Janet Adam
{{Short description|Scottish potter and sculptor (1940–2021)}}
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| name = Janet Adam
|image=Janet Adam.png
| birth_date = 14 January 1940
| birth_place = Edinburgh, Scotland
| death_date = 1 September 2021 (aged 81)
| education = Edinburgh College of Art
}}
Janet Adam (14 January 1940 – 1 September 2021) was a Scottish potter and sculptor. She was a founding member of the Scottish Potters Association and active in it for 47 years.
Biography
Adam was born in Edinburgh on 14th January 1940, to Barbara Eunice Marindin and Captain Charles Adam, as one of four siblings.{{Cite web|last=Packard|first=Ann|date=29 October 2021|title=Scotsman Obituaries: Janet Adam, respected Scottish potter|url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/scotsman-obituaries-janet-adam-respected-scottish-potter-3436948|access-date=12 January 2022|website=The Scotsman}} Adam attended West Heath Girls' School. After working as a secretary, she learned pottery on the Isle of Mull in the late 1960s. She moved to Edinburgh in the 1970s and was instructed in pottery through independent learning and a part-time course at Edinburgh College of Art.{{Cite web|title=Janet Adam - The Adam Pottery|url=http://adampottery.co.uk/newSite/artist.php?name=JanetAdam|access-date=2022-01-12|website=adampottery.co.uk}}{{Primary source inline|date=January 2022}}
Adam first founded the Cannonmills Pottery in the 1970s on Warriston Road in Edinburgh.{{Cite web|date=17 June 2014|title=LONG BUILDING MAY NOT BE LONG FOR THIS WORLD|url=https://www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk/news/long-building-may-not-be-long-world|access-date=12 January 2022|website=Spurtle: Broughton's Independent Stirrer}}{{Failed verification|date=January 2022|reason=per source: "Janet Adam rescued it from dereliction to operate as the Canonmills Pottery until 1983"}} In 1983 the workshop moved to Henderson Row where it was named Adams Pottery.{{Cite web|date=2014-11-30|title=An Adam Pottery Christmas|url=https://www.stockbridgeedinburgh.com/adam-pottery-christmas-weekend-2014/|access-date=2022-01-12|website=Stockbridge Edinburgh|language=en}} It served her and five other potters as a studio and workshop space.
Adam's work was primarily based around making functional individual pieces of pottery. She was a founding member of the Scottish Potters Association and contributed to it for 47 years.
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Category:20th-century Scottish women artists
Category:21st-century Scottish women artists
Category:Artists from Edinburgh
Category:Alumni of the Edinburgh College of Art
Category:Scottish women sculptors
Category:Scottish women ceramicists
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