See Fen & Marble's Surprise Pop-Up With Local Ceramicists

For one weekend the model shop became a gallery, and the models were moved to the floor to make room for other people's work.

Shows like this one tend to be remembered for a single room, and the argument about whether the rest earned it starts on the second weekend.

Ana Sood, one of four ceramicists invited, has been close to it from the start.

Background

The studio gave the ceramicists the space, the lighting rig and a budget for plinths, and took no cut of sales.

It took three attempts. The first was abandoned at the end of the first month, the second survived until costing, and the third is the one standing.

By Sunday afternoon eleven of the nineteen pieces had gone.

They handed us the keys and left. That is rarer than it should be.

Sood

The method

Nothing was labelled. Prices were written on a single sheet by the door, which is also where the till was.

The measure will be whether anything changes afterwards, in the collection or the programme, rather than in the press release.

It has been well received by the audience it was made for and largely ignored by everyone else, which the team says is the outcome they wanted.

What they will not say, on the record, is how close it came to being cancelled in the spring.

Where it goes

The studio says it will do it again in spring, with glassmakers.