Directory: SCULPTURE

 
     _SCULPTORS

::   Philip Eglin - sculptor and ceramicist who lives in Newcastle-under-Lyme and teaches part-time in Stoke. He won the prestigious Jerwood Prize for Ceramics as the most promising young ceramic sculptor in Britain, and recently had a solo show at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

::   Miho Suganami - based at Keele & Newcastle-under-Lyme, Miho is a fine artist whose work invites an audience to engage with 'art' in a way that's tactile, fun and toy-like.

::   Jon Edgar - a sculptor based in Tunstall, Stoke for half the year; and in Hastings, Northamptonshire for the rest of the year.

::  Angela Munslow - sculptor and painter. She studied figurative sculpture at the Stoke-based Sir Henry Doulton School of Sculpture (which later was reborn as the Frink).

::  Ian Knapper - fine hand-carved classic stone fireplaces. Based in Cheadle, near Stoke.

::  Ondre Nowakowski - makes large public art in metal.

::  Myatt & Leason - traditional stone-masons.

::  Freeform Studios - computer modelling services for sculptors.

  Church Wall Gargoyles - based in Cheadle. Creator of the statues at the Alton Towers Hotel and stone carvings in Ugland & Alice in Wonderland at Alton Towers. Church Wall also run classes at The Potters Barn.

     _COURSES

Two Staffordshire colleges offer some courses in Sculpture; the WEA's Wedgwood Memorial College at Barlaston, and Stafford College. Staffordshire University offers stone carving options on some degree courses.

     _ASSOCIATIONS

::  The Memorial Mason's Association of North Staffordshire.