Contemporary Ceramics

Join us tonight at Contemporary Ceramics, Weds 24th July, 6 - 8pm for the opening of our newest exhibition New Members of the Craft Potters Association.

Featuring the work of twelve newly selected members of . This is an exciting opportunity to take an early look at the works on display and to meet the artists.

With Marina Bauguil, Daniel Chau, Moira Goodall, Björk Haraldsdóttir, Paul James, Jaeeun Kim, John MacKenzie, Ania Perkowska, Birgit Pohl, Amanda-Sue Rope, Jessica Thorn and Kate Windibank.

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Image - new work by Amanda-Sue Rope

UPCOMING EXHIBITION | New Members of the Craft Potters Association
Thursday 25th July - Saturday 17th August 2024
Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell St, WC1B 3BF

Introducing Jessica Thorn

"Convivial connection between ceramics, food and community is at the heart of my practice. My work delves into the themes of place, heritage, nourishment and clay as a material, provoking a deeper awareness of our surroundings." Thorn Ceramics

Join us at Contemporary Ceramics this Wednesday 24th July, 6 - 8pm for the exhibition preview. This is an exciting opportunity to take an early look at the works on display and to meet the artists.

With Marina Bauguil, Daniel Chau, Moira Goodall, Björk Haraldsdóttir, Paul James, Jaeeun Kim, John MacKenzie, Ania Perkowska, Birgit Pohl, Amanda-Sue Rope, Jessica Thorn and Kate Windibank.

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Today is the last day to catch our current exhibition Gabriele Koch.

Previously working with smoke firing processes, Koch’s recent work has developed a more graphic language which draws inspiration from the geology of a place and how the different layers of sediment combine in rock formations. Exploration with new techniques and materials, have seen her combine heavy black clay with white porcelain, working with texture and pale slips over dark clay to create new pieces that exude a compelling quietude.

Gabriele Koch runs until Saturday 20th July 2024.

Discover the exhibition online here https://buff.ly/3Ljhdlf
Shop in person at Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3BF.

UPCOMING EXHIBITION | New Members of the Craft Potters Association
Thursday 25th July - Saturday 17th August 2024
Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell St, WC1B 3BF

Introducing Kate Windibank.

"My work is inspired by the forms and textures of landscape and natural objects, but the concept behind the work is very much based on the human experience: The outer shell we build up to protect ourselves, the persona we project to the outside world and the truth of ourselves that we hide deep inside, which may actually be the most interesting and beautiful part of us."

Join us at Contemporary Ceramics, on Wednesday 24th July, 6 - 8pm for the exhibition preview. This is an exciting opportunity to take an early look at the works on display and to meet the artists.

With Marina Bauguil, Daniel Chau, Moira Goodall, Björk Haraldsdóttir, Paul James, Jaeeun Kim, John MacKenzie, Ania Perkowska, Birgit Pohl, Amanda-Sue Rope, Jessica Thorn and Kate Windibank.

For more information follow the link https://buff.ly/3S5Y4H4

UPCOMING EXHIBITION | New Members of the Craft Potters Association
Thursday 25th July - Saturday 17th August 2024
Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell St, WC1B 3BF

We are excited to invite you to the opening of our upcoming exhibition showcasing twelve new members of the Craft Potters Association.

Join us at Contemporary Ceramics, on Wednesday 24th July, 6 - 8pm for the exhibition preview. This is an exciting opportunity to take an early look at the works on display and to meet the artists.

With Marina Bauguil, Daniel Chau, Moira Goodall, Björk Haraldsdóttir, Paul James, Jaeeun Kim, John MacKenzie, Ania Perkowska, Birgit Pohl, Amanda-Sue Rope, Jessica Thorn and Kate Windibank.

Discover more here https://buff.ly/3S5Y4H4

A process of discovery!

"I work against a mirror to provide me with more distance to see the piece, and as I assess the progression of line and volume, shadows often fall across the form, or the form has slumped slightly. To continue with this suggestion is often exciting" Issue 238 Mindful Making, Ashley Thorpe.

Gabriele Koch runs until Saturday 20th July 2024.

Follow the link to discover the collection online https://buff.ly/3Ljhdlf
Shop in person at Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3BF.

Gabriele "Koch begins each piece by pinching a bowl shape in stoneware clays before coiling the sides to create each form."
Issue 238 Mindful Making, Ashley Thorpe.

The continuity in Gabriele Koch's making process alongside her exploration of wider themes of geological landscapes establishes shared narratives. Organizing individual pieces into groups sets up new conversations between form and surface.

Gabriele Koch runs until Saturday 20th July 2024.

Follow the link to discover the collection online https://buff.ly/3Ljhdlf
Shop in person at Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3BF.

"Hopefully people will respond to my work as it triggers associations they might have. I hope it can enrich someone's experience and environment beyond being a decorative object fitting into a designed space." issue 328, Mindful Making, Ashley Thorpe.

Gabriele Koch makes vessels. Her forms take the shape of spheres, and elongated lozenges. Yet, for all their simplicity, these are vessels that are not shy, they make their prescence felt. Their apparent lightness betrays their physical weight. The illusion of suspension skillfully created by close attention to the point where form meets surface.

Gabriele Koch runs until Saturday 20th July 2024.

Follow the link to discover the collection online https://buff.ly/3Ljhdlf
Shop in person at Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3BF.

"In Ceramics, there is something that lies beyond skill and experience: it is passion, an intensity which is evident in the work of Gabriele Koch." Tony Birks.

At the heart of Gabriele Koch's ceramic practice is the exploration of opposing tensions. Her deceptively simple forms investigate themes of balance and tension, stillness and movement, and the expansion and containment of volume.

For her current solo exhibition at Contemporary Ceramics, Gabriele Koch introduces a new body of work which sees a shift to low fired stoneware and celebrates the feel of unglazed clay.

Gabriele Koch runs until Saturday 20th July 2024. Discover the collection online https://buff.ly/3Ljhdlf and inperson at Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3BF.

Post: Gallery Assistant.

We are looking for an enthusiastic hard working person to fill this customer-facing and back office role in our retail gallery selling handmade ceramics. You will be working surrounded by beautiful objects as part of an inspiring and expanding creative business.

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John Higgins enjoys the challenge and excitement that comes from leaving room for the unexpected. He draws from a wide range of making techniques, employed to fulfil an idea rather than lead to a predetermined outcome.

New work includes a range of large bottles, hand-built in a black earthenware clay, with a textured matt exterior and glazed interior, and featuring a coloured collar.

Available in our online shop and in the gallery at 63 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3BF.

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Climate change, coastal erosion, and marine litter, influence Juliet Macleod's work. She repurposes shoreline waste such as metal, plastic, and rope into handmade tools for abstract mark-making. These tools are used to generate painterly, unique marks and repeating abstract patterns that reference specific coastal landscapes and the effects of changing weather and light.

Recent work includes these delightful beakers. Available in our online shop and in the gallery at 63 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3BF.

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Introducing Jaeeun Kim

Inspired by childhood memories of home being a place of comfort, these vases are from the series called ‘The Way Home’ and are slip cast in porcelain. Decorated with handmade ceramic transfers and brushable glazes, with marks, brush painted and scratched colours, and gold lustre. These rich and varied emblems hint at a multi-layered nature to memory.

Available in our online shop and in the gallery at 63 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3BF.

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In Masterclass (issue 313), Dylan Bowen talks of his early frustrations when first working with clay and how he later understood that during this time he "was trying to master how to work, not what to make..."

Dylan recalls "this one day when I made some marks with a slip trailer, loose aggressive marks with wet slip on top of wet slip and it felt like a door opening. My arm and hand had connected with my head. I could feel how to work, the marks were simple but the potential felt infinite to me."

Discover the expressive forms and mark making that grew from this moment of connection in our current exhibition, Dylan Bowen, Kinetic Clay.

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Until Saturday 22nd June 2024 at Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell Street, WC1B 3BF.

“I like the warmth and brightness of earthenware, the clay is thrown soft and altered or formed from soft slabs, it is then scratched, cut and marked and brushed in layers with pigment, slip, oxides, and glaze.”

Introducing lucious limes and leafy greens with new work from Barry Stedman, on display at Contemporary Ceramics and available in our online shop.

