CONTEMPORARY
CERAMICS
Kate
D’Arcy,Yozo Hirayama, Jacqueline Lewis, Catriona Macindoe, Lindy Mason,
Thérèse Melville
The Coningsby Gallery
22nd –
27th November 2010
Private View Tuesday 23rd 6pm
– 8.30pm
Hidden behind a busy North London street is a quiet courtyard where
a group of ceramic artists work in a co-operatively run studio.
In this exhibition, celebrating the
workshop's tenth anniversary, are
s
ix different approaches to the infinite possibilities of
clay.
Influenced by
their diverse studies and backgrounds, each artist responds to themes which
propel his/her creativity. Works are both hand-built and
thrown.
Kate D’Arcy makes domestic ware, large and small, both at the
wheel
and hand built. They are fired at stoneware with
subtle, subdued glazes, and occasional bursts of vibrant colour. She is
influenced by Japanese ceramics and English medieval
pottery.
Yozo Hirayama: The
elemental feel of the clay in Yozo Hirayama’s work is recognizably
Japanese. Though he came to London as a young man to study painting, once he
started working with clay his Japanese heritage came through. His vessels ask to
be completed by arrangements of flowers, stems and leaves.
Jacqueline Lewis explores variations on the vessel form.
Gestural markings and tonal variations reveal her love of music, musical rhythm
and travel. Porcelain and stoneware bodies are thrown and altered. She has
developed a body of
s
alt glazed work and more recently has produced an electric fired
range.
Lindy Mason: Having
originally trained as a contemporary dancer, Lindy Mason’s elegantly
poised vessels express balance and the tension between stillness and movement.
There is a striking contrast between the earthy clay and the delicate forms she
creates, often inspired by plant forms, especially seed
heads.
Catriona Macindoe
progressed from studying painting to working with clay. She explores the
possibilities of the material, ranging as it does from paint like liquid to hard
stone. Inspired by the landscapes she has traveled, her work embraces vessels
and sculptural objects, while balancing the planned with the
accidental.
Thérèse Melville’s organic forms
explore the dynamic of expansion and contraction, emergence and retreat. She
works fast and spontaneously, altering thrown vessels or stretching wet slabs of
clay to their limits. Other pieces introduce a narrative element based on fairy
tales.
Contact
Studio Six
3 Wedmore
Street
London
The Coningsby Gallery
30 Tottenham Street
London W1T 4RJ
T. 020 7636 1064
E. helendriver@coningsbygallery.com
The Coningsby Gallery
30 Tottenham
Street
London W1T 4RJ
T. 020 7636 1064
E.
helendriver@coningsbygallery.com
