From The Wheel To The Lathe | Nicholas Lees | Episode 846
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Nicholas Lees has a string of degrees from University of Kent (BA), University of the West of England (BA), University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (MA), and the Royal College of Art (MPhil). Nicholas has work exhibited in the UK and overseas and in public collections, including York City Art Gallery, Westerwald Keramikmuseum in Germany, and Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Italy. His awards include the Cersaie Prize, Faenza and Nicholas was a Senior Lecturer at Bath Spa University between 2000 and 2010 and is now a Visiting Lecturer at RCA and UCA Farnham.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast. |
| 0:01.9 | 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 | Hey, hey, hey, welcome to episode number 846 of the Potter's cast. |
| 0:22.3 | And may I start out this episode by saying, |
| 0:25.7 | Happy birthday to you. |
| 0:29.2 | Happy birthday to you. |
| 0:31.7 | Happy birthday, dear Nicholas. |
| 0:36.3 | Happy birthday to you. Okay, today is our guest birthday. Yes, Nicholas Lees is |
| 0:46.3 | turning some kind of age today. And so, yes, I just thought that we would start the day with singing happy birthday. |
| 0:55.9 | So, and yeah, yeah, we've got a great guest coming on today. |
| 0:58.8 | We did this interview when it was not his birthday. |
| 1:03.8 | It was a couple of weeks ago, a few weeks back, and he came on the show and shared his amazing story with me. |
| 1:19.6 | And I got to tell you, you may want to take a moment and just stop the episode or just grab the phone and go over to the show notes page and take a look |
| 1:32.8 | at his work because he does crazy things with ceramics. I named a couple of episodes ago, |
| 1:45.7 | might even have been the last episode. I can't remember if it was the last one or a couple back, I had the subtitle saying, you can't do that with clay. |
| 1:52.6 | And that's pretty much the same sentiment that I have with this episode of where I say, |
| 1:59.9 | you can't do that with Clay. |
| 2:02.3 | I can't believe he's doing what he does with Clay. |
| 2:04.9 | It should not be done. |
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