20 Jun 2024

New book charts history of humankind through ceramics

From Nights, 9:30 pm on 20 June 2024

What can we learn about the Roman empire from a single pot?

Glenn Barkley is a curator and ceramicist based in Sydney Australia, and the author of Ceramics: An Atlas of Forms, which charts the course of human history through over 100 ceramic objects.

He speaks to Emile Donovan from his home in Australia.

Glenn stands by a table covered in ceramics. He smiles.

Photo: Ainslie & Co Photography / Supplied