John
Ward - Biography
One of Britains best known
and most widely respected living potters,
John Ward has produced a body of work
comprised of mainly coil built stoneware
vessel forms, generally favoring matte
glazes and hand applied oxides. Each piece
is hand built of flattened coils; some
are then cut and rejoined, incised with
a pattern or burnished with pebbles. They
are then twice fired in an electric kiln.
Born
1938 in Islington, London, he trained
at East Ham Technical College and Camberwell
School of Art during the 1960s.
He started his first workshop
in London in 1971, and and is currently
working at his own studio near Newport
in Wales.
Solo Exhibitions:
1982 Peter Dingley Gallery, Stratford
upon Avon
1985 Craft Potters Shop, London
1987 Galerie Gilbert, Remetsschwiel, Germany
1989 Beaux Arts, Bath
1990 Graham Gallery, New York, USA
1992
Amalcam Gallery, Barnes, London
1993 Oxford Gallery, Oxford
1996 Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool
2001 Courcoux & Courcoux, Stockbridge,
Hampshire
Public Collections include:
Museum
of Modern Art, New York
Museum Bellerive, Zurich
Pennsylvania State Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
Cardiff Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
