Exhibition
The Leach Pottery: Hand Heart Mind
11 Oct 2019 – 24 Nov 2019
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 17:00
Address
- Thrown at Highgate Contemporary Art
- 26 Highgate High Street
- London
England - N65JG
- United Kingdom
Celebrating the current team behind one of the most influential potteries in the world, the Leach Pottery.
About
Hand Heart Mind’, the Leach studio team's second exhibition at specialist ceramics gallery Thrown, will celebrate the Leach’s philosophies even further with a focus on their collaborative work alongside individual collections from the studio team. The ceramic work on display will be added to by a special collection of drawings from the Leach studio by artist Adrian Taylor.
The exhibition will also see the return of their collaborative supper clubs, celebrating the functional every day with the launch of a collaborative set of tableware made especially for these events. Tickets can now be booked online: www.throwncontemporary.co.uk/supperclub.
ABOUT THE LEACH POTTERY
Founded in 1920 by Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada, the Leach Pottery, St Ives, is among the most respected and influential potteries in the world. Over the last hundred years, it has forged the shape of Studio Pottery in the UK and beyond. Scores of potters, students and apprentices, from across the world have come to the Leach Pottery to train, creating a uniquely international environment in the heart of Cornwall and maintaining the Pottery's creative principle of East/West exchange. Today, the Leach Pottery Studio, Museum and Gallery continue developing Bernard Leach's historic legacy.
The current studio team is led by Lead Potter Roelof Uys:
‘It was a great honour to be offered the role of Lead Potter here at the Leach. I hope to continue working in a tradition that has influenced and inspired so many artists from all over the world. I am always mindful that I stand on the shoulders of giants.’
Roelof studied art at East London Technical College in South Africa. He founded his first ceramics studio in Limpopo province in 1992, where he collaborated with potter Solomon Matatoko. He went on to work in Kynsna as a resident potter at Bitou Crafts, founded by Clementina van der Walt. Roelof then started his own production pottery in Cape Town, where he served on the committee of the Western Cape Potters Association. After moving to the UK in 1998, he worked as a studio potter in the Gaolyard Studios, St Ives, before taking his role as Lead Potter at the Leach Pottery in 2013.
The exhibition 'Hand Heart Mind' aims to present the Leach Pottery of today and the development of the studio in carrying on its legacy.