Geoffrey Eastop
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File:Geoffrey Eastop at River and Rowing Museum exhibition, 2005.JPG, Henley-on-Thames, England, in 2005.]]
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Geoffrey Eastop (16 January 1921{{cite book|last=Rice|first=Paul|title=British Studio Ceramics|year=2002|publisher=Crowood Press|isbn=1861265298|page=222}} – 25 December 2014){{cite web |date=8 January 2015 |title=Obituary: Eastop, Geoff |url=http://www.nwnannouncements.co.uk/obituary/40354277 |accessdate=14 January 2015 |work=Family Announcements |publisher=Newbury Weekly News |location=UK}} was an English potter.[http://www.artfacts.net/en/artist/geoffrey-eastop-10879/profile.html Geoffrey Eastop — Biography], [http://www.artfacts.net/ Artfacts.net].
Biography
Geoffrey Eastop was born on 16 January 1921, in London. He studied at the Croydon School of Art; Goldsmiths' College; and at the Académie Ranson in Paris.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2YhUAAAAMAAJ |title=Potters |date=1994 |publisher=Ceramic Review Pub. Limited |isbn=978-0-9523576-0-5 |pages=50 |language=en |chapter=Geoffrey Eastop |via=Google Books}}
During World War II, Eastop served as an officer in the Royal Artillery, seeing action in the Netherlands and being lucky to survive.{{cite news| title=Geoffrey Eastop: An artist's life in pots | location=UK | newspaper=Newbury Weekly News | pages=44–45 | date=15 January 2015 }} After the war, he spent a year at the Odney Pottery in Cookham, Berkshire.{{cite web| url=http://www.studiopottery.com/cgi-bin/mp.cgi?item=156 | title=Geoffrey Eastop | publisher=Pottery Studio | accessdate=15 January 2015 }} From 1956, he collaborated with Alan Caiger-Smith during the early years of the Aldermaston Pottery (established in 1955) in the village of Aldermaston, staying there for six years. He then started his own pottery in Padworth. He remained in the same area around south Berkshire throughout his working life, finally being based near Newbury from 1985.
Eastop was a potter throughout his working life and collaborated with the artist John Piper, sometimes working at Piper's family home at Fawley Bottom in south Buckinghamshire.{{cite book | title=John Piper – Myfanwy Piper: Lives in Art | publisher=Oxford University Press | authorlink=Frances Spalding | first=Frances | last=Spalding | year=2009 | pages=456–457, 464 | isbn=978-0-19-956761-4}}{{cite book | title=The Piper Years: A Memoir | publisher=Zingaro Books | last=Eastop | first=Geoffrey | year=2011 | isbn=978-0-9566848-2-0}} He first met Piper in 1968 and they started working together in 1969.{{cite book| title=John Piper at Blenheim Palace | year=2012 | isbn=978-0-9502344-7-2 | chapter=Working Parties | pages=36–29 | publisher=Blenheim Palace | location=UK | first=Jeri | last=Bapasola }} Eastop set up a pottery at Piper's home in Fawley Bottom and the partnership lasted until 1985. Eastop made the pots and Piper decorated them. From 1985, Eastop established his own pottery in the village of Ecchinswell near Kingsclere, Hampshire.
Eastop's work has been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. In 2005, he had a solo exhibition of his work at the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Examples of his work are in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford), Portsmouth City Museum,{{cite book| title=Geoffrey Eastop: 40 years of change in studio pottery | url=https://openlibrary.org/works/OL11535126W/Geoffrey_Eastop | first1=Geoffrey | last1=Eastop | first2=Elizabeth | last2=Thomas | year=1992 | publisher=Portsmouth City Museum | location=Portsmouth | isbn=0904316092 }} Reading Museum, and Southampton City Art Gallery.
Eastop lived at Ecchinswell near Kingsclere in Hampshire{{cite web | url=http://www.newburyarts.co.uk/ArttsGalls/Geoffrey_Eastop.shtml | title=Geoffrey Eastop | work=Artists and Galleries | publisher=Newbury & District Arts Association, UK | accessdate=19 March 2012}} with his wife, Pat Eastop MBE (died 2014).{{cite news|url=http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/2014/family-pays-tribute-to-precious-inspirational-and-selfless-pat-eastop |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150118073227/http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/2014/family-pays-tribute-to-precious-inspirational-and-selfless-pat-eastop |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 January 2015 |title=Family pays tribute to "precious, inspirational and selfless" Pat Eastop |newspaper=Newbury Today |date=11 September 2014 |first=Ellis |last=Barker |accessdate=14 January 2015 }}{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11109218/I-have-intimations-of-mortality-every-day.html | title=I have intimations of mortality every day | newspaper=The Daily Telegraph | date=19 September 2014 | first=Vicki | last=Woods | accessdate=14 January 2015 }} They had three sons and one daughter. Eastop died at Oak Lodge, Oakley, on Christmas Day, 2014.
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External links
- [http://www.studiopottery.com/potters/eastopgeoffrey.html Pottery Studio information]
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