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Ardmore Ceramics is an extraordinary South African success story. From humble beginnings on a farm in KwaZulu-Natal, it has grown since 1985 into a vibrant studio employing around 80 sculptors and painters on a freelance basis. Ardmore was the brainchild of artist Fee Halsted-Berning who trained the daughter of a farm laborer, Bonnie Ntshalintshali, to help her with her work. Bonnie showed such natural aptitude for ceramic art that within a few years Fee and Bonnie's work was being shown in galleries internationally.
Today Ardmore is South Africa's largest ceramic art studio, creating entirely original and uniquely South African pottery, which fascinates and enchants collectors all over the world. Specialist sales have been held at Christie's of London and Sotheby's in Johannesburg. An heir to the Coca Cola fortune has collected over 700 pieces and museums from New York to Zurich have acquired examples of Ardmore ceramic art - there is also an Ardmore masterpiece in the White House.
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