Past
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Seeing With Another Eye
Book Launch Exhibition and Event 26 Oct - 16 Nov 2024 Oxford Ceramics Gallery is proud to present an exhibition specially selected by the distinguished collector Anthony Shaw, to coincide with the publication this year of the long-awaited book Seeing with Another Eye; The Anthony Shaw Collection (published by Arnoldsche, in association with the Anthony Shaw Collection). Book Launch Event Saturday... Read more -
British Art Fair
Visit us at stand 46 26 - 29 Sep 2024 Peter Collingwood Hans Coper Edmund de Waal Jim Partridge & Liz Walmsley Lucie Rie Rupert Spira Edward Teasdale Andrea Walsh John Ward Register your interest Read more -
Ideas in the Making
Jim Partridge & Liz Walmsley 13 Sep - 19 Oct 2024 'We are interested in the potency of useful things, and excited by their form and design... be they bowls, domestic furniture or the site specific infrastructure of everyday life'. Jim Partridge and Liz Walmsley. Ideas in the Making showcases latest work from pioneering furniture designers and makers Jim Partridge &... Read more -
Summer Show
19 Jul - 31 Aug 2024 Explore works from selected gallery artists in our Summer Show. Including pieces from contemporary artists Philip Eglin, Alev Ebuzziya Siesbye and Andrea Walsh; plus historic works by Ian Godfrey, Lucie Rie and Mary Rogers. Read more -
St Ives
Bernard Leach and the Early Pioneers 1920 - 1970 11 May - 13 Jul 2024 Richard Batterham (1936 - 2021) Norah Braden (1901 - 2001) Michael Cardew (1901-1983) Harry Davis (1910-1986) and May Scott (1914-1995) Shoji Hamada (1894-1978) Kawai Kanjiro (1890-1966) Bernard Leach (1887-1979) David Leach (1911-2005) Janet Leach (1918-1997) William Marshall (1923-2007) Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie (1895-1985) Tomimoto Kenkichi (1886 - 1963) Read more -
Bodil Manz
23 Mar - 27 Apr 2024 Oxford Ceramics Gallery are delighted to present over 30 new works from internationally renowned ceramic artist Bodil Manz. Read more -
The Artist's Eye : Andrea Walsh
2 - 16 Mar 2024 Read more -
Andrea Walsh
Solo Exhibition 10 Feb - 16 Mar 2024 'For over twenty years, Walsh has perfected how she captures the transient qualities of light through her sumptuous vessel forms. Following two years of research and development, which allowed her to concentrate on exploring the plasticity and varied surface possibilities of glass, she now presents a new body of work... Read more -
Twelve Potters
27 Jan - 3 Feb 2024 Hans Coper Elizabeth Fritsch Ian Godfrey Ewen Henderson Jennifer Lee Siddig el Nigoumi Magdalene Odundo Rupert Spira Lucie Rie Annie Turner William Staite Murray Robert Washington N ow online and available to view at our Oxford gallery space. Read more -
FROM JAPAN
1 Dec 2023 - 6 Jan 2024 Our winter exhibition celebrated leading contemporary and historic Japanese ceramics. Read more -
Autumn Show
23 Sep - 28 Oct 2023 Norah Braden Joanna Constantinidis Francine Del Pierre Ladi Kwali Janet Leach Magdalene Odundo Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie Lucie Rie Inger Rokkjær Alev Ebuzziya Siesbye Andrea Walsh Read more -
Handbuilt
8 Jul - 26 Aug 2023 Ian Auld / Gordon Baldwin / Alison Britton / Neil Brownsword Halima Cassell / Ruth Duckworth / Ewen Henderson / Ian Godfrey Gomi Kenji / Gillian Lowndes / Deirdre McLoughlin / Siddig el Nigoumi Machiko Ogawa / Colin Pearson / Mary Rogers / Angus Suttie Annie Turner / Alan Wallwork... Read more -
Richard Batterham
20 May - 24 Jun 2023 ‘The main work is not to make pots, but to allow then to come, to allow them to grow, to allow them to be alive.’ Richard Batterham Read more -
A Collector's Eye
A tribute to Bill Ismay 17 Mar - 6 May 2023 A Collector’s Eye is Oxford Ceramics Gallery’s celebration of the life and legacy of Yorkshire collector W. A. Ismay (1910-2001). He created one of the most comprehensive collections of British studio pottery between 1955 and 2001 now permanently housed at the Centre of Ceramic Art in York Museum. His time,... Read more -
Northern Lights
Three generations of Danish potters 27 Jan - 25 Feb 2023 Morten Løbner Espersen Gutte Eriksen Ulla Hansen Heidi Hentze Bodil Manz Inger Rokkjaer Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye Hans Vangsø Gertrud Vasegaard 'Northern Lights: three generations of Danish potters', a show celebrating the traditions and innovative spirit of modern danish ceramics. Read more -
