Curriculum Vitae
Ruth King was born in Enfield, Middx. in 1955 and trained at Camberwell School of Arts and Craft from 1974-77. She moved to York after four years living and working in London and to her current studio near York in 1987.
Work is available by commission, through exhibitions and from Godfrey and Watt, Harrogate; Broughton Gallery, Broughton, Scotland; Contemporary Ceramics, London; Lund Gallery, Easingwold and New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham.
| MEMBERSHIP | |
| Crafts Council Photostore Selected Makers | |
| Craft Potters Association, Fellow | |
| York Art Workers Association | |
| Studiopottery.co.uk | |
| PUBLIC COLLECTIONS | |
| Victoria and Albert Museum, London | |
| Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh | |
| Royal Ulster Museum, Belfast | |
| York City Art Gallery | |
| Nottingham Castle Museum | |
| The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent | |
| AWARDS | |
| 1981 | Crafts Council Setting Up |
| 1989 | Inax Design Prize |
| 1998 | Yorkshire Arts grant towards new kiln |
| 2007 | Arts Council England project award ‘Kate’s Pond’ |
| ARTICLES | |
| 2006 | A Quiet Dynamic, Ceramics Art and Perception issue 65 |
| 2006 Jul/Aug | Review, Ceramic Review issue 220 |
| 1990 Nov/Dec | A Potter’s Day, Ceramic Review |
| 1987 Mar/Apr | Illustration Ceramic Review |
| 1984 Jul/Aug | The Individual Eye, Ceramic Review |
| 1983 Jul/Aug | Review of Studio Ceramics Today, Ceramic Review |
| BOOKS | |
| 2001 | Rosemary Cochrane, Salt-glaze Ceramics, Crowood Press |
| 1990 | Pat Carter, Dictionary of Potters Marks, Scholar Press |
| 1982 | Emmanuel Cooper, Electric Kiln Pottery, Batsford |
| CATALOGUES | |
| 2006 | Saltglasert Keramikk |
| 2006 | Broughton Gallery |
| 2006 | Saltzbrand |
| 2002 | Saltzbrand |
| 1994 | Saltzbrand |
| 1989 | Inax Design Prize |
| 1983 | Studio Ceramics Today |