Literature

Issey Miyake et.al., Issey Miyake Meets Lucie Rie, Sogetsu Gallery, Tokyo, 1989, with tour to Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, exh. cat., illustrated p.14-15 (a closely comparable work);
Cyril Frankel et.al., Lucie Rie, Hans Coper and their Pupils, exh. cat., Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, 1990, illustrated p.38 (a closely comparable work).

PETER COLLINGWOOD

One of the most important artist weavers working in Britain in the twentieth century, Peter Collingwood (1922-2008), has a close affinity with the work and lives of Lucie Rie and Hans Coper. Born in London, Collingwood spent time in Ditchling, East Sussex following the war, working in the studio of Ethel Mariet. He later worked for the weavers Barbara Sawyer and Alastair Morton (who later became the artistic director of Edinburgh Weavers). In 1957 Collingwood and Coper became two of the three artists in residence at educational Henry Morris’s newly founded Digswell Arts Trust.

Collingwood’s close personal friendship with Coper lasted beyond the years they spent together at Digswell, and in 1969 the pair shared an exhibition together at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Displayed alongside Coper’s stoneware ceramics, Collingwood created a new body of macrogauze hangings that have since become highly sought after by collectors across the world.