Lucie Rie
12 Nov 2022 - 21 Jan 2023 ‘Every new work is a new beginning. Indeed I shall never cease to be a pupil.’ - Lucie Rie Oxford Ceramics Gallery is proud to present ‘Lucie Rie', our major winter exhibition celebrating the work and legacy of Lucie Rie (1902–1995), one of the most influential potters of the 20th... Read more -
OTHER LIVES
New ceramics by Rob Barnard and Julian Stair 8 Oct - 5 Nov 2022 ‘Other Lives’ is a newly curated exhibition produced in collaboration with US potter Rob Barnard and UK potter Julian Stair. Both makers have created a new body of clay vessels, in their distinctive personal voice but shaped by their mutual interest in the deep tradition of ceramics making, and human... Read more -
TEABOWL
9 Sep - 1 Oct 2022 ‘When you hear the splash of the water drops that fall into the stone bowl, you will feel that all the dust of your mind is washed away.’ Sen no Rikyū, 16th century teamaster Oxford Ceramics Gallery presents ‘Teabowl’, a celebration of perhaps the most iconic and revered of all... Read more -
John Ward
16 Jul - 20 Aug 2022 ‘Form above all, but expressed through light and colour.’ - John Ward Oxford Ceramics Gallery is delighted to pay tribute to the extraordinary work of the leading UK potter John Ward. Works spanning his career reveal one of the most distinctive voices in modern ceramics. VIEW WORKS Read more -
PORCELAIN
20 May - 2 Jul 2022 Niisato Akio / Dewa Eri / Gwyn Hanssen Pigott / Heidi Hentze Tomimoto Kenkichi / Ryoji Koie / Bernard Leach / David Leach Bodil Manz / Victor Margrie / Margaret O’Rorke / Mary Rogers Edmund de Waal / Andrea Walsh / Masamichi Yoshikawa / and more... Read more -
ARTEFACT 2022
10 - 15 May 2022 Rob Barnard / Joanna Constantinidis /Joe Hogan Maeda Masahiro / Deirdre McLoughlin / Jim Partridge Colin Pearson / Lucie Rie / Julian Stair Edward Teasdale/ Hans Vangsø / Andrea Walsh Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour, Lots Road,London. SW10 0XE Tuesday 10 May - Sunday 15 May, 10 - 5:30pm BOOK A... Read more -
SLIPWARE
OCG at Fen Ditton Gallery 8 Apr - 1 May 2022 Clive Bowen Dylan Bowen Michael Cardew Philip Eglin Sam Haile Shoji Hamada Bernard Leach William Newland Organised in collaboration with Fen Ditton Gallery and with the support of Amanda Game. Slipware was first launched at our Oxford gallery in 2021 and was re-imagined, with some new additions, for the beautiful... Read more -
Nine Potters
25 Mar - 30 Apr 2022 Richard Batterham Norah Braden Michael Cardew Shoji Hamada Bernard Leach Janet Leach William Staite Murray Helen Pincombe Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie This show features recent acquisitions which celebrate a golden era of Studio Pottery. Some highlights include a group of very early Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada works, a lovely group of... Read more -
COLLECT 2022
23 - 26 Feb 2022 For Collect 2022 Oxford Ceramcis Gallery exhbited works by Niisato Akio, Richard Batterham, Garry Fabian Miller & Dovecot Studios Edinburgh, Shoji Hamada, Ryoji Koie, Jim Partridge & Liz Walmsley, Lucie Rie, Higashida Shigemasa, Rupert Spira, Andrea Walsh, and John Ward. Alongside a selection of teabowls by contemporary and historic makers.... Read more -
Farnham
22 Jan - 5 Mar 2022 From the late 1940s onwards the attractive brick-built market town of Farnham in Surrey became home to two remarkable art school departments – specialising in ceramics and textiles respectively. Over the decades the two courses gained international fame and attracted students from across the world. Farnham Art School was initially... Read more -
On the Table
6 Nov - 22 Dec 2021 Rob Barnard Richard Batterham Alison Britton Simon Carroll Shoji Hamada Maria Hanson & Chris Knight Gwyn Hanssen Pigott Simone ten Hompel David Huycke Walter Keeler Grant McCaig Jim Partridge & Liz Walmsley Lucie Rie Giles Round Rupert Spira Julian Stair Adi Toch Edmund de Waal Yusuke Yamamoto 'So much of... Read more -
SLIPWARE
24 Sep - 30 Oct 2021 'I want to acknowledge the tradition of slipware whilst at the same time attempt to revitalise and invigorate it for the present' Philip Eglin The Slipware Spirit Slipware is a particularly rich English tradition with pre-Reformation roots. An early centre of its 17th century resurgence (thought to have come from... Read more -
