Angus Suttie
1946:	Born 26 November, in Tealing, Scotland.
1975-79:	Camberwell School of Art, London
1979-80:	Teacher training, Whitelands College, Putney, London
1980:	Teacher at Morley College, London
1981-84:	Shared a workshop with Sarah Radstone in the 4011/2 workshops
1984:	Workshop in Clerkenwell, London. Worked in stoneware
1986:	Teacher at Camberwell School of Art. Produced earthenware
1993:	Died on 17 June, from an HIV related illness
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Angus Suttie (26 November 1946 – 17 June 1993) was a studio potter and teacher of art ceramics

Ceramic art

In art history, ceramics and ceramic art mean art objects such as figures, tiles, and tableware made from clay and other raw materials by the process of pottery. Some ceramic products are regarded as fine art, while others are regarded as decorative, industrial or applied art objects, or as...

, most notably at Morley College

Morley College

Morley College is an adult education college in London, England. It was founded in the 1880s and has a student population of 10,806 adult students...

, London. Suttie studied at Camberwell School of Art under Glennys Barton, Ewen Henderson

Ewen Henderson

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 and Colin Pearson

Colin Pearson (potter)

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. This education promoted experimentation which rejected the Bernard Leach

Bernard Leach

Bernard Howell Leach, CBE, CH , was a British studio potter and art teacher. He is regarded as the "Father of British studio pottery"-Biography:...

 derived Anglo-oriental style, and emphasized wheel-throwing

Potter's wheel

In pottery, a potter's wheel is a machine used in asma of round ceramic ware. The wheel may also be used during process of trimming the excess body from dried ware and for applying incised decoration or rings of color...

.

Background

Suttie was born on 26 November 1946, in Tealing, Scotland. His initial interest was drama. After completing his education in Art Ceramics

Ceramic art

In art history, ceramics and ceramic art mean art objects such as figures, tiles, and tableware made from clay and other raw materials by the process of pottery. Some ceramic products are regarded as fine art, while others are regarded as decorative, industrial or applied art objects, or as...

, he also completed teacher training

Teacher education

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 at Whitelands College

Whitelands College

Whitelands College is one of the four constituent colleges of Roehampton University. One of the oldest higher education institutions in England, predating every university except Oxford, Cambridge, London and Durham, it was founded by the Church of England’s National Society in 1841 as a teacher...

, in Putney

Putney

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, London. (1979-80).

Early works

Suttie shaped his articles principally with rolled slabs of leather-hard clay

Clay

Clay is a general term including many combinations of one or more clay minerals with traces of metal oxides and organic matter. Geologic clay deposits are mostly composed of phyllosilicate minerals containing variable amounts of water trapped in the mineral structure.- Formation :Clay minerals...

 body to create geometric forms, which he cut and reassembled into larger forms. Suttie's preference was for hand-building and he was inspired by objects and forms from pre-industrial societies

Pre-industrial society

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. These were often in pastiche of traditional domestic

Home

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 objects including anthropomorphic vessels such as jugs and teapots, which were part container and part figurative form. His functional, yet slightly baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 works, are vividly colored, and often stand on oddly positioned legs or are seemingly off-balanced.

Later works

As part of a developing tradition of abstraction

Abstract art

Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an...

 in contemporary ceramics, Angus' works became less rectilinear

Rectilinear

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 and more organic in appearance and as time went on, much larger than their domestic counterparts. In addition they became more serious and the protrusions came to resemble rows of thorns or tank tracks.

His later works have been described as reflecting and celebrating his life, personal relationships and his deteriorating health. His work displays a diversity of influences, including contemporary abstract ceramics, modern North American ceramics, and Pre-Columbian

Pre-Columbian

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 American art

Visual arts of the United States

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.

Literary contributions

Suttie was also a contributor to The Ceramic Review, Revue de la Ceramique et du Verre, Studio Pottery etc. and his works are held in some significant 20th century ceramics collections around the world, including the Victoria & Albert Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

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, Crafts Council

Crafts Council

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, The Fred Marer Collection at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, and the Smart Museum of Art

Smart Museum of Art

The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art is an art museum located on the campus of the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. The permanent collection of over 10,000 objects includes works by Francisco Goya, Frank Lloyd Wright, Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Diego...

at the University of Chicago.
He was also a member of the Gay Left collective in the 1970s. A memoir of his early years, From Latent to Blatant, was published in issue number 2 of the Gay Left journal and can be accessed at http://www.gayleft1970s.org.