...exploring the nature of the contemporary in relation to the natural and manmade, through hand building flax paper porcelain, creating jars, bowls and vessels that reveal subtle layering, intricate lattice work and pigmented lamination.
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
Self-employed Ceramic artist, maker and designer since September, 2015 undertaking exhibitions and private commissions.
Part time teaching for MA Design and Ceramics specialism supervision of currently one doctoral student at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
PAST RECENT ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Retired from my Full Time post as Principal Lecturer, Course Director of the BA(Hons) Ceramic Design Course and Subject leader for ceramics the MA Design: Ceramics, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London from 1990-2015.
PUBLICATIONS AND LECTURES
2021
Page 450 my work is referred in 'Ceramic,Art and Civilisation' by Paul Greenhalgh, Bloomsbury, ISBN 978-1-4742-3970-7
Virtual lecture and porcelain handbuilding demonstration for Ceramics students at Central Saint Martins, UAL
2020
Founding contributor to 'Cambridge Ceramics' selling website www.cambridgeceramics.com
Founding member to Creative Skills Network 'Show and Tell' October
2019
Article in ‘Ceramics: Art & Perception’ issue 111 magazine, USA featuring my work by Paul Bailey
Lecture on our Ceramics and Glass Practice with Stewart Hearn, Beijing Institute of Technology. December
2018
Lecture for the -symposium 'Crafting Futures' at Safi, Morocco for the British Council, March.
Combined lecture on our glass and ceramic practice of myself and Stewart Hearn to the Glass Society, Clare,Suffolk. November.
Country Living: MODERN LIVING issue #12, 4 x works featured. December
2017
Article in ‘Clay Craft’ issue 2 magazine featuring myself and 6 artists who showed at the Ceramic Art London show in March 2017. Pages 34 -37
Tutor for a ceramics workshop as part of an Arts Council funded project with a book 'Chatteris in Myth and Memory: Art through Storytelling. Edited by Polly Howat, ISBN 978-1-936556-82-3 June
2016
Lecture ‘Ceramic Design at Central Saint Martins: Make or Break’ for the ClayTalks@CAL.
'Material Practices’ examination of the changing practices of learning with and through ceramics over the past 30 years. Teaching & Learning Exchange hosted ‘Lost & Found: pedagogies, past, present and emergent at UAL 1975-2015.
2015
‘What We Do’ lecture and demonstration of my work to a research forum of colleagues at Central Saint Martins.
2014
Article featuring myself and BA Ceramic Design CSM, Ceramics Technical Journal by Paul Bailey, USA
2012
2 Images and explanation of my work ‘The Workshop Guide to
Ceramics’ ISBN 978050051 Duncan Hooson & Anthony Quinn
2009
3 Images and explanation of my work ‘Contemporary Ceramics’ by Emmanuel Cooper, Thames & Hudson ISBN-10: 0500514879
2009- 11
Design and craft consultant for Belleek Pottery for their unique handbuilt basket collection.
2007
Images and description of process in ‘Colouring Clay’ by Jo Connell by A&C Black ISBN-10: 0713676280
mages and explanation of my work ‘Ceramic Design Course Principles, Practice, and Techniques’ by Anthony Quinn (ISBN: 9780764137334) Thames & Hudson
2006
Kathryn Hearn, Anthony Quinn, article ‘The Craft of Design: In celebration of the Maquette’, BLUEPRINT 249, pp.83-90 ISSN02684926
Images and explanation of my work in ‘Porcelain and Bone China’ by Sasha Wardell published by The Crowood Press (ISBN:9781861266934)
2003
Two page section called 'Strata - casting' page 66-67 ‘CERAMICS materials for inspirational design’ by Chris Lefteri published by Rotovision ISBN 2-88046-668-7
2001
‘Jasper and the Potter’ article in ‘Ceramic Review’ issue 118 March – April, 4 pages Editor and Commissioner Emmanuel Cooper.
