Ewen Henderson

We are delighted to be working with the LAF team to share images and information on 100 Years of Ceramics - a specially curated display for LAF, installed in our Oxford space. From 1920s masterpieces by Michael Cardew, Shoji Hamada and Bernard Leach to the formal innovation of the Camberwell years in the late 60s and 70s represented in works by Ewen Henderson and Ian Godfrey; and some major 21st century and contemporary pieces by Philip Eglin and Paul Scott.

You can view the virtual 360˚ walkthrough exhibition here . Teabowl continues until 5 December.

Influential potter Hans Coper (1920-1981) was a champion of arts education. “His teaching had the same integrity and strength as had his pots; graceful, direct, precisely and sensitively tuned...” ...

Camberwell; Teachers and Students. At Camberwell College of Arts, two successive heads of ceramics, Dick Kendall and Ian Auld, helped to make the department what it was. They were great...

Oxford Ceramics Gallery are proud to announce a major exhibition of two and three-dimensional work by Ewen Henderson (1934-2000), one of the most important British ceramic artists of the twentieth century (he preferred the epithet ‘artist in fluxed earth’). Henderson began by making vessel forms, but gradually opened these out into more complex structures, with completely new clay combinations and qualities of surface which drew on his abstract vision, and his interest in urban and natural landscapes and forms. Regarded as very much ahead of his time, Henderson took clay to new levels of exploration, the ramifications of his work will continue to be felt for years to come.

The exhibition will feature a wide range of pieces made from the late 1970s until the end of the 1990s. These will include tall vessels, dishes, tea bowls and sculptural objects, as well as a rich selection of paintings and drawings, all demonstrating the powerful as well as delicate and intricate expression of Henderson’s searching art. Significantly most of the work in this selling show will be from the artist’s estate.

This ambitious show, following on from ‘William Staite Murray and his Pupils’, tells much of the remaining story that has made British studio ceramics such an exceptional but still undersung...