recent pieces. Since the late 1970s Fritsch has considered "the space between the second and third dimensions", in her work; a concept she first described as "two-and-a-half dimensions" with her distinctive rhythmic patterns and optical effects. Dynamic Structures: Painted Vessels also marked her 70th birthday. Awards 2001: Shortlisted for Jerwood Prize for Applied Arts 2001: Ceramics 1996: Shortlisted for Jerwood Prize for Applied Arts 1996: Ceramics 1995: Awarded CBE:Commander of the British Empire 1995: Elected Senior Fellowship, Royal College of Art 1993: Gold Medali, Visuelle Spiele, International Handwerksmesse München, Germany 1987: Bernard Leach Centenary Post Office Stamp issue with Hans Coper & Lucie Rie 1980: John Ruskin Bursary for Fictional Archaeology project 1976: Gold Medal, International Ceramics Competition, Sopot, Poland 1972: Prize Winner, Royal Copenhagen Jubilee 1970: Silver Medal Royal College of Art: Herbert Read Memorial Prize Museum and public collections Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museum, Aberdeen Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, Bolton Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol British Council, Great Britain Crafts Council, London Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, Tyne & Wear Lotherton Hall, Leeds, Yorkshire Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough National Museums Liverpool, Merseyside National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh National Museum of Wales, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Victoria and Albert Museum, London York Art Gallery, York Kunstindustrimuseet, Copenhagen, Denmark Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany Museum of Design, Zürich Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan Solo exhibitions 2010: National Museum Cardiff, Wales, UK. Dynamic Structures: Painted Vessels, October 2010– January 2011 2008: Fine Art Society - London November -December. 2007: Retrospective, Bonhams, London 2007: Anthony Hepworth Gallery, Bath 2000: Metaphysical Vessels, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2000: Memory of Architecture, Part II, Besson Gallery, London 1998: Sea Pieces, Contemporary Applied Arts, London 1995–6: Retrospective touring to Munich, Karlsruhe, Halle and Bellerive, Zurich 1995: Metaphysical Pots, Bellerive Museum 1994–5: Order and Chaos, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1994: Osiris Gallery, Brussels 1993–5: Vessels from Another World, Northern Centre for the Contemporary Arts, Sunderland, travelling to Aberdeen, Birmingham, Cardiff, London, Norwich, UK 1992–3: Retrospective, Pilscheur Fine Art, London 1991: