Late at Lopdell: Films on potters

Two films about potters will be the first in a series of film presentation every month by film-maker Robin Kewell at Lopdell House, Titirangi.

'The Potters Art, East - West' (The story of Bernard Leach)

A film from the archive which includes a section on Wedgewood with Leach comparing the industrial potteries to what he and others were doing in Cornwall.

'Playing with Fire'

Made in West Cornwall as part of the Tate St Ives 'Ceramica' event. Jason Wason became a potter after travelling the world for eight years with the aim of exploring the cultures of the Balkans, Mediterranean, Middle East and Asia. In 1976 he settled in Cornwall and was taken on in Bernard Leach's St Ives Pottery as an assistant in the production of domestic pottery thrown on the wheel. After Bernard Leach's death in 1979, Jason continued to work at the Leach Pottery until setting up his own studio near St Just on the Penwith Peninsula in 1981. As part of the Tate Gallery's "Ceramica" event he invited Japanese Potter Yasua Terada to come to Cornwall and conduct a massive straw bale firing in a pit in the countryside, with local artists, writers, craftsmen making pieces for the special firing.

Date: Saturday February 20, from 7.30pm, doors open at 7pm.

Venue: Top Floor of Lopdell House, Titirangi, Waitakere, Auckland

Entry: $12 or $10 for Friends of Lopdell House Gallery.

Bookings: Phone 817 8087 x201 or call into the gallery shop.