Discovering The Avenues of Business For A Potter | Matthew Blakely | Episode 863
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Matthew Blakely set up a pottery and gallery in Australia and was a selected member of The Potters Society of Australia and Craft Australia. Matthew returned to the UK in 2002 and set up a pottery there. Matthew was selected as a Fellow of The Craft Potters association, and he served as a Council member for the CPA from 2010 til 2016. In 2010 Matthew was awarded an Arts Council grant to research the making of place specific ceramics. From 2017 to 2021 Matthew was a Trustee of Clay College Stoke, a new ceramics tertiary college and has been involved in fundraising, setting up, and running the college
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's cast. |
| 0:02.0 | A podcast home for potters everywhere. |
| 0:05.4 | It's a community of potters dedicated to grow their business. |
| 0:08.8 | We're picking up where the art degree ends. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:14.2 | Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, depending upon where you are. |
| 0:19.9 | How about just good tidings to you? |
| 0:21.8 | Welcome to episode number 863 of the Potter's cast. |
| 0:28.5 | Yes, I'm so stoked we're doing this show together today. |
| 0:32.5 | 863 episodes under the belt, well, 862 under the belt. |
| 0:37.4 | And we're getting ready to put another one under the belt right here today. |
| 0:42.4 | So welcome to the show. |
| 0:44.2 | We've got a phenomenal potter coming on this show. |
| 0:47.6 | His name is Matthew Blakely, and he is an amazing potter for one thing, but he's also a person that has been discovering |
| 1:01.2 | the avenues of business for a potter, like how he can create those streams of income or |
| 1:08.4 | that pathway to building a business that is directly centered around |
| 1:15.1 | ceramics and his making. And so this is, this is exciting because we've had on the show recently |
| 1:22.3 | people who have been just starting out, you know, where they're just graduating and or, and so it's great |
| 1:30.7 | to get that perspective. And now we come to Matthew Blakely, who's been a potter for quite a while |
| 1:36.5 | and has found that avenue. And so we're going to get that sage wisdom from him. |
| 1:45.9 | And so I'm really stoked about this. |
| 1:52.4 | And this is a journey across the pond, as I've heard people describe the Atlantic Ocean. |
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