Celebrating 45 years of exceptional ceramic artistry by Tim Andrews, a master of his craft.
Inspired by Bernard Leach’s retrospective exhibition at the V&A, Tim honed his skills through apprenticeships and set out on his own journey to create timeless, soul-touching pieces. Explore the chemistry between technical precision and serendipitous expression in his labour-intensive works, featuring a mix of throwing and hand-building techniques and finished with raku-firing.
“My work represents an ongoing dialogue between the technical sophistication of processes, serendipity, and timeless human qualities” – Tim Andrews
Tim’s pieces, marked by black and white linear decoration and bold splashes of colour, can be found in public and private collections worldwide. Tim is a fellow of the Craft Potters Association, Honorary President of the Westcountry Potters, and the author of two books on Raku.
Jenny Southam hand builds figurative sculptures in terracotta clay. She delights in exploring colourful gestural mark-making over their surfaces. This painterly decoration aims to echo the emotional resonance of each piece.
“When I enter the studio I am searching for that serene state of absolute absorption that making and drawing can gift us, which we all wish will, in some manner, enrich our audience.” – Jenny Southam
In a career spanning nearly 50 years, ceramicist, Sophie MacCarthy has developed a unique and distinctive personal style. Through her subtle and bold use of coloured slips, painterly brushwork, stencils and wax-resist, she evokes the colours, forms and movements of the passing seasons. Often focusing on the ground, she finds beauty in the accidental compositions created by wind-blown leaves, stalks and detritus sometimes gathered around a storm drain or scattered over concrete and tarmac, juxtaposing the vibrant colours of the natural world with the gritty textures of the urban environment.
‘She has a poetic insight into the natural world’ David Whiting
Throughout his long career Peter has always sought pathways to the development of new ideas. Often this is a slow process, but sometimes a particular event speeds things along.
Partaking of two residencies in China recently, where Peter worked in porcelain at high temperatures, led him to develop a new body of work, made alongside his existing practice to which Peter is still deeply committed.
This new exhibition represents the outcome of Peter’s working practice.
'This exhibition explores objects that express a quiet equilibrium: fragile, shifting forms that exist in a state of delicate imbalance. Their stillness is easily disturbed, as if the act of holding too tightly might cause something essential to disappear. The works reflect an interest in forms that resist perfection, remaining slightly unresolved, unsettled, and quietly alive.' Akiko Hirai
