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 />
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