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Solo Exhibitions

2023 - FREIZE Masters, London, 11-15th October presented by Adrian Sassoon Gallery 

2010 - Dynamic Structures: Painted Vessels Major Retrospective, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff

2000 - Metaphysical Vessels, Mobilia, Cambridge, USA

            Memory of Architecture - part II, Galerie Besson, London  Keramic Biennale, Lucerne,  Switzerland

1998 - Sea Pieces, Contemporary Applied Art, London

1996 - Retrospective, touring to Munich, Karlsruhe, Halle and Bellerive,Zurich

1994 - Order and Chaos, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, USA , Osiris Gallery, Brussels

1995 - Vessels from Another World, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, touring to the City Art Galleries of                         Aberdeen, Birmingham, Cardiff, London, Norwich

1993 - Retrospective, Pilscheur Fine Art, London

1991 - Retrospective, Hetjens Museum, Dusseldorf

1990 - Cross Rhythms and Counterpoint, Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

1989 - Retrospective exhibition, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham

1986 - Solo Room in British Art and Design exhibition, Künstlerhaus, Vienna 

1984 - Pots from Nowhere (fictional archaeology), Royal College of Art, London

1979 - Pots about Music, Victoria and Albert Museum, London 

1978 - Pots about Music, Temple Newsam House (Leeds City Art Galleries), touring to the City Art Galleries of Glasgow, Bristol,                   Bolton, Gateshead

1976 - Improvisations: Earth to Air, British Craft Centre, London 

1974 - Crafts Council, Waterloo Place Gallery, London

1972 - First show at Bing and Grondahl Porcelain, Copenhagen

Selected Group Exhibitions

2016 – Nine Potters – Anniversary Exhibition, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London

2003

2006 - Various Art Fairs including Collect, V & A; International Ceramics Fair, London; London Art Fair (Clare Beck at Adrian                   Sassoon); 

            SOFA New York and Chicago (Joanna Bird); Florida International Art Fair (Redfern Gallery)

2004 - Saved!, 100 Years of the National Art Collections Fund, Hayward Gallery, London

2003 - Five Artists, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles International Biennale, USA

            The Legacy of Modern Ceramic Art, Part 2, Ceramic Art from an International Perspective, Museum of Modern Ceramic                   Art, Gifu, 2003

2002 - Diaspora Cymreig, touring Welsh Arts Centres

2001 - Jerwood Prize exhibition, Crafts Council, London, touring UK

2000 -  Keramic Biennale, Lucerne, Switzerland

             British Ceramics 2000 DK, Keramikmuseet Gimmerhus, Denmark

1999 -  British Ceramics, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York  

             Ceramics and the Memory of Architecture, Gallery Marianne Heller, Heidelberg  

             World exhibition of Ceramics, Steningen Palace, Sweden

             Twenty-five Years of the Crafts Council at the V & A (Funerary Hoard), Victoria and Albert Museum, London

             A Dialogue in Clay, Artizana Gallery, Cheshire

1998 -  Fifty Years of Craft, Contemporary Applied Art, London 

1997 -  The Art of Function with Richard Smith and Richard Warholic, Lipworth International, Florida

             The Culture of the Stripe, Munich

1996 -  Jerwood Prize exhibition, Crafts Council, touring to Heidelberg and Munich

             The Other Vessel, Saarländische Künstlerhaus Saarbrücken

1993 -

1996 -  The Raw and the Cooked, Barbican Art Gallery, London, touring to MOMA, Oxford and Shigaraki, Japan

1993 -  Keramik Europas, Keramik Museum, Westerwald, touring to Denmark and Germany

1992 -  La Fabbrica Estetica, 100% Make Up, A. Mendini - Alessi, Italy

             Colours of the Earth, British Council, touring exhibition to the Far East  Keramiske Veje, Den Frie Gallery, Copenhagen

             Vier Elemente Drei Länder, Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt

1991 -  British Ceramics Now, Bellas Artes, New York  

             The Abstract Vessel, Oriel Gallery, Cardiff  

             Europäisches Kunsthandwerk, Stuttgart

1989 -  L'Europe des céramistes, European touring exhibition , Galerie Besson, London

             Abbaye Saint-Germain, Auxerre, France

1998 -

1989 -  British Council touring exhibition, Tokyo and Kyoto

1988 -  New Art Objects, Crafts Council, London - Amsterdam: 

             Sotheby's Decorative Arts Exhibition, London and Tokyo

1987 -  The Stamp of Fame, Fischer Fine Art, London

1986 -  Nine Potters, Fischer Fine Art, London

1985 -  Fast Forward, Institute of Contemporary Art, London and touring

1980 -  Image and Idea, British Council; exhibition touring to Australia and New Zealand

1979 -  Group Exhibition, Warwick Art Gallery, London

1977 -  Silver Jubilee exhibition, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

             Ceramics and Textiles, British Council touring exhibition to Middle East

1976 -  Ceramics Competition, Sopot, Poland  

             British Ceramics, Pennsylvania State University USA

1975 -  Two-person exhibition with Anya Barnett, Amalgam Art, London 

             British Design Exhibition, Mexico City

1974 -  Ceramic Forms, British Council touring exhibition to Europe

1974 -  Towards Ceramic Sculpture, Oxford Gallery

1972 -  Prize winner, Royal Copenhagen Jubilee Competition

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