1997
Journal Article ‘Learning by Experience, waking up to new design
opportunities.’ With photographs for ‘Studio Pottery, Ceramics in Society’ No 32 pp 47-48 ISBN:09684158
1996
Article for ‘Studio Pottery’, April/May titled ‘Ceramic Design: Theory and Practice’ with photographs.
1988
Photograph and text in 'Mastering the Craft' by Richard Zakin ( A & C Black,London)
WORK IN VARIOUS PRIVATE AND PROFESSIONAL COLLECTIONS
Shipley Museum & Art Gallery, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear
Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston, Staffordshire
William Ismay Collection, Centre of Ceramic Art (CoCA), York
Contemporary Ceramics Collection, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Jon Catleugh Collection, Boston Art Gallery, USA
Preston Fitzgerald , Arts Advisor, Curator, Collector, London
EXHIBITIONS
2022
December,Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, Christmas Open Weekend with Stewart Hearn, Alexander Pearce and John Mckeon Group Show
December 'Bespoke for a Book', collaboration and group exhibition with Stewart Hearn for a unique book cover to launch ' Craft Britain' book by Helen Chislet & David Linley at Chelsea Barracks
April 8,9,10th, Ceramic Arts London, selected Fair by CPA & Ceramic Review, showed at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London. Group show
1 May to 25 September. Avant Gardeners: Group show at Houghton Hall, Norfolk curated by Contemporary and Country
2 x Open Weekends in July, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, Cambridge Open Studios with glass blower Stewart Hearn, Group show.
2021
December,Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, Christmas Open Weekend with Stewart Hearn, Alexander Pearce and John Mckeon Group Show
19 May to 26 September. Rock, Paper Scissors (Alongside a retrospective of Tony Cragg): Group show at Houghton Hall, Norfolk curated by Contemporary and Country
2 x Open Weekends in July, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, Cambridge Open Studios with glass blower Stewart Hearn, Group show
2020
May 2020- April 2022, Primavera Gallery, College Farm,Haddenham, Cambridgeshire. Installation of 'Osiery & Pickled in Peat ' in the Willow Walk. Solo show
December,Pangolin Gallery, Kings Place London, ‘Christmas Collection’, Group show.
December,Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, Christmas Open Weekend with Stewart Hearn and Alexander Pearce, Group Show
2019
May, 3 day pop-up Kirtling, Cambridgeshire, 'Sight Lines' exhibition with Andrew Jones, Michael Walton and Valerie Emmons, Group Show
2 x Open Weekends in July, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, Cambridge Open Studios with glass blower Stewart Hearn, Group show
December,Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, Christmas Open Weekend with Stewart Hearn and Alexander Pearce, Group Show
2018
November 15th - 24th December, Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery, London,Present & Collect selling exhibition, Group show
December,Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, Christmas Open Weekend with Stewart Hearn and Alexander Pearce, Group Show
September 28th- 30th,Chiswick Mall, London,Ebb & Flow, five pop up gardens with seven artists, Group show
June 23rd –September 16th, Groundwork Gallery, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, Regarding Nature, visual artist Chystel LeBas, Outfalls artist, Judith Tucker & poet, Harriet Tarlo and Fenland porcelain, Kathryn Hearn, Group show
September 18th - 25th,Miller’s House, Bromley-by-Bow, London Design Festival, Tactile Minds, Group show
May 20th - June 24th, Parndon Mill Gallery, Harlow, Walking on Ancient Ways at with painter Tessa Pemberton and Kathryn Hearn. Group show
March 3& 4th,Guildhall, Cambridge, Innovations in Ceramic Art, Group show
2 x Open Weekends in July, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, Cambridge Open Studios with glass blower Stewart Hearn, Group show
December,Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, Christmas Open Weekend with Stewart Hearn and Alexander Pearce, Group Show
2017
October, Himalayan Garden & Sculpture Park, Richmonf, Sculptural Ceramic Exhibition, Group show
September, The Sentinel Gallery, Wivenoe, Essex, Group show
