Gallery 'Opening' Spring Exhibition 3rd April 2020
Organised and curated by David Mullin
Dave Mullin
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The exhibition focuses on emerging and established potters and artists from the Welsh borders and includes slipware from David Mullin and Nigel Lambert, stoneware from Ben Keenan and Hajeong Lee, abstract landscape art from Siwan Gillick and jewellery from Alice Keeler. |
Siwan Gillick
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David, Siwan and Alice are all winners of the “Emerging Artist” bursary from h.Art, the Herefordshire Arts Week which happens every September (Please note that h.Art 2020 has been cancelled).
David makes slipware, increasingly from local clays, inspired by the landscape of the Anglo-Welsh border, 16th and 17th century Staffordshire slipware and the “country pottery” tradition.
Siwan makes expressive, abstract paintings using oils and a variety of mark-making techniques, but landscape is fundamental to her practise and she bases her paintings on sketches made outdoors, particularly in the Black Mountains.
Alice originally studied textile design but moved towards silversmithing and jewellery and finds inspiration from gardening, finding simple shapes of flora and the beauty of decomposition.
David makes slipware, increasingly from local clays, inspired by the landscape of the Anglo-Welsh border, 16th and 17th century Staffordshire slipware and the “country pottery” tradition.
Siwan makes expressive, abstract paintings using oils and a variety of mark-making techniques, but landscape is fundamental to her practise and she bases her paintings on sketches made outdoors, particularly in the Black Mountains.
Alice originally studied textile design but moved towards silversmithing and jewellery and finds inspiration from gardening, finding simple shapes of flora and the beauty of decomposition.
Alice Keeler
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Ben Keenan showed his work for the first time at h.Art in 2019. He makes functional stoneware pottery, fired in a gas kiln in his studio space in Garway, close to the Welsh border. He also uses local ingredients, including wood ash from his house stove, in his clay and glazes. |
Ben Keenan
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These emerging makers are joined by established potter Nigel Lambert, who makes wood fired slipware. Nigel has an international reputation and his functional pots have bold, expressive decoration. He is inspired by abstract painters, but his approach is firmly from a potting point of view, rather than a painterly one.
Nigel Lambert
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Hajeong Lee is also an established artist, having studied at Sungshin Women’s University in Seoul and was the winner of a number of Korean art prizes for her ceramic sculptures. She now lives in the UK and focusses on making tableware which fuses traditional Korean techniques with designs of the Arts and Crafts movement. As well as showcasing new artists and potters, the exhibition is unified by approaches to mark-making, use of colour and the inspiration of nature and the landscape. |
Hajeong Lee
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