Walter Keeler is a British studio potter specializing in salt glaze pottery. Named Welsh Artist of the Year in 2007, Keelers work is held in a number of public collections including Victoria & Albert Museum, American Craft Museum New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art Tokyo.
Walter was professor of Ceramics at the University of the West of England from 1994 to 2002. His bold and imaginative pieces have been heavily influenced by early Staffordshire Creamware, while taking his own unique formations.
He believes his work grows from his passion for ‘pots from the past’ and the joy of making and firing itself. Sometimes making simple, useful, things like mugs or jugs, while on other occasions creating things that are a lot less straightforward. These pieces make demands, challenging the user to negotiate with an unexpected pot, that seeks to do an ordinary job.
“I hope my pottery brings with it seriousness, some humour and sensual pleasure.” – Walter Keeler
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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