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"I think my lightbulb moment happened at least 15 years ago. I am still searching but it is okay. I am wary though of having a formula, thinking I have cracked the code but invented a set of rules for myself. The feeling of satisfaction is surely my enemy. I need to stay focused on trying to create work that has real freedom in it, freedom from materials, method or mentality. "

Dylan Bowen, Kinetic Clay at Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell Street, WC1B 3BF
Until Saturday 22nd June 2024

Shop the exhibition here https://buff.ly/3RkVlsU

So lovely to see JaeJun Lee, joining us for the installation of his upcoming exhibition The Blue in Pots, Thursday 2nd May - Saturday 25th May 2024.

Join us at Contemporary Ceramics this Wednesday, 1st May between 6 - 8pm for the exhibition preview. This is an exciting opportunity to take an early look at the works on display and to meet the artist.

Discover more here https://buff.ly/4bgE6QW

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Karen Bunting on Wednesday 27th March 2024. We send our sincere condolences and deepest sympathy to Karen’s family and friends.

Karen first began her journey with clay during the 1970s whilst working as a computer programmer. Realising her true vocation, and mainly self-taught, Karen worked briefly as a production potter in Yorkshire before moving back to London, and in 1977 setting up her first studio in Hackney, East London.

Drawn to a particular quality of stillness and sobriety found in ceramics, Karen aimed to make quiet and contemplative pieces, functional pots that revealed their qualities over time, through use and with handling.

Karen has been a member of the Craft Potters Association for many years. She was elected to join its governing council in 2009 and a year later became its chair, serving from 2010 to 2014. The Association awarded Karen an Honorary Fellowship in 2020. As an active member of the wider ceramic community, Karen was on the organising committee for Ceramics in the City, as well as being a trustee of Clay College - a training school in Stoke-on-Trent dedicated to educating new generations of potters.

Karen is survived by her husband Peter, daughter Lola, and son Johnny.

Karen Bunting 1949 – 2024.

Read more about Karen in her own words in this Ceramic Review article written in 2011. https://buff.ly/49plNrt

OPEN NOW | MATTHEW CHAMBERS
Thursday 28th March - Saturday 27th April 2024
Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell St, WC1B 3BF

Matthew Chambers’ meticulously constructed forms draw inspiration from geometric and optical art, constructivist themes, modern architecture and design. These interests are pursued in an abstract sense, by exploring shape and making mathematically constructed pieces in clay, each built up of many different wheel‑thrown sections.

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UPCOMING EXHIBITION | MATTHEW CHAMBERS
Thursday 28th March - Saturday 27th April 2024
Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell St, WC1B 3BF

Join us tonight at the preview evening for our new exhibition, Matthew Chambers.

"I am interested in the progression of pattern and how it can evoke different feelings depending on the structure, position, and flow."

Join us at Contemporary Ceramics tonight, Wednesday 27th March, 6 - 8pm for the exhibition preview. This is an exciting opportunity to take an early look at the works on display and to meet the artist.

Discover more here https://buff.ly/3PxTRe0

UPCOMING EXHIBITION | MATTHEW CHAMBERS
Thursday 28th March - Saturday 27th April 2024
Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell St, WC1B 3BF

We are looking forward to seeing you tomorrow evening at the preview for our upcoming exhibition, Matthew Chambers.

Join us at Contemporary Ceramics, this Wednesday 27th March, 6 - 8pm for the exhibition preview. This is an exciting opportunity to take an early look at the works on display and to meet the artist.

"My sculpture is born from the potter’s wheel. Each piece is constructed of many sections thrown and built to create a sculpture of complex individual beauty, with rhythm and symmetry in each form."

Discover more here https://buff.ly/3PxTRe0

UPCOMING EXHIBITION | MATTHEW CHAMBERS
Thursday 28th March - Saturday 27th April 2024
Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell St, WC1B 3BF

Preparations are underway for our upcoming exhibition with Matthew Chambers, whose
meticulously constructed forms draw inspiration from geometric and optical art, constructivist themes, modern architecture and design.

Join us at Contemporary Ceramics, on Wednesday 27th March, 6 - 8pm for the exhibition preview. This is an exciting opportunity to take an early look at the works on display and to meet the artist.

Discover more here https://buff.ly/3PxTRe0