Ceramic Review - January - February 2008
"Brownsword regenerates this material into structures and landscapes with various levels of meaning. The work comments on and explores the history and social experience of working in the city's pottery industry."
Article reprinted with kind permission of Ceramic Review
Crafts - March - April 2008
"I hope visitors take the time and trouble to understand the work because this is an artist who is nudging the perceived boundaries of clay, imbuing this most traditional of materials with rare meaning."
Article reprinted with kind permission of Crafts Magazine
The Week - 28 February 2008
"Still only in his thirties, Neil Brownsword is celebrated among his fellow potters for his technical expertise and radical imagination.... (his) sculptures - strange relics of some cataclysmic eruption - are both an elegy for lost skills and a critique imposed on the drudgery of generations of workers."
