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Slee, Richard (2009) Our Objects. [Show/Exhibition]

Type of Research: Show/Exhibition
Creators: Slee, Richard
Description:

Group show

Other Contributors:
RoleName
CuratorWest, Katy
Additional Information (Publicly available):

Artist Profile

Richard Slee's career as a studio ceramicist now spans over thirty years. Born in 1946 in Cumbria, he attended Carlisle College of Art and graduated in Ceramics from the (then) Central School of Art and Design in 1970. Early career consisted of part-time teaching and practice as a Studio Ceramicist; he was awarded an MA in Design from the Royal College of Art in 1988.

Slee started teaching at Camberwell College of Art in 1990, and was awarded professorship in 1992. Throughout his career he has built an international presence in the USA, Canada, Korea, Japan, Australia and Europe, with his work being represented in numerous collections world-wide.

He completed a major commission for Sculpture at Goodwood in 2000, and in the following year was awarded The Jerwood Applied Arts Prize for his contribution to contemporary Ceramics. In 2002, he curated the exhibition 'Sleepers' at The Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, as part of the Ceramica International Festival. In 2006, he received an Arts Council Individual Artist Award to further his practice.

Richard Slee is represented in the United Kingdom by Barrett Marsden Gallery, London.

Artist’s Statement

"Specializing in ceramics as the medium, my interests and practice has evolved from Studio Pottery to a contemporary craft debate with reference to the current positioning of material specializations in visual creativity. Recent developments in my output have seen the use of both the found and non-ceramic materials in works produced questioning past loyalties towards a single material.

A formal exploration of the creative use of fired enamels onto metal has been recently undertaken, to expand my personal craft knowledge. The resulting works challenge both the place and purpose of individually produced and crafted works."

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Your affiliations with UAL: Colleges > Camberwell College of Arts
Date: 2009
Related Websites: http://www.richardslee.com, http://www.bmgallery.co.uk/slee/slee.htm, http://www.sculpture.org.uk/biography/RichardSlee, http://www.photostore.org.uk/seCVPG.aspx?MID=680&TYPE=MAKER&CAT=MAKER
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Locations / Venues:
LocationFrom DateTo Date
Mackintosh Gallery Glasgow School of Art6 March 200910 April 2009
Hillsborough Courthouse, County Down30 July 200930 August 2009
The Wedgwood Institute, Stoke-on-Trent, British Ceramics Biennial3 October 200913 December 2009
Material/Media: ceramic
Date Deposited: 04 May 2010 10:23
Last Modified: 29 Nov 2017 11:36
Item ID: 2027
URI: https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/2027

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