User:Leonard Griffin

Leonard Griffin is the author of six books on Clarice Cliff, the Staffordshire ceramicist

• 'The Best of Clarice Cliff' (Best 50) with Sevi Guatelli published May 2008

• 'Clarice Cliff: The Art of Bizarre' (Pavilion) published in May 1999/April 2001

• 'Fantastic Flowers of Clarice Cliff' (Pavilion) published in August 1998/ April 2001

• 'Taking Tea with Clarice Cliff' (Pavilion) published 1996

• 'The Rich Designs of Clarice Cliff' (with Green and Jones) Rich Designs puiblising 1995

• 'Clarice Cliff the Bizarre Affair’ (Abrams/Thames & Hudson)1988

Commissioned writing on Clarice Cliff

• K. G. Saur Verlag: commissioned to write the Clarice Cliff section for the ‘Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon’ published in 1998

• Macmillan : commissioned to write Cliff section for the ‘Dictionary of Art’ 1996

MEDIA / Consultancy

Fielding's Auctioneers, Stourbridge West Midlands : Consultant on Clarice Cliff from January 2008

Christie's Auctioneers, South Kensington London: Consultant on Clarice Cliff 1989 to 2007

BBC Radio 4 : Consultant for The Bizarre Girl a 75-minute radio drama on Clarice Cliff’s life and work, broadcast in December 2000

Wedgwood : Consultant to the Wedgwood Museum for the 1999 Centenary exhibition. Consultant for reproduction ware from 1992 to 2002

BBC-TV Mastermind: wrote questions on ‘Clarice Cliff’ in 1992

INTERNET / MAGAZINE

Clarice Cliff Collectors Club : founded in 1982, with members in Britain, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and North America. Review magazine published 1982 to 2004

CCCC Internet Club is on www.claricecliff.com (founded October 1998)

Lectures

On Clarice Cliff: April 2000 at the Carters International Convention in Sydney. January 2000 at the New York Ceramics Fair in America. November 1999 at the 20th Century at Olympia, London. March 1999 at the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada. December 1998 20th Century at Olympia, London. August 1997 inaugural lecture at Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, February 1997 gave the ‘learned lectures’ at Napier Art Deco Festival

Other Exhibitions: Keith Murray exhibition at the Hawkes Bay Museum, Napier, 1996/1997. Clarice Cliff exhibition at the Museum het Princessehof, Leeuwarden, Holland 1994. Organised 1988 Bizarre Affair exhibitions in London and Warrington

Other Radio/Television : Appearances in Britain, Australia, New Zealand and America speaking about Clarice Cliff, Keith Murray and Art Deco, most recently BBC Radio 4, Prime TV, New Zealand, and Radio New Zealand. In February 2003 on BBC West Midlands, in February 1999 on Channel 4 Collector’s Lot, in October 1998 the Antiques Show on BBC 2

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