VENUE 27 - Potter of Leith, 10 Regent Place
Reduction Fired Stoneware
Andy Lang has over 40 years’ experience working with clay and with firing electric, gas and wood kilns.
His current work is reduction fired to Orton Cone 10 (1290c) and he specialises in wood ash glazes and the beautiful and elusive copper reds that are only possible in a reduction atmosphere. Reduction is not possible however in electric kilns as it requires live flames.
All of his glazes are developed and tested at the workshop from base materials; they are unique and not commercially available.
His work is both functional and decorative and is inspired by his passion for and relationship with his raw materials.
He designs and produces a range of tableware and one-off pieces and also accepts commissions, large and small.
Andy graduated with a BA in Ceramic Design from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in 1983. He set up and ran Naughton Ceramics in NE Fife in 1984 along with Margaret Struckmeier until 1994. He began teaching ceramics in Community Education at that time and continued until 2020. He now runs his own courses and workshops at Leith Community Pottery CIC, a Social Enterprise which was established in 2019 and offers support to those living with poor mental health and social isolation.
He has previously had 2 solo exhibitions at the Open Eye Gallery and has work in the collections of the McManus Gallery Dundee and in Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow.
More recently, he produced the tableware for the Borough Restaurant and the Bullfinch, Leith.
