Jim MaloneImage Gallery

Jim Malone has been making high fired stoneware pottery since the early seventies and also makes some porcelain. He works alone producing a wide range of individual pottery forms.
One of Britain's foremost potters, he has exhibited widely in this country as well as in America, Germany and Hong Kong. He is included on the British Crafts Council index of selected craftsmen and is a Fellow of the Craftsman Potters Association of Great Britain.

Work generally available from:
Oxford Gallery
Craft Potters Shop, Marshall Street, London
Paul Rice Gallery, Ealing, London
Stour Gallery, Shipton on Stour Warwickshire
Online Gallery, Southampton
Rufford Craft Centre, Nottinghamshire
Oakwood Gallery, Edwinstowe, Notts - on line gallery
Shibusa, Poole, Dorset - on line gallery
Direct from the studio.

Other Information: Some availability for lectures, demonstrations and workshops within constraints of limited time.

Work is all thrown on a traditional Korean type wheel and fired in the oil and wood burning oriental climbing kiln, the latter taking 20 hours to reach the required temperature throughout ( 1350 degrees centigrade in the hottest part of the kiln down to about 1280 deg.C). Constant stoking is required for much of this time.
Many different wood ashes and local minerals are used to make up glazes and these combine to make pottery which is both distinctive and unique to this area.
Firings take place about 4 times a year, but can be less frequent.

1946 Born in Sheffield, England
1973-76 Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts, BA Hons., Ceramics First Class
1975 Studied with Ray Finch, Winchcombe Pottery, Cloucestershire.

Studios:
1976-82 Llandegla, North Wales
1984-2002(January) Ainstable, Cumbria
2002-.... Burnby, near York

Professional Societies:
Contemporary Applied Arts, London
Fellow of the Craftsman Potters Association of Great Britain

Lecturing:
1982-90 Cumbria College of Art, Carlisle Visiting lecturer to many colleges and universities including, Camberwell College of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University and Wrexham College of Art.

Residency:
1980 Artist in Residence, Cardiff College of Art

Solo Exhibitions
1978 Craftwork Gallery, Guildford; Bees Gallery, Stockport; Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool.
1979 Amalgam Art, London
1980 Collection Gallery, Ledbury
1981 Amalgam Art, London; O'Caseys Gallery, London
1983 Royal Exchange Craft Centre, Manchester
1988 Tithe Barn Gallery, Derbyshire
1991 Amalgam Art, London
1992 Christs Hospital Gallery, Horsham
1993 Amalgam Art, London
1994 Oxford Gallery, Oxford; Gallerie Besson, London; Bettles gallery, Hampshire
1995 Harlequin Gallery, London; Amalgam Art, London; Laburnum Ceramics Gallery, Penrith
1996 Alpha House Gallery, Dorset; Contemporary Ceramics, London; On Line Gallery, Southampton
1997 Harlequin Gallery, London; Gallerie Besson, London; Bolton Museum & Art Gallery, Retrospective
1998 Retrospective Touring Show; Birmingham City Museum; Oxford Gallery, Oxford; Bettles Gallery, Hampshire
1999 Alpha House Gallery, Dorset; Harlequin Gallery
2000 Oakwood Gallery
2001 Oxford Gallery (Potato Town)

Selected Group Exhibitions
1991 'Can't Stop me Now' Crafts Council, London; 'China Clay' Gerald Godfrey, London
1992 'Hand Made' Stafford Art gallery; 'Tea Party' Rufford Craft Centre, Nottingham
1993 'Form and Function', Contemporary Applied Arts, London; Cumbria Craft Guild, Guest Exhibitor, Windemere; Chelsea Craft Fair, London; Touring Exhibition, 'Potters in Cumbria'; Paul Rice Gallery, London with Ewan Henderson
1994'International Ceramics' Alpha House Gallery, Dorset; 'Form and Function', Contemporary Applied Arts, London
1995 'Teapots Exhibition', Laburnum Ceramics, Penrith; Gallerie Besson, London; 'Decorative Arts Today' Bonham's, London; Castlegate Gallery, Cockermouth
1996 'Ash Glazes' Rufford Craft Centre, Nottingham; 'Decorative Arts Today' Bonham's, London

Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Paisley Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow
Ulster Museum, Ireland
York Museum and Art Gallery
Bolton Museum and Art Gallery
Cleveland Craft Centre, Middlesbrough
Manchester Metropolitan University
Liverpool Museum and Art Gallery
Crafts Council Collection, London

1976 Crafts Council, New Craftsman Grant
1993 Northern Arts bursary

1980 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' by Christopher Reid. Crafts Magazine Issue 45
1983 'A Point of View' by Jim Malone. Pottery Quarterly Issue 14/56
1993 'Jim Malone in Conversation' Ceramic Review, March Issue.

1989 'British studio Ceramics in the 20th Century' by Paul Rice and Christopher Gowing
1990 'British Studio Pottery in the V&A Collection by Oliver Watson
1993 'Potters in Cumbria' by Viv Rumbold
1991 'Ash Glazes' Phil Rogers
1995 'Thowing Pots' Phil Rogers

Video:
'Jim Malone Artist Potter' by Alex Mc Erlain, Manchester Metropolitan University

Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Paisley Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow
Ulster Museum, Ireland
York Museum and Art Gallery
Bolton Museum and Art Gallery
Cleveland Craft Centre, Middlesbrough
Manchester Metropolitan University
Liverpool Museum and Art Gallery
Crafts Council Collection, London