Eye of the Collector
8 - 11 Sep 2021 PETER COLLINGWOOD HANS COPER PHILIP EGLIN ELIZABETH FRITSCH JIM PARTRIDGE & LIZ WALMSLEY LUCIE RIE RUPERT SPIRA JULIAN STAIR ANDREA WALSH 'Eye of the Collector is a new art fair for a new era where collectors have the opportunity to view and acquire extraordinary works of art in a safe... Read more -
'FROM JAPAN'
24 Jul - 11 Sep 2021 NIISATO AKIO / DEWA ERI / SASAKI FUMIYO KAWAI KANJIRO / TOMIMOTO KENKICHI / GOMI KENJI RYOJI KOIE / MAEDA MASAHIRO / HIGASHIDA SHIGEMASA MASAMICHI YOSHIKAWA / OSUMI YUKIE / IZUMITA YUKIYA Bringing together a range of work from Japanese artists, from new contemporary pieces to key works of the... Read more -
ARTEFACT
22 - 29 Jun 2021 SHOJI HAMADA / JOE HOGAN / BODIL MANZ / MAEDA MASAHIRO GARRY FABIAN MILLER with DOVECOT STUDIOS JIM PARTRIDGE & LIZ WALMSLEY RUPERT SPIRA / EDWARD TEASDALE VIEW WORKS Read more -
Hans Vangsø
Solo Exhibition 14 May - 3 Jul 2021 Presenting latest works from Danish maker Hans Vangsø. The pots are about a confident interaction of influence, and of clay, glaze and fire at their most directly expressive. The pots may nod to the Far East, but are made of Danish and German clays, and have more than a strong... Read more -
COLLECT 2021
26 Feb - 24 Mar 2021 We are delighted to be taking part in this year's COLLECT; the international art fair for contemporary craft and design which is now online PETER COLLINGWOOD / GARRY FABIAN MILLER with DOVECOT STUDIOS / BODIL MANZ / DEIRDRE MCLOUGHLIN / JIM PARTRIDGE & LIZ WALMSLEY / LUCIE RIE / RUPERT... Read more -
Pioneering Women
14 Feb - 1 May 2021 ALISON BRITTON / AKIKO HIRAI / LADI KWALI / JENNIFER LEE BODIL MANZ / DEIRDRE MCLOUGHLIN / CAROL MCNICOLL MAGDALENE ODUNDO / LUCIE RIE / INGER ROKKJAER Oxford Ceramics Gallery are pleased to present ‘PIONEERING WOMEN’, an exhibition featuring over 40 works by 10 pioneering female artists. The exhibition celebrates... Read more -
LONDON ART FAIR
British Studio Pottery: 20th & 21st Century Masterworks 20 - 31 Jan 2021 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. Read more -
BOXES
13 Nov - 19 Dec 2020 A collection of new works and historic pieces considering the theme of the contained or lidded vessel. // Niisato Akio // Michael Cardew // Edmund De Waal // Shoji Hamada // Ian Godfrey // Mo Jupp // Kawai Kanjiro // Tomimoto Kenkichi // Maeda Masahiro // Ken Matsuzaki // Bernard... Read more -
TEABOWL
9 Oct - 5 Dec 2020 You can view the virtual 360˚ walkthrough exhibition here . Teabowl continues until 5 December. Read more -
RYOJI KOIE: A TRIBUTE
25 Sep - 31 Oct 2020 We were extremely sad to learn of the death this summer of the wonderful octogenarian Japanese ceramic artist Ryoji Koie. We had already been planning a show this autumn to explore his life and work and are pleased to be able to still celebrate his exceptional contribution with this now... Read more -
BLUE & WHITE
*extended until Saturday 19th September 2020 17 Jul - 19 Sep 2020 FELICITY AYLIEFF / EDMUND DE WAAL / PHILIP EGLIN / CHARLOTTE HODES / CHUN LIAO / BODIL MANZ / NICHOLAS RENA / PAUL SCOTT / RUPERT SPIRA / JANICE TCHALENKO This summer, Oxford Ceramics Gallery is celebrating the blues by bringing together important works by artists who explore the aesthetic... Read more -
Hans Coper, Lucie Rie & Pupils
15 May - 11 Jul 2020 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...” In 2020, his centenary year, Oxford Ceramics Gallery celebrated this element of Coper’s work with Hans Coper, Lucie Rie and... Read more -
100 YEARS OF THE LEACH POTTERY
17 Jan - 28 Mar 2020 100 years of the Leach Pottery? This is quite an anniversary to mark, for without Bernard Leach’s workshop, established in 1920 with the help of his friend Shoji Hamada, studio pottery in this country, and indeed the world, might look very different. Just think of what Leach brought to ceramics,... Read more -
BODIL MANZ
14 Nov - 23 Dec 2019 Over 40 new works by Bodil Manz will be exhibted in the gallery this winter. Join us for a private view on Thursday 14th November, 5-7pm, when we will be screening a video made by Jacob Jorgensen in 2013; of her in her studio in Denmark. Read more -
GRAPHIC POTS
21 Sep - 26 Oct 2019 Bringing together works from both UK & International artists and makers who use the surface of ceramics to explore both personal and political ideas through the use of line, image and montage.
