Paris Presentation - 'Making In' Hosted by Joseph Walsh Studio

April 2024

The Making In Documentary Film Premiere will take place at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, and I am honoured to have been asked to contribute to a panel discussion following the screening.

Directed by Pat Collins, the documentary film encapsulates the spirit of the seminar held annually at Joseph Walsh's Studio in Fartha, Co. Cork.

Making In on Instagram

2024 Exhibitions

In 2024 I will present new works in two key exhibitions.

The first will be my next London Solo Show with Erskine Hall & Coe in September 2024. These shows always represent a hugely important opportunity and healthy challenge for me; with the freedom to simply create my best work. I look forward to sharing images of the works when the show is open.

The second exhibition will be a collaborative exhibition with my friend and colleague Joseph Walsh . The exhibition will be held at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in October. Having spoken about working together for many years, it is a wonderful opportunity to create works that respond directly to each other.

'On Foot' Autumn 2023 - London Group Exhibition, Curated by Jonathan Anderson. Offer Waterman Gallery.

On Foot, curated by Jonathan Anderson, broiught contemporary artists into dialogue with iconic works of modern British art. Anderson’s own fashion designs for JW Anderson and LOEWE inhabit the spaces as viewers and bystanders to the works. Pieces from recent seasons have been chosen for the way in which they transform the body and give it sculptural potential. The exhibition unfolds like a walk through London, embracing the stark contrasts and unlikely juxtapositions that even a short journey through the city offers up.

Exhibiting Artists: Igshaan Adams, Frank Auerbach, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Hans Coper, Shawanda Corbett, Sara Flynn, Lucian Freud, Anthea Hamilton, Barbara Hepworth, Akiko Hirai, David Hockney, Leon Kossoff, Stanislava Kovalcikova, Florian Krewer, Doron Langberg, Jennifer Lee, L. S. Lowry, Henry Moore, Cedric Morris, Dame Magdalene Odundo, Walter Sickert, William Turnbull and Christopher Wood.

On Foot will be free and open to the public at 17 St George Street from 18 September until 28 October 2023.

Check out the Offer Waterman website here....

Solo Exhibition, France, 2023

My second French solo exhibition was held at Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste, Toucy, France in 2023.

The exhibition showed 30 x new pieces including new forms and surfaces.


Panels:

  • Member of the Experts Panel - Loewe Craft Prize - 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, and 2024
  • Member of the Golden Fleece Judging Panel - 2023 https://www.goldenfleeceaward.com
  • Member of the Judging Panel - RDS Craft Awards - 2018, 2019, 2020

Group Exhibition, Spring, London 2023

I am delighted to have been one of 21 artists to have shown works with Erskine Hall & Coe as part of their 'Small Works, Great Artists' Exhibition. April 2023.

Installation in the Permanent Collection of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum of Wales

2023. With many, many thanks to Erskine Hall & Coe and The Derek Williams Trust we can announce that this installation of mine has been acquired by the Derek Williams Trust, and in future will go on display at the Amguedddfa Cymru - National Museum of Wales.
Image courtesy of Erskine Hall & Coe ; photographer Stuart Burford

SOLO EXHIBITION... London, Summer 2022

Solo Exhibition of new works at Erskine Hall & Coe, June 2022...Click here to see the Installation Images of the exhibition

Click here to see the full list of works that were exhibited...

2020 Exhibition - Making and Momentum - In Conversation with Eileen Gray at E.1027

Shown at Wexford County Council

Read Wallpaper magazine's interview with Richard Malone here...

Making and Momentum : In Conversation with Eileen Gray, at E.1027

@makingandmomentum
curated by Richard Malone
An exhibition to celebrate the completed refurbishment of Gray's modernist masterpiece, after 7 years of refurbishment.


London Exhibition Review November 2020

I am really grateful to Emma Crichton Miller for her review in The Design Edit magazine of my most recent London exhibition in Erskine Hall & Coe. It's been so difficult for people to travel to see work 'in the flesh', this take on the pots is all the more appreciated.

In October 2019 I undertook a month-long residency in Sasama, Japan.

Sasama is a beautiful place in rural Japan. The ethos behind the residency is that the participants experience real life in a rural village and I can vouch for the fact that it was a hugely enriching experience.

The residency was followed by my participation in the International Ceramic Festival which takes place every 2 years...details via the link below..

https://www.icaf-sasama.com/artist2019

Ulster Museum - Acquisition for their Permanent Collection

The Ulster Museum in Belfast have added these 2 pieces to their permanent collection. The works will be on display in the Museum later in 2019. Purchased through and with the support of Erskine Hall & Coe in London.

In such quality company and surroundings at Loewe's new London Store recently... read the article in Vogue here

https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/loewe-london-store

NEWS - Special Award Winner - Golden Fleece Awards - 2019

Read the article on the Awards by Aidan Dunne in The Irish Times Culture here...

