hans coper

Pk Alison Britton on Hans Coper

Pk Because when you look at it first you think it might be a cup sitting on a neck, and it's not. It goes all the way down. If it had been in various people's homes it would have had flowers in it probably, wouldn't it? I mean, Lucie would always have put flowers in his pots.

I like them more when he's playing more severely with the form, when there's more flattening or extension or something. But I own a little thistle, and some of the ones where there's an envelope that's been shut to an extreme with the points at the bottom; that's the spade one, isn't it? That may be my favourite form. But it's very, very evocative of the whole body of things.

The ceramics of Hans Coper

Charlie Park and Xa Sturgis, Director of the Ashmolean Museum, discuss the potter and artist Hans Coper. To mark the 100th anniversary of Hans Coper’s birth, the Ashmolean is devoting a display to an exhibition of Coper’s ceramics made across his career. The exhibition includes ceramics from the Museum’s own collection together with more than 30 loans from private collections.