Taste Contemporary present The Fabulous Fem [5], a group exhibition of ceramic and textile art at Cromwell Place, London from 14th to 19th March 2023. Focusing on a group of Norwegian women artists who emerged in the 1970’s – with the addition of one, younger artist – the exhibition aims to shine a light on this important group of artists whose contribution to ceramic and textile art is being increasingly recognised by international audiences. The...
FELT launches its first collection of new artworks and contemporarycraft for the home, with a showcase exhibition and sale on 15th October2021. FELT is a place for discovering and buying artworks and contemporary craft for the home, with a focus on skills ranging from embroidery and weaving to ceramics and painting. (Top of page – Rachna Garodia, Richmond Park, 58cm x 80cm, Framed Handwoven with nettle, cotton, jute, linen, raffia and wheat and maple keys,...
Celebrating the best of European design from pottery by Hans Coper to jewellery by Henning Koppel and furniture by John Makepeace, Lyon & Turnbull’s Modern Made auction on October 23rd brings to market important works from across the European design canon. (All images courtesy of Lyon & Turnbull) Works by Modern British artists are headlined by The Red Curtain, a key Camden Town school oil by William Ratcliffe (1870-1955). Dated to c.1916 (it was included...
A new exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s ceramics opens in March 2020 at Huxley-Parlour Gallery. It is the first time the artist’s ceramics will be exhibited as a solo show in a commercial gallery in London. Pablo Picasso’s ceramic works have generated significant interest in recent years. With subjects varying from Greek mythological figures, animals, faces and even scenes of the Spanish corrida, his pieces are united by an accessible and playful aesthetic that carries the...
Oxford Ceramics Gallery has announced plans for its 2020 season of exhibitions, starting with 100 years of The Leach Pottery which runs until March 14th 2020. Founded in 1920, The Leach Pottery helped shape studio ceramics as we know it today, and is a cornerstone of ceramic history. The exhibition includes over 200 works sourced from across the globe from these masters of ceramics: Bernard Leach, Shoji Hamada, Michael Cardew, Kawai Kanjiro, and Tomimoto Kenkichi;...
Wallace Chan’s first solo show in the UK, SHAPESHIFTER: The Multiverse of Wallace Chan, ran at Asia House in London from 14th-17th September 2019. Previewed at a busy launch event on 13th September, the exhibition featured 20 jewellery pieces realised using Wallace Chan’s latest innovation – a super-strength porcelain that is five times harder than steel. Also on show were 10 titanium sculptures, demonstrating the jewellery artist’s mastery of both materials. Ambition Tracing the development...
Peter Harrington Gallery of Chelsea has an exhibition of limited edition linocuts, etchings and lithographs, ceramics and books signed by Pablo Picasso, running from March 19th to April 13th. Highlights include: Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, 1934 first and limited edition, first printing, number 1,103 of 1,500 copies signed by Picasso. This finely produced work features Picasso’s sensitive line drawings, which carefully “capture the braggadocio of both the men and women in the play”. Priced at £5,750. Portrait...
Jewish Museum London will highlight the work of British-Jewish ceramicists in the exhibition Shaping Ceramics: From Lucie Rie to Edmund de Waal, from 10 November 2016 – 26 February 2017. The exhibition explores how Jewish émigré ceramicists changed the face of British studio pottery, as well as how they influenced a generation of British-born post-war ceramicists. The show also looks at how contemporary Jewish ceramicists are reflecting their Jewish identity through their work. The work...
