11 August – 9 September
 
Animal Fantasies
The interpretation of animals in clay is a practice that dates back 25,000 years, long before the production of pottery vessels. Animal Fantasies features representations of animal forms in a variety of figurative ceramic works created between the 18th and 21st centuries.
 
Historically, ceramic artists, from the Martin Brothers around 1900 to Picasso in the 1950s, have enjoyed using animal forms which hold mythological, allegorical and symbolic meaning. Here, contemporary makers including Catrin Howell and Meri Wells create a world of fantasy animals in both functional and sculptural ceramic forms.
 
Picasso: Histoire Naturelle
Considered to be among his most important graphic works, Pablo Picasso's naturalhistory prints were created in 1936 to illustrate the classic 18th century text, Histoire Naturelle by the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon.
 
The 31 prints were published in 1942 and feature creatures which appealed to Picasso throughout his childhood and his prolific career as an artist. In particular, the cockerel, the horse, the pigeon and the Spanish bull are represented here and had great personal significance to him, recurring in many of his works.