Education
1970-71 Cardiff University, Post Graduate Certificate of Education
1965-69 Hornsey College of Art, London. B.A. Ceramics
Awards
2025 Finalist in ‘Award’ British Ceramic Biennial
2018 British Council & Arts Council funding to participate in the Indian
Ceramic Triennale Jaipur August – November and research my new project
From Dark to Light and Back
2017 Craft Potters Charitable Trust grant to support touring exhibition ‘Containing Time’
2008 Craft Potters Charitable Trust grant to continue research on Indian potters
2005 World Ceramics Biennale Korea, Diploma of Honour
2003 Commissions East grant for participation at NCECA conference San Diego
2003 Travel to research Native American Indian Pottery in New Mexico
2002 Craft Potters Charitable Trust grant for a gas kiln
1996 Eastern Arts Travelling Grant to India
1991 Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award, New Zealand – Merit
1980 British Council Scholarship to Keramisch Werkcentrum, Holland|
Collections
Grasses Museum of Applied Arts Leipzig Germany
Goteborg City Art Collection Sweden
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Stoke on Trent
Handelsbanken Konstförenin Stockholm
Icheon World Ceramic Centre, Korea
Stadsmuseum, Oldenburg, Germany
Aberdeen Museum
Bolton Museum
Currier Museum New Hampshire USA
British Airways Executive Collection, Gatwick Airport
Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Henry Rothschild
And many private colections in England and abroad
Solo Exhibitionsl
2026 ‘Meadow’ Ruthin Centre for Applied Arts
2022 ‘From Light to Dark From Dark to Light’ Ruthin Centre for Applied Arts
‘Thirty Five Years’ Contemporary Ceramics London
2018 ‘Containing Time’ Fen Ditton Gallery Cambridge
2017 ‘Containing Time’ Tour – National Centre for Craft & Design, Lincoln,
Ruthin Centre for Applied Arts Wales, Gracefield Arts Centre Dumfries
2016 ‘Containing Time’ Korsbarsgarden Gotland Sweden
2015 ‘Containing Time’ New works at Vessels in the Loft, Fort Point,
Boston MA USA.
2013 ‘A Journey from East to West’ Alison Richard Building, Cambridge University
2012 ‘Ancient Traditions Contemporary Practise’ Aberystwyth Art Centre
2009 Blas & Knada Stockholm
2004 Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool
2004 Byard Art, Cambridge
2003 Contemporary Ceramics, London
2000 Hart Gallery, London
1998 Contemporary Ceramics, London
1997 Kunstforum Kirchberg, Switzerland
1995 Christies Contemporary Art, Cambridge Pyramid Gallery, York
1994 Harlequin Gallery, London
1993 Contemporary Ceramics, London
1992 Bettles Gallery, Hampshire Porticus Gallery
1990 Peter Dingley Aberystwyth Ceramic Series
1987 Leeds City Craft Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 ‘Elements; Earth Fire’ Gallery 57 Arundel
2020 ‘Structured’ Gallery 57 Arundel
2020 ‘Stand By Me’ The Craft Centre and Design Gallery Leeds
2019 Paper and Ceramics Gallery 57 Arundel
2018 Containing Time to be shown at the Indian Ceramic Triennale Jaipur
2017 ‘Modern Masters’ International Trade Fair Munich
2014 Members’ Exhibition International Acadamy of Ceramics Dublin
2014 Open to Art – Officine Saffi International Competition Milan Italy
2013 ‘Objectify’ – Contemporary Ceramics, London
2012 Bluecoat Display Centre Liverpool
2012 Lerverk Gallery, Goteborg Sweden
2011 Stadsmuseum, Oldenburg, Germany
The Craft Centre and Design Gallery Leeds
Vessels Gallery, 71 Thayer Street, Boston, MA 02118 USA
The Stour Gallery Shipston on Stour
2010 Guest of Honour at Terres d’Empreintes, Ceramique Internationale
Contemporaire at the Sel in Sevres, Paris. Organised by ArtCeram.
2009 Gallery for Applied Arts, Munich
2009 Angela Mellor Gallery, Ely
2008 Kunstforum Solothurn, Switzerland
2008 ‘Collect’ V&A Museum London
2007 ‘Collect’ V&A Museum London
2007 The Stour Gallery Summer Exhibition
2007 Alpha House Gallery
2007 Aberystwyth Art Centre
2006 Keramiekcentrum Tiendschuur Tegelen, the Ceramic
Museum in Holland
2006 ‘Meniscus’ – a collaborative exhibition with Graham Murrell at
Ronald Pile Gallery, Ely
2005 ‘Naked Clay’ Rufford Craft Centre, Rufford
2005 3rd World Ceramic Biennale Korea.
2005 Carlin Gallery, Paris
2004 Loes & Reiner, Deventer, Netherlands
2002 The Carlin Gallery, Paris
2002 Peters Barn
2001 Kunstforum Kirchberg, Switzerland
2001 Rope Store Gallery, Stroud
2001 USA Touring exhibition – Baltimore Clayworks and The Clay Studio, Philadelphia
2000 New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
1999 ‘Burnt Earth’ Contemporary Ceramics, London
1999 ‘Pot Smokers’ Collection Gallery, Ledbury
1999 Galerie Helga Malten, Dortmund, Germany
1998 ‘Cool Clay’ Rufford Craft Center Global Ceramics, Babel Amsterdam, Holland
1997 Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award Exhibition, New Zealand
1996 ‘Mixed British Ceramics’ Galerie Hilde Holstein, Bremen, Germany
1996 Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award, New Zealand Kettles Yard, Cambridge
1995 Charlotte Finkenstein, Hamburg
1995 ‘Cultural Connections’, Market Cross, Bury St. Edmunds
1995 Textiles and Ceramics, Rufford Craft Center
1995 Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award, New Zealand
1995 ‘Britain in Greece’, Athens
1995 ‘Smoke Fired Pottery’ touring exhibition by Southern Arts
1994 Jewell and Roberts, Holmfirth
1994 On Line Gallery, Southampton
1994 Yorkshire Sculpture Park
1994 Bonhams, Masters of the 20th Century Contemporary Ceramics
1994 Studio Ceramics at the V&A
1993 ‘Attenuation’, a touring exhibition of Contemporary British Craft
1993 Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award Exhibition, New Zealand
1993 ‘Handbuilt Ceramics’, Rufford Craft Centre’
1992 Contemporary Ceramics from Great Britain, Galerij Desko, Kortemark, Belgium
1992 Chelsea Crafts Fair
1991 Oxford Gallery
1991 Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, exchange with Cologne Lausanne, Switzerland
1991 ‘Keramik im Pulvertum’, Oldenburg, Germany
Selected Memberships
Member of International Academy of Ceramics
Craft Potters Association – Fellow
Crafts Council Photostore of Selected Makers
Publications
1995 Smoke Fired Pottery A&C Black
2000 Traditional Pottery of India A&C Black
2005 Naked Clay A&C Black
2008 Smoke Firing Contemporary Artists & Approaches A&C Black
