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View Image Gallery Alex Shimwell(Full member)

Tel: 07985 553 711   Email:   Web: www.alexshimwellceramics.co.uk  

Artists Statement

In my work I explore the relationships between the processes that make the piece and the effects they create, as well as the relationship between the pot and the user.

I make solely wheel thrown, high fired, porcelain and stoneware objects, with a functional purpose

My aesthetic ideas are grounded in the traditions of British studio pottery which takes its inspiration of aesthetic idiom from Japanese culture.

In my pieces I attempt to attain a balance between my aesthetic purpose: to display and manipulate the properties of each stage of the creative process into a balanced confident piece. And my personal belief that the beauty of a pot is as much in its visual presence as it is in how it functions.

To me the communication between person and pot though initially always visual; the tactile responses stimulated by its use are where a truer understanding and appreciation of the form, the pot and the potter’s personality lie.

Current work

Gas fired reduction stoneware and porcelain domestic use and display pieces

Availability of current work:
- Fish street gallery ( gaolyard studios) St Ives
- Oxford ceramics
- Oakwood ceramics
- Royal Birmingham Society of Art
- Exhibiting Burslem art
- Focus gallery Nottingham
- The Gallery Bishops Castle
- Tighnabruaich Gallery Nr Glasgow
- Studio One Gallery Edinburgh
- Gallery Top Rowsley
- The Weekend Gallery Hastings
- Exhibiting Bessemer gallery
- David Mellor designs Sloan square
- Mickerloo gallery
- Wensley craft gallery
- created gallery chesterfield
- exhibiting artworks mk Milton Keynes 2010

Online Galleries
- Online gallery exhibiting bare wall 2009
- Online work on www.studiopottery.co.uk
- Online work on http://www.craftform.com
- www.alexshimwellceramics.co.uk
- www.oakwoodceramics.co.uk
- www.great-british-designs.co.uk

Technical Information

Gas kiln propane fired to 1280 in reduction, tenmoku's, celadons, copper reds, kakis

History,Education and Experience

- Staffordshire university graduated 2007
- Throwing with Numagouchi San Japanese Jomon-ware potter
- Demonstration thrower Gladstone Pottery Museum

Public Art Commissions & Appearances
- Chatterley Whitfield commission installation 2008
- Demonstrator for Burslem arts 2008
- Demonstrator for Burslem arts 2009
- Burslem Christmas festival 2009
- Exhibition coordinator and exhibitor at ceramic British ceramics biennial 2009
- B arts commission 250 vases for clay British ceramics biennial 2009
- Featured in Derbyshire life Christmas gift Guide 2008
- Demonstrator for the British ceramics confederation 2009
- Demonstrator for the British ceramics confederation 2010

Exhibitions and Events

Shows:
- Wirksworth festival 2003
- Wirksworth festival 2004
- Exhibited Wirksworth festival 2009
- Trentham gardens Christmas show 2009
- Burslem arts market 2009
- Great peak district fair 2009
- BCTF 2010

Past Galleries and stockists
- Exhibited Haddon Hall
- Exhibited Twenty Twenty gallery
- Exhibited artworks mk Milton Keynes 2009
- Exhibited St John’s Street Sallery
- Exhibited Hanley Potteries Museum
- Exhibited Ridgeway Gallery
- Exhibiting Gladstone Pottery Museum

Private Commissions

- Private commission 18 inch lamp base
- Private commission 12 X casserole pots
- 50 X 4 inch Bisque ware bowls for artist Nicola Blaize
- 6 X 18 inch Bisque ware bowls for artist Nicola Blaize
- 10 X 12 inch Bisque ware Bowls for artist Nicola Blaize
- 2 X 22 inch Bisque Ware Bowls for Living Glaze
- 100 X Japanese commission Sochou pots

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Ceramics by Alex Shimwell at Studiopottery.co.uk -

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Ceramics by Alex Shimwell at Studiopottery.co.uk - 2013. vase form, copper red Ceramics by Alex Shimwell at Studiopottery.co.uk - 2013. Celadon chattered platter
Ceramics by Alex Shimwell at Studiopottery.co.uk - 2013. Celadon chattered box Ceramics by Alex Shimwell at Studiopottery.co.uk - 2013. larger shino vase
Ceramics by Alex Shimwell at Studiopottery.co.uk - 2013. Swirly lidded form, copper red Ceramics by Alex Shimwell at Studiopottery.co.uk - 2013. Swirly lidded form, celadon

Contact Details

Studio Address: 104 Chesterfield Road, Matlock, Derbyshire, England, DE4 3FS.
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Telephone: 07985 553 711
Email:
Web-site: www.alexshimwellceramics.co.uk

Availability: Usually every day of the week best to phone first and on arrival and I will come and find you.

Joined on: 2009-11-18
Last Updated: 2013-03-05

Events featuring this potter

Rufford Craft Centre : Earth and Fire 2013 at Rufford
June 21, 2013 to June 23, 2013

Art in Clay - Hatfield House : Art in Clay 2013
July 05, 2013 to July 07, 2013

Work styles:

Stoneware
Porcelain
Thrown
Celadon
Vases & Bowls
Teapots
Teabowls
Kitchen & Tableware
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