Simon Kidd - Murlach

SIMON KIDD

Stratum soda wood-fired, slip-cast stoneware & ground granite 19.3 x 25 x 22 cm (SK-0039)

SIMON KIDD Murlach an exhibition of new work 27 April - 20 May 2021

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Stratum slip-cast porcelain 15 x 15 x 18 cm (SK-0036)

Stratum wood-fired, slip-cast stoneware, ground granite & Shino glaze 18.7 x 18.9 x 19 cm (SK-0042)

Murlach Bay, located in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, is a place that Simon Kidd has visited regularly since early childhood. This bay became a catalyst for contemplation and the source of inspiration for this exhibition of new work.

The beauty of the Irish landscape has been a lodestone for Kidd’s ceramics from the beginning. He recently wrote that his work “is a response to Northern Ireland as a country in terms of both the civilisation as well as the physical land it encompasses. It is a reflection and a response of the physical, historic, and symbolic.”

Working in porcelain and stoneware, Kidd alternates between hand-thrown bowls and vessels, and slip-cast, sculpted forms. Some of the slip-cast pieces are unique and others are limited to editions of three. Many of the works in this exhibition were then woodfired - a new departure for Kidd.

For the vessels, Kidd collected basalt from Murlach Bay, which he then ground into a glaze.

The Irish landscape has an ambiguous push and pull influence on Kidd’s art. Reflecting on how this has affected him, he wrote: “These places are not only the places themselves but they are integral to who we are, our identity is made up so much of where we’re from, the places we’ve been, the places we go back to, the sights we’ve seen, the people we love, the people we’ve hurt, and the people we forgive.”

Murlach County Antrim

Stratum wood-fired, slip-cast stoneware & ground granite 15.8 x 17 x 19.5 cm (SK-0044)

Stratum wood-fired, slip-cast porcelain 17.5 x 17 x 10.5 cm (SK-0045)

Stratum slip-cast porcelain (ed. 1/3) 26.5 x 20 x 11.5 cm (SK-0031)

Stratum slip-cast porcelain 15.4 x 12.5 x 17.5 cm (SK-0035)

Stratum slip-cast, coloured porcelain (ed. 1/3) 27.8 x 20 x 11 cm (SK-0050)

Stratum slip-cast, coloured porcelain 18 x 19 x 18 cm (SK-0051)

Stratum slip-cast porcelain (ed. 1/3) 12.3 x 16.5 x 13 cm (SK-0037)

Stratum slip-cast porcelain 18.3 x 18 x 18 cm (SK-0033)

Basalt from Murlach Bay

Previous page: Vessels, thrown & altered porcelain & ground basalt, 13.5 to 26.8 cm high (Left to right: SK-0057, SK-0067, SK-0071, SK-0062)

Vessel, thrown & altered porcelain & ground basalt 25.4 x 12 x 9 cm (SK-0069)

Extrusive slip-cast porcelain 24 x 62 x 29 cm (SK-0080)

Stratum wood-fired, slip-cast stoneware & ground granite 17.7 x 16 x 21 cm (SK-0043)

Stratum wood-fired, slip-cast stoneware & ground granite 18.5 x 19 x 20 cm (SK-0041)

Stratum wood-fired, slip-cast porcelain & ground granite 22 x 20.5 x 17.5 cm (SK-0048)

Stratum soda wood-fired, slip-cast porcelain 17.5 x 21.5 x 17.5 cm (SK-0047)

Stratum wood-fired, slip-cast stoneware & ground granite 20.3 x 24 x 24 cm (SK-0040)

Stratum slip-cast, coloured porcelain 16 cm high & 10.5 cm high (SK-0055 & SK-0054)

Simon Kidd b. 1993 Education 2015 - 2018

Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London BA (Hons) Ceramic Design, 1st Class Honours

Solo Exhibitions 2021 2020

Simon Kidd: Murlach, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK Simon Kidd, Solo Online Exhibition, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK

Group Exhibitions 2020

2019

2018

Collect, L​ ondon, UK (Represented by Alveston Fine Arts) Land Marks, Ceramics Ireland Triennial, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Land(ed), Group Exhibition​, ​Lavit Gallery​, ​Wandesford Quay, Cork, Ireland Forms in Nature, Group Exhibition​, ​Hexagon Gallery​, London, UK From this Land, Group Exhibition​, Thrown Contemporary​, London, UK Creative Unions, Central Saint Martins Graduate Show, London, UK Gradual, Group Exhibition​, Thrown Contemporary​, London, UK

Awards & Shortlists 2019

Awarded the Rosalind Stracey Ceramics Residency, sponsored by the S.H.A. Charitable Trust and RHODE Kilns (this granted a fully funded studio for one year)

2018

Shortlisted for the MullenLowe NOVA Award Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London

All works were made in 2020, and are fully illustrated at www.ehc.art.

Studio photography by Stuart Burford. Installation photography by Andy Stagg.

Printed by WKG Print.

Copyright Erskine, Hall & Coe Ltd, 2021.