| Profile: | Bill Brown BA(Hons) PGDip
Bill Brown was born in Shetland and educated at Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, graduating in 1973 and completing a Post-graduate Diploma in 1974. He began part-time teaching in 1978, in conjunction with working as a self-employed ceramist. He began working in the Ceramics Department at Glasgow School of Art in 1986, after a Research Fellowship at the South Glamorgan Institute in Cardiff.
His main interests within ceramics are in the areas of industrial practice, particularly in mouldmaking and printing, but he maintains an involvement in a wide range of ceramic disciplines and has worked in the areas of tableware, sanitary ware, architectural ceramics and tile restoration as well as in making pieces for exhibition. He is involved in developing new materials and forming methods and is particularly interested in encouraging students to look for new types of context for ceramic work, new kinds of product and for new opportunities to widen the future range of ceramics practice.
He has worked in a number of institutions as a visiting lecturer, and has recently lead workshops in the United States, Norway and Hungary. Recent exhibitions include having work represented in "Hot off the Press" and "The Plate Show", two U.K. touring exhibitions, and also had a solo exhibition at the International Ceramics Studio Gallery in Kecskemet, Hungary.
As well as being active in contemporary ceramics practice and research he has a strong interest in the role of ceramics in archaeology and has worked on a number of research and teaching projects with the Archaeology Department at the University of Glasgow. Recent projects have included research into Neolithic ceramics from Orkney and 19th. Century potteries in Glasgow.
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