Goldmark 38, 2025

This issue marks our 38th outing of the Goldmark Magazine. Even more remarkably, our most recent pottery exhibition, with the wonderful work of Japanese potter Yoji Yamada (featured in this issue) is, I am told, our 70th ceramics monograph. How we have arrived at these numbers and are still standing, I don’t know – only that I am grateful for the support we continue to receive from our delightful friends and customers. I hope this latest offering – rich and eclectic as usual – provides some appropriate autumn reading material as the dark days start to draw in. Mike Goldmark

CONTRIBUTORS

Doug Fitch is a slipware potter currently based in Dumfries and Galloway, where he works alongside his partner Hannah McAndrew. Known especially for his reimagination of traditional English slipware forms and techniques, Fitch’s wood-fired work is held in major public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, amongst others.

Michael Kurtz won the International Award for Art Criticism in 2023, and his writing on contemporary visual culture has appeared in e-flux, ArtReview and The Spectator. He works as research assistant to Michael Peppiatt and listings editor at Art Monthly.

Charles Miller is the author of The Spiritual Adventure of Henri Matisse: Vence’s Chapel of the Rosary (Unicorn Press, 2024). An American by birth, he read Classics and received his doctorate in theology from Oxford University. He has taught theology, church history and spirituality in the USA, the UK and Russia. Ecumenical interests have shaped his intellectual world and guided his life-long interest in the plastic arts and the theology of beauty. He currently serves in the Diocese of Oxford as Team Rector of the Parish of Abingdon-on-Thames.

Olivia Laing is an internationally acclaimed writer and critic. They’re the author of eight books, including The Lonely City, Everybody and the Sunday Times number one bestseller, The Garden Against Time. They’ve written catalogue essays on many contemporary artists, including Andy Warhol, Agnes Martin, Derek Jarman, Wolfgang Tillmans and Chantal Joffe. Their collected essays on art, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency, were published in 2020.