Featured Artists: Stephen Bird; Stephen Dixon; Philip Eglin; Bruce McLean; Hylton Nel; John Piper and Paul Scott.
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AKIO NIISATO
29 Jun - 9 Aug 2019 Born in Chiba in 1977, Akio Niisato is one of Japan’s leading porcelain potters. His work is influenced by classical Chinese and Japanese work, but it also has very modern northern European qualities of simplicity and concision, with his translucent, thinly walled cylinder and bowl forms pierced to make luminous... Read more -
NICHOLAS RENA: SUNDAY MORNING
11 May - 23 Jun 2019 This exhibition will showcase a body of Nicholas Rena's latest works, including a group of large scale bowls and vessels. Read more -
Ian Godfrey: An Enchanted Landscape
23 Mar - 6 May 2019 Oxford Ceramics Gallery is proud to present an important exhibition of the work of Ian Godfrey, the first show since Galerie Besson’s tribute in 2006, and its special display at SOFA Chicago in 2007. Ian Godfrey (1942 - 1992) was one of the most remarkable British potters of the last... Read more -
Collect 2019
28 Feb - 3 Mar 2019 Featured makers: Niisato Akio Peter Collingwood Ian Godfrey Bodil Manz Nicholas Rena Lucie Rie Rupert Spira Julian Stair Andrea Walsh Jim Partridge & Liz Walmsley Read more -
JAPANESE TEABOWL
26 Jan - 8 Mar 2019 Niisato Akio / Kenji Gomi / Suzuki Goro / Shoji Hamada / Ajiki Hiro Udagawa Hosei / Kawai Kanjiro / Shinobu Kawase / Ryoji Koie / Janet Leach Maeda Masahiro / Yoshikawa Masamichi / Otsuka Mokichi / Kakurezaki Ryuichi Tatsuzo Shimaoka / Kamoda Shoji / Fujii Tatsukichi / Shiro Tsujimura Read more -
Oxford Pioneers
10 Nov 2018 - 12 Jan 2019 Oxford Gallery (1968-2001) is a story of pioneering women, and the intertwined worlds of artists and craftsmanship. It is also a story inextricably linked with the art of ceramics which catalysed its foundation; formed a key part of its exhibition programme and has left the most visible legacy both here... Read more -
SHOJI HAMADA: 40 Years On
40 pieces included in this exhibition 13 Oct - 3 Nov 2018 Shoji Hamada (1894-1978) was so famous a potter, such an important figure in the history of studio ceramics and craft (in Britain and the USA as well as Japan), that it can be difficult, exactly forty years on from his death, to see his pots with new eyes. And yet... Read more -
CAMBERWELL
14 Sep - 6 Oct 2018 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 facilitators, potters from very different backgrounds who engendered a fertile and progressive atmosphere, one of the best places to learn... Read more -
SUTTON TAYLOR
16 Jun - 4 Aug 2018 Sutton Taylor’s vivid and shimmering lustres have become a very distinctive part of British studio ceramics in the last forty years. They epitomise the decorative opulence and sensuality, the technical mastery that can be achieved in this medium. He began working in lustre in the mid 70s, just when more... Read more -
EWEN HENDERSON
5 May - 30 Jun 2018 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. Read more -
HANS VANGSØ / LATEST WORKS
31 Mar - 28 Apr 2018 Hans Vangsø’s powerful pots have a strongly alchemic quality, bowls, jars and bottles that have a potent sense of the geology of clay and the geology of the land, more specifically in his case the texture and individuality of Mols, in north Jutland, where Vangsø lives and works. It is... Read more -
MASTERS OF STUDIO POTTERY, PART II / Post-War to Present
11 Feb - 24 Mar 2018 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 part of our art history. Here you have many of its most prominent figures, from the pioneering pots of Shoji... Read more -
MASTERS OF STUDIO POTTERY, PART I / William Staite Murray & His Pupils
12 Jan - 8 Feb 2018 Masters of studio pottery, Part I: William Staite murray & His Pupils' examines Staite Murray's variety of pottery, his influence, and the legacy of his work and of those he taught. Those taught by Staite Murray at the Royal College of Art all showed aspects of his influence, some more... Read more