September 1st, 2nd & 3rd, Chiswick Mall, London, Thames Festival, ‘Loded Undertow’ Pop up Garden Sculptures in two gardens with Artist’s Caroline Winn, Jackie Haddon Wedlake, group show
July, Pangolin Gallery, Kings Place London,‘Sculptural Ceramics & Stone’ Group show
March 31st-April 2nd, Ceramic Arts London, selected Fair by CPA & Ceramic Review, showed at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London. Group show
Jan- Mar, Pangolin, Kings Place, London,New Work Showcase, Group show
Jan- Feb, University of the Arts London, ‘Craftmanship Alone is Not Enough’ 100 years of Ceramics at Central Saint Martins, Group show
2 x Open Weekends in July, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, Cambridge Open Studios with glass blower Stewart Hearn, Group show
December,Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, Christmas Open Weekend with Stewart Hearn and Alexander Pearce, Group Show
2016
July-Sept., The Byre Gallery, Millbrook, Plymouth ‘Out of the Picture’ Summer Show, Group show
July- Aug, Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery, London, New Member’s Showcase, Group show
2 x Open Weekends in July, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, Cambridge Open Studios with glass blower Stewart Hearn, Group show
April 8th,9th,10th ‘Ceramic Arts London’, selected Fair by CPA & Ceramic Review, showed at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London
December,Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, Christmas Open Weekend with Stewart Hearn and Alexander Pearce, Group Show
Oct-Dec, The Byre Gallery, Millbrook, Plymouth, Christmas Show, Group show
2015
December,Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, Christmas Open Weekend with Stewart Hearn and Alexander Pearce, Group Show
December - April, Pangolin, Kings Place, London,New Work Showcase, Group show
2014
June,‘Tendence’, Messe, Frankfurt, ‘Vandal Collection’ in collaboration with Anthony Quinn, Group show
September,London Design Festival, ‘ultra indigo’ design studio, Somerset House, London ‘Droves, Drains & Vermuyden’, Solo show
March, 'Atheneum',Heversham, Cumbria, Group show including Michael Eden, Victoria Eden, John Kershaw, Group show
December,Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, Christmas Open Weekend with Stewart Hearn and Alexander Pearce, Group Show
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS FOR CONTEXT
2003
Jasperware for Wedgwood at Tokyo Design Week.
Curator of 'ARCHItexture' exhibition, Lethaby 2, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Jasper pieces displayed by ‘Josiah Wedgwood Museum’
2002
'Museum in the Making', Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Contemporary Jasperware exhibited by Wedgwood in the Galleria at Ambiente, Frankfurt.
2001
‘Jasper Blues’, Exhibition in 8 glass cases in V&A around the rotunda showing my work alongside Wedgwood Jasper from the V&A and Barlaston collections.
1999
‘Contemporary Decorative Arts’, Sotheby’s, London curated by Janice Blackburn.
'Learning from the Past' exhibition, London Institute Gallery
1998
100% Design with Wedgwood collection of black and white jasper.
1996
‘Looking Forward to Looking Back’ , Group Exhibition, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London
1995
Two person show with printmaker, Denise Wiley at Edith Grove Gallery, Chelsea, London
1994
‘Added Value’, Group exhibition, curated by Kathryn Hearn, Lethaby Gallery, London
1993
‘Contemporary Decorative Arts’, Group Exhibition, Sotheby’s, London curated by Janice Blackburn.
'Pushing the Boundaries' exhibition, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.
1987
Group Show Booth House Gallery, Holmfirth
Group Show, 'Kamatzu' Washington, Tyne and Wear
Group Show, Galerie de Verbeelding, Belgium
Showcase, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear.
1986
Group Show, Cleveland Arts Centre
Group Show, Galerie de Vier Linden, Holland
Two Person Show, Ladygate Gallery, Beverley, Yorkshire
PROFESSIONAL / INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE
2012
Research and Edit of the 5th Edition of The Craft and art of Clay by Jan Peterson and Susan Peterson. Laurence King publishers
2012
Work and process discussed with images in ‘The Workshop Guide to ceramics’ by Duncan Hooson and Anthony Quinn, Thames & Hudson ISBN 978-0-500-51621-8
2010 Book Reviewer on surface design for AVA Publishing SA