics periodicals. Ceramics Art and Perception is published quarterly and Ceramics Technical bi-annually.

The Journal of Australian Ceramics

This magazine used to be known as “Pottery in Australia”. It’s published by the Australian Ceramics Association. For keeping you up to date with all new and established talent in Australia and also international ceramics news. Also beautiful.

Ceramic Review

Ceramic Review is the primary ceramics periodical published in the UK. It’s a publication of the Craft Potters Association of Great Britain. A quality, lovely, intelligent magazine, but a rather strange slightly-too-big-and-floppy format and maybe not quite on the same stage internationally as Ceramics Art and Perception, but for all UK artists, highly recommended. Great also for keeping you up to date with all UK events and exhibitions.

Interpreting Ceramics

This is a FREE, up-to-date, online publication, by the University of Wales, Cardiff, UK. Highly recommended for ceramics theory by my fellow students at the GSA. Also a very useful site for links and information. Incredible!

Ceramics Monthly

A publication of the American Ceramic Society. This magazine, when I was reading it a year or so ago in the USA (it may have changed) was printed on poorer quality paper than the other magazines in this list. It’s also mainly a forum for advertising - so great to keep you in touch with ceramics related workshops, exhibitions, educational programmes, conferences and products etc in the USA. As I remember, it contained few articles and lacked substance - to me - although there are some very good writers who contribute to it and some outstanding American ceramic artists have been featured in it.

Crafts Periodicals

Craft Arts International

An Australian publication. Another lovely magazine that I would love to have available here in Scotland. It’s slightly larger (wider and taller) format than Ceramics Art and Perception and The Journal of Australian Ceramics, which I tend to think is slightly too big for practical purposes (of carrying it around with you) and makes it harder to read as it’s more ‘floppy’. But, that says nothing about the content, which is outstanding, images beautiful and an added bonus of seeing what is happening across all crafts media and not just ceramics, with brilliant articles on ceramics also included of course.

Object Magazine

Object Magazine is a publication of the Australian Centre for Craft and Design. Another outstanding publication well worth a look and also the Object Gallery in Sydney is worth a visit or one hundred. A magazine with a design focus, but also supporting the best of Australian contemporary craft, including ceramics.

Crafts

An informative, comprehensive and fantastic publication of the Crafts Council in the UK. Includes ceramics as well as other craft forms and is forward looking, with many articles on new technologies and emerging artists.

American Craft

A publication of the American Craft Council. I’m not really familiar with this magazine. There’s a spot for it in the GSA library but it wasn’t on the shelf. Opinions welcome.

Art Magazines

Specific to my interests: Technology and culture

The following magazines are just random publications I think might be useful to me during my MPhil degree.

I’ve been really enjoying this magazine lately. It comes out weekly, is relatively cheap and full of popular science stories about new discoveries and advances in medicine, physics, robotics, archeology, the environment - you name it, often presented in a way that is amusing and easy to understand. Fascinating for me because of my research project.

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Updated Friday 16th November, 2007