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The Journal of Australian Ceramics Vol 52 No 1 April 2013

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handmade brown 1970s New Zealand ones.<br />

Prefer Chinese or European variants on the<br />

Chinese."<br />

Stratton produced the 'teapot growth chart', a<br />

timeline from 900AD to the present to accompany<br />

Nurturing Dialectics, that makes apparent<br />

the way his ceramic and social preoccupations<br />

coalesce. <strong>The</strong> timeline strings together childrearing<br />

didates, war statistics, great moments in<br />

design typology, and personal milestones. '<strong>The</strong><br />

birth <strong>of</strong> Richard Stratton (1970)', comes soon<br />

after' American media begin to write about<br />

Anorexia Nervosa, and the birth <strong>of</strong> Barbie (1959), .<br />

All work by Richard Stratton<br />

Right: 200 to 1 Teapot, 2009<br />

Below: Old Sins Cast Long Shadows exhibition installation<br />

2009 Anna Miles Gallery, Auckland<br />

THE 10URNAl OF AUSTRALIAN CERAMICS APRil <strong>2013</strong> 29

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