A puzzling trip into potter world

There are many reasons that an artist’s ambitions can be thwarted, including the decision to become a teacher. Later this month, an exhibition will shine a light on talent obscured by a career in the classroom

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So we’re back, for another “celebration of the mysterious, the miraculous and the downright weird” – but does our motorcycle-mad host the Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe have any new tricks up his sleeve in

In the past 40 years, ceramics has moved firmly into fine-art territory, opening the door for huge, flamboyant vessels and installations rich in personal expression and experimentation, as Corinne Julius discovers

John Maybury was a fellow graduate of the Derek Jarman school of filmmaking, and it was in those heady, early days that he first became aware of Tilda Swinton. The pair worked closely on two challengi

The recording artist Simon Fisher Turner wields an impressively varied CV. Entering showbusiness as a child actor, he endured a brief spell as a teen pop idol before evolving into a sharp-eared curato