We carried pottery to the future in Avanos...
GALİP KÖRÜKÇÜ
His knowledges stems from his youth as he was born and grew up in Avanos where he, as well as his 3 brothers, learned the craft from his father. Chez Galip’s pottery has been a family business for six generations.
Educated in Nevşehir and Ankara his art has developed a unique quality. Besides his international reputation with his workshops and lectures, Galip become famous with his unique “hair museum” (Guines Book of Records) with which he gained the 6th place of peculiour museums in the world.(ABC news)
LILIAN VAN DER ZEE
Between 1975 and 1980 she worked as an arttherapist in a psychiatric hospital and in the children’s department of the antropological Tropical museum in Amsterdam.
During a travel through Turkey she met the potter Galip Körükçü who invited her to stay and help to decorate his pottery. Between 1980 and 1982 she worked and learned with Galip in Avanos as well as in Holland in the studio of ceramist Ina Bakker, from who she learned many other ways of looking to clay and art and learned different techniques of firing, glazing, kiln making.