Collections:

  • Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum of Wales, Purchase funded by the Derek Williams Trust
  • The permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Purchase funded by Christopher M. Gorman-Evans
  • The permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Purchase funded by Christopher M. Gorman-Evans
  • The Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland
  • The National Museum of Ireland, Decorative Arts & History, Collins Barracks, purchased through the Contemporary Collection of Design & Craft, a joint initiative of The National Museum of Ireland and Design & Crafts Council of Ireland
  • Loewe
  • The Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada
  • The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England, U.K.
  • The Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland
  • The Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth House, Chatsworth, U.K.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, U.S.A. (Gift of Michael and Tamara Root)
  • Shanghai Municipal People's Government, China
  • Office of Public Works, Farmleigh House, Dublin, Ireland
  • National Museum of Ireland, Dublin
  • Columbus State University, Georgia, U.S.A.
  • Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
  • Irish Department of Foreign Affairs - Foreign Embassies Collection - Canberra, Australia (2005); Madrid, Spain and The Hague, The Netherlands (2007); Beijing, China (2013)

Selected Maker:

  • Design & Crafts Council of Ireland ‘Portfolio - Critical Selection’ - each year since 2006

Publications:

  • 'Contemporary British Studio Pottery - forms of expression', By Ashley Thorpe. Published by The Crowood Press, 2023
  • 'On Foot' Exhibition Catalogue, JW Anderson and Offer Waterman, London 2023
  • 'living with art we love' - The Duke & Duchess of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, 2022
  • Solo Exhibition Catalogue 2021, Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste, 'Sensuous Waves', Essay by Guillaume Morel
  • Solo Exhibition Catalogue 2020, Erskine Hall & Coe, Essay by Professor Simon Olding, Forward by Dame Magdalene Odundo OBE
  • Solo Exhibition Catalogue 2019, Sokyo Gallery, Essay by Jonathan Anderson
  • ‘New Wave Clay - Ceramic Design, Art & Architecture’ ,Tom Morris, 2018
  • 'Chance Encounters 3", Essay by Andrew Bonacina, Loewe Foundation Publication, 2017
  • Wallpaper*, 2017 - Review by Elly Parsons
  • Interview with Laura Bannister 2017 http://laurabannister.com/selected-writings/notes-on-chance-encounters/
  • 'Contemporary British Crafts - The Goodison Gift to The Fitzwilliam Museum', Amanda Game, 2016
  • Solo Exhibition Catalogue 2016, Erskine Hall & Coe, Essay by Emma Crichton-Miller
  • Solo Exhibition Catalogue 2014, Erskine Hall & Coe, Essay by Garth Clark
  • Ceramic Review - Jan/Feb 2013 (Interview by Angus Stewart)
  • Solo Exhibition Catalogue 2012, Erskine Hall & Coe, Essay by Sebastian Blackie
  • Irish Arts Review - Nov/Dec 2012 (Interview by Frances McDonald)
  • ‘Ceramics – Art & Perception’, Sept ‘09
  • ‘la revue de la Ceramique et du Verre’, July/August 2007
  • ‘NCG – Review, 2000 – 2004’, DCCOI Publication

Invited Demonstrator:

  • Sasama International Ceramics Festival, Sasama, Japan 2019
  • Ceramics Ireland International Festival 2010
  • University of Ulster 2011, 2012

Awards:

  • Golden Fleece Award - Merit - 2019
  • Loewe Craft Prize Finalist 2017
  • Golden Fleece Award - Merit - 2016
  • Peter Brennan Pioneering Potter Award, Ceramics Ireland, 2010
  • C.C.O.I. Travel Bursary Award 2006, 2007
  • Design & Crafts Council of Ireland (D.C.C.O.I). Research and Development Award 2005

International Residencies:

It is my pleasure to have been awarded the opportunity to work on three International residencies...

  • 2019 - Koryu Centre Sasama, Japan. A month-long residency in rural Japan. Generously supported by The Golden Fleece Award.
  • 2013 - Liverpool (U.K.), undertaking a 6-week residency at Hope University in partnership with the Bluecoat Display Centre and supported by The Crafts Council of Ireland.
  • 2011 - I was one of 13 Irish Makers selected to participate in a month-long residency in FULE International Ceramic Art Museums, Fuping, China

Invited speaker:


  • 'Making in/PLACE', Hosted by Joseph Walsh Studio, Cork. 2020. click here to see the video of the event
  • Chatsworth Arts Festival, Chatsworth House, England, 2019
  • Loewe 'Craft Conversations', IED, Madrid, Spain, 2019
  • Applied Arts Ireland and Northern Ireland (DCCoI), Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2018
  • 'Making In 2018', Hosted by Joseph Walsh Studio. Making in Art / Craft / Design / Architecture / Joseph Walsh Studio, Cork. View details
  • Crawford College of Art & Design - Cork, 2016
  • Irish Contemporary Ceramics Collection - Limerick School of Art & Design, 2015
  • Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum of America, 2010