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Exhibitions

The exquisite pottery of Richard Batterham

23 April 2022

9:00 AM

23 April 2022

9:00 AM

Richard Batterham: Studio Potter

Victoria & Albert Museum, until 26 September

Richard Batterham died last September at the age of 85. He had worked in his pottery in the village of Durweston near Blandford Forum in Dorset for 60 years continuously. It was, in its own way, an heroic life.

Batterham took an astonishingly pure, austere approach to his work. Quite simply, he undertook every part of the process of making himself.

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