John Hinchcliffe

Whitworth Gallery, Manchester - Crafts of the SeventiesCrafts Advisory Centre, London - Masterpiece1978 Lecture tour of Australia funded by the Australian Crafts CouncilExhibits in Frankfurt - Contemporary German and British CraftsBirmingham Museum and Art Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum,London - Objects1979 British Crafts Centre, London - Star QualityTeaches at Guild of Spinners, Weavers and Dyers Summer SchoolMeets Wendy Barber1980 First Arundel summer school, with Ann SuttonSouthern Arts AwardCity Arts Centre, Edinburgh - Prescot in Edinburgh1981 Moves to Charlton Cottage, Charlton Marshall, Blandford Forum withWendy Barber and her children, James, Polly, Rosie and HarrietBegins to research and develop ceramicsSecond Arundel summer schoolExhibitions include the Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton -Contemporary Craft, Kettles Yard, Cambridge - Textiles Today andKnokke-Heist, Belgium - British Ceramics and Textiles1982 First ceramic exhibition at the V&A craft shop - John Hinchcliffe andJanice Tchalenko, CeramicsFirst trip to IndiaReceives major award from South West Arts1983 Shows first majolica collection of platters at the Salisbury Arts Centre- Hinchcliffe and Barber, Paintings, Ceramics and TextilesSecond trip to IndiaCrafts Council - A Closer Look at Rugs1984 Exhibits at the V&A shop - The New Omega, the Catherine HouseGallery, Marlborough, and also with Wendy Barber (as Hinchcliffe andBarber) at the Bowen Gallery, Henley-on-Thames, Oxford Gallery, Oxfordand the British Crafts Centre, LondonExhibits in the Crafts Tent at the Edinburgh Festival and at the ChelseaCrafts Fair1985 Develops relationship with Poole PotteryStarts teaching part time at West Dean College, West Sussex andappointed part-time teacher of textiles at Clayesmore School, DorsetDaughter, Georgia, born in December1986-91 Sets up the Hinchcliffe and Barber Studio at Sixpenny Handley as adesign studio for textiles and ceramics and for producing studioware,employing three decoratorsDesigns ceramic tableware range, manufactured by James Kent Factory inStoke-on-Trent, for Next stores and the first Next DirectoryHinchcliffe and Barber issue Saville Pottery a license to produce Hinchcliffeand Barber’s core commercial ranges in Stoke-on-TrentHoniton and Poole Potteries licensed to produce selected Hinchcliffe andBarber ceramic rangesSari Fabrics and Blackstaff Textiles licensed to produce Hinchcliffe andBarber textilesContinues to show at Chelsea Craft FairExhibits in the museum touring exhibition at Bristol - Prophesy and Vision56 J o h n H i n c h c l i f f e J o h n H i n c h c l i f f e 57