Sat Feb 17-Sat Mar 24, Mon-Fri 10am-5pm Sat noon-4pm, Collins Gallery, Glasgow, free, 0141 548 4145 Turner Prize-winning cross-dresser Grayson Perry may have raised the profile of ceramics but he's not the only eccentric in the village. Cornwall-based Simon Carroll has been dubbed the "wild man" of the medium - partly thanks to the occasion in 2003 when he took on the role of a potter's wheel, inviting fellow ceramicist Martin Lungley to throw a pot on his head.
Carroll's exuberant, asymmetrical pots - often dripping with slip gaze, which contains a high proportion of clay - command attention with an almost aggressive urgency. This is especially true of this "non-functional forms", which look as though they may have a role to play in some sinister ritual.
Carroll considers Picasso and Matisse important influences but, for this show - which originated at the Tate Gallery at St Ives in Cornwall - he has also cited an eccentric roster of inspirations. These include "Staffordshire slipware, Elizabethan ruffles, an American military jacket I saw in a book, three Mexican sombreros and fish".
The 21 pots in the show are accompanied by prints, paintings, drawings and photographs representing other areas of his practice. These include gigantic, highly ornate "beach drawings" - often of ceramic pots, sometimes with flowers - which he makes with a rake on the sands of the Cornwall coast.
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