TRUSTEES

TRUSTEES


Adopt a Potter Kigbeare Studios and Gallery Kigbeare Manor Farm Southcott Okehampton Devon EX20 4NL EMAIL


Adopt A Potter Registered Charity No. 1130164


	THE TRUSTEES of Adopt a Potter comprise leading potters and other individuals who bring various skills and experience needed to steer and manage the Adopt a Potter Trust. All are committed and passionate about the project and believe in the real need to help and produce a new generation of potters with well-rounded making skills based on the classic apprenticeship approach.

			LISA HAMMOND Lisa has been a potter for over 30 years. After leaving university, Lisa set up her first studio in Greenwich in 1980, whilst also teaching ceramics primarily at Goldsmiths College and also guest lecturing at many other universities and colleges throughout the UK and abroad. In 1994, Lisa set up her second studio at Maze Hill in Greenwich concentrating more on her own work and in training apprentices and teaching from the studio. Her work is exhibited in many museums and galleries both in the UK and abroad, particularly Japan and Korea. Lisa is a fellow of the CPA and currently Deputy Chair. In 2010, Lisa set up a second studio at Kigbeare in Devon. Lisa is the founder member of Adopt-a-Potter.


			PHIL ROGERS Phil has been a potter for 33 years and apart from making pots has written a number of books on various aspects of ceramics. He has exhibited in galleries around the world and his work has found homes in over 50 museum collections in the USA, United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Korea, Germany and Holland. Phil is a fellow of the Craft Potters Association, a member of the International Academy of Ceramics and a member of the Royal Cambrian Acadamy. There have been a number of awards... most recently he won the International Vasefinder competition in the United States. In 2007 'Phil Rogers-potter' was published by the Pucker Gallery in the U.S.A. and a film by Charles Mapleston ‘Passion for Pots was released in 2008 by Goldmark Gallery in the UK.


			JOHN HIGGINS John was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, near the potteries in Stoke on Trent. This was a major influence. He attended art school and then Art College in Wolverhampton and gained his Art Teachers Certificate through Sussex University. Since leaving Art College he has continued to develop his own ceramic work. It has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most notably in Faenza Italy, Valauris France, Fletcher Challenge New Zealand, South Africa and Japan, and more regularly throughout the UK. His work is illustrated in a number of publications. He is a Fellow of the CPA. John has been involved in both Art and Ceramics education. He has taught Ceramics and Art in most areas of education, though adult education has been a major concern. He also presents workshops both nationally and internationally and has been invited to Namibia to judge an international competition. John is an external moderator for the awarding body, City and Guilds.

			GRAHAM JENNER Independent consultant in corporate finance, including development of business plans, monitoring performance, strategic and business reviews, business valuation. Substantial senior level experience in international tax gained as head of tax for multinational groups based in the Netherlands and the USA. Chairman of the Board of ColVisTec AG, a Berlin based company specialising in real time colour spectroscopy, director of the Bronte Renewable Energy Group, project advisor to the Chameleon Film Fund. A collector of studio ceramics for over 35 years and with a claim to some understanding of the creative mind through having a potter as a partner.