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A radical pottery for artists since 2014. Residencies, classes, shop, and @hoxton.gardenware youth programme. Founded & directed by @aaron.angell

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New stock coming for late summer - lots of reduction stuff coming by end of August but for now firing lots of oribe and hagi. Very temperamental hagi glaze now working again better than ever after months of failures. Lots of good shiga oribe coming out of the kiln including some with this matte black-green RSA based oribe I have been working on. taken in Troy Town Art Pottery by @troy.town

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🥒 I'm very thrilled to share the first images of group exhibition "Tutti Frutti" at the Centre d’art contemporain d’Anglet, on view until September 19, 2026.

curated by Anne-Laure Lestage, with a scenography by Jade Marçais and a graphic design by Miquel Hervás Gómez and César Rogers

Featuring works by: Mikhail Andreenko, Georges Braque, Déborah Bron and Camille Sevez, Miriam Cahn, Sol Calero, Emma Cogné, Dan Coopey, Max Ernst, Ingela Ihrman, Agate Kalnpure, Loumi Le Floc’h, Wei Libo, Lulu MacDonald, Romanich Pavel Medem, Takako Saito, Troy Town, Manuel Wroblewski

"Tutti Frutti" brings together a selection of works by eighteen artists, including sculptures, installations, paintings, videos and objects, which share a material, formal or cultural connection with the world of markets. Composed of fruits, vegetables, stalls and peels, the exhibition addresses consumption, production and food, while reminding us how art, like good produce, nourishes both body and soul. (…)"

Images © Alexandra Vaquero

Centre d’art contemporain d’Anglet
Galerie Pompidou, Free entrance
Open Tues-Sat, 2-6pm

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Kodai day by @troy.town

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2 months ago

Colin Self

Drawings and plans for ‘Saturn Bowl’, 1980 by @troy.town

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Troy Town is pleased to announce that our next artist in residence is Colin Self (b. 1941)

Colin Self is one of the original English pop artists. He began working in the early 1960s, and through a seven-decade career Self has long been seen as the ‘Political conscience’ of a scene which largely dealt with consumerist imagery and explorations of mass media. As opposed to the majority of his peers, Self’s work from the sixties onwards dealt explicitly with the existential and sociopolitical strains of the so-called ‘cold war’. An early example of this being his drawings of American fallout shelters, crude models of nuclear bombers, and his piece ‘The Nuclear Victim (Beach Girl)’. The latter was first shown at the ICA’s inaugural exhibition ‘The Obsessive Image’ in 1968, alongside a version of Paul Thek’s celebrated ‘Tomb: Death of a Hippy’ installation.

Self’s deep devotion to printmaking and drawing led the artist Richard Hamilton to call him ‘the best draughtsman in England since William Blake’. In the 1970s, Self began a working partnership with the potter Mathies Schwarz in Germany, producing many ceramic sculptures together. For his residency at Troy Town, Self will be producing a number of unrealised sculptures from this period, based on drawings from contemporaneous sketchbooks.

Colin Self lives and works in Norwich. Except for brief representation by Robert Fraser, Self has operated for his entire career as an independent artist. Self has never used a computer or mobile phone.

Troy Town would like to thank Colin, his family and in particular Coleen Self for their support in realising this project.

Slide 1: Portrait of Colin Self, 1972, Norway
Slide 2: Colin Self - Nuclear Victim (Beach Girl), mannequin and mixed media, 1966
Slide 3: Colin Self - Gardens with Green Garden Sculpture, pencil on paper, 1966-9
Slide 4: L-R - Colin Self, Robert ‘Groovy Bob’ Fraser, Brian Jones, and dancers at Fraser’s gallery, c. 1966
Slide 5: Colin Self - Leopardskin Nuclear Bomber No. 2, mixed media, 1963
Slide 6: Colin Self -Bowl on Fist, ceramic, 1972
Slide 7: Colin Self - Empty Cinema (St. Valentine’s Day Massacre), pencil on paper, 1968
@colself @troy.town taken in Troy Town Art Pottery by @troy.town

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70 new pieces are now available to shop online or in-studio, including a restock of plates. This kiln represents the last of our current prepared ash supplies so expect some new and different glazes from our spring firings. taken in Troy Town Art Pottery by @troy.town

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@bethanlaurawood tour around London for @tmagazine by yours truly. I’ll always treasure this adventure of a day.

Thank you for everything always to the spectacular @jamie.e.bradley

Featuring @oldspitalfieldsmarket
@jolene_redchurchstreet
@troy.town
@jaspermorrisonshop
@friendsof_towpathcafe by @troy.town

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SECONDS SALE TOMORROW (SATURDAY 10th) 10:30 AM - 4PM - 3-£5-£10-£20-£30 AND SOME BIG SECONDS FOR MORE - ALL ON THE TABLES - EXACT CASH OR CARD - PLEASE BRING BAGS taken in Troy Town Art Pottery by @troy.town

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FAMOUS SECONDS SALE - THIS SATURDAY 10:30-4pm - PLEASE BRING BAGS - CARD OR EXACT CASH - AROUND 200 SECONDS AND ARCHIVE PIECES ON THE TABLES - REGULAR SALE PIECES ALSO SHOPPABLE - NB IF YOU ARE COMING THIS DAY TO COLLECT PIECES PURCHASED ONLINE PLEASE COME AFTER 2pm. THANK YOU X taken in Troy Town Art Pottery by @troy.town

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An article about @troy.town by @omfgnoway featuring @aaron.angell and Bashō in the current issue of @hauserwirth @ursulamagazine 📸 @dunjaopalko by @troy.town

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7 months ago

Dear all,

The Troy Town sale is now live on the Troy Town shop. We produced more than usual this winter because of our having two physical shops this time, and we desperately need our rack space back for the coming year’s firings. Therefore there is a lot of stock available now at reduced prices, with reductions up to 50%.

This sale is online only until our seconds sale on the 10th of January, where all remaining sale pots will be shoppable in-studio. Our seconds sale will include an array of archive pots and recent seconds from as low as £5. More details to follow on this ever-popular event in the new year.

All pieces in the regular sale are available for delivery or collection (from the 7th Jan). Please allow 10 days for any shipments to be sent out as this is always a very busy period.

best wishes and happy digging (and happy new year)

AA taken in Troy Town Art Pottery by @troy.town

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