	David CLEVERLEY Dates: b.1958 Born in Hastings where he studied art, he went on to study painting at Goldsmith's College School of Art, London. Initially he made brown domestic earthenware decorated with sprigging but, after 1992, he began to make large slab built figures based on 18th and 19th century Staffordshire flat backs. He uses mythological, biblical and historical figures often combined with allegorical creatures. He adds words and titles printed on the platform bases to give each piece a humorous or ironic twist. 'I prefer to follow the strong English tradition of pottery, and borrow from late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Staffordshire makers, such as Walton, Whieldon and Sherratt, although my work differs in being hand built and individual, not press moulded production.'

David CLEVERLEY

Dates: b.1958

Born in Hastings where he studied art, he went on to study painting at Goldsmith's College School of Art, London. Initially he made brown domestic earthenware decorated with sprigging but, after 1992, he began to make large slab built figures based on 18th and 19th century Staffordshire flat backs. He uses mythological, biblical and historical figures often combined with allegorical creatures. He adds words and titles printed on the platform bases to give each piece a humorous or ironic twist.

'I prefer to follow the strong English tradition of pottery, and borrow from late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Staffordshire makers, such as Walton, Whieldon and Sherratt, although my work differs in being hand built and individual, not press moulded production.'