Jack doherty 2013

Jack Doherty Pure Simplicity 樸 真 2013

Pure Simplicity My work explores vessels and the ancient layers of cultural resonance embedded within archetypal forms. Made from porcelain, the forms are thrown then carved and shaped reflecting the fluidity of the material and physicality of making.

The elemental colour and surface texture are created by the fusion of fire and soda in the intense heat of the kiln, leaving behind a subtle palette of smoky grey, lemon, russet and turquoise. On many levels, the pots I make are figurative pieces; each has its own character, particular emotional range and response.

Born in Co Derry, I trained in Ceramics at the Ulster College of Art and Design. My pots have been exhibited extensively both in the UK and internationally. I have been privileged to be Chair of the CPA for 10 years, a founder and current Chair of Ceramic Art London and from 2008 – 2013, the first Lead Potter and Creative Director of the Leach Pottery.

Jack Doherty 2013

About Jack Born Coleraine Co Derry On Graduating from the Ulster College of Art and Design I joined Kilkenny Design Workshops. I was employed as a studio potter within a ceramics department whose main function was to design high quality products for the ceramics industry. While developing and exhibiting my personal work, I was involved with the production of prototypes and the development of glazes for industrial use. My work was awarded gold medals at the International exhibitions in Faenza 1974 and Vallauris 1976

1977 Started first workshop at Scarva Co

1992 Elected council member of the Craft

Potters Association.

1993 Initiated and co- organized “Salt and

Soda” the first in a series of 3 conferences which explored areas of concern for potters using sodium vapour glazing.

1994 Involved with the organisation of

“Earth and Fire” the first major UK ceramics fair at Rufford Nottinghamshire.

1995-2000 Elected Chair of the Craft Potters Association.

Armagh, producing stoneware tableware and individual porcelain pieces which were exhibited and sold in the UK, Germany and the U.S.A.

1995 – 2008 Chairman of the Board of

1979 member of the working party

1995 - 2008 Chairman of the Board.

established by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland to advise on the provision of funding for the crafts in Ulster.

Directors, Contemporary Ceramics, the CPA London gallery.

Ceramic Review, the international magazine for ceramics.

1995 Selector for many exhibitions and

1983 Moved to Herefordshire and established pottery workshop near Rosson-Wye.

fairs, including “Earth and Fire”, “Setting Out”, the “Oxford Ceramics Fair”, “Cool Clay”

1987-2000 Part time lecturer in ceramics

1996 – 2001 Advisor to West

at the Royal Forest of Dean College.

Midland Arts

1998 Advisor to the Association for

2006 selector for Crafts Council of

Ceramic Training and Development on evolving the Craft pottery NVQ standards.

Ireland “Third Level Awards”.

1996 led a successful CPA application for

programme.

an Arts Council lottery grant to refurbish Contemporary Ceramics.

1997-2003 External examiner BA ceramics University of Gloucestershire Cheltenham.

2000 Organised “The Wheel”, the CPA

summer conference which highlighted innovative contemporary wheel made ceramics.

200R Re-elected Chair, Craft

Potters Association.

2001-2003 Director of St Ives

International organising “Ceramica” an international festival of ceramics in Cornwall.

2003 Award judge for the Altech Triennial

ceramics exhibition Capetown South Africa.

2004 Award Judge at the Festival of

European Ceramics St Quentin la Poterie France.

2006 Mentor for Creative Industries 2007 Curator of “The pot the vessel and

the object” CPA 50th anniversary touring exhibition.

2007 Member of crafts advisory panel

to HRH The Prince of Wales 2008 – 2013 Lead Potter and Creative Director at the Leach Pottery St Ives Cornwall

2004 - present Chair of the organising

committee for “Ceramic Art London” the major new fair for contemporary ceramic art at the Royal College of Art.

January 2013 New studio in

Mousehole Cornwall and resident potter at the Newlyn School of Art.

October 2013 Guest Editor of Ceramic Review magazine

Selected Exhibitions 1974 1976 1977 1980 1980 1981 1982 1982 1983 1986 1987 1988 1988 1988 1989 1989 1990 1992 1993 1993 1993 1994 1994 1994 1995 1995 1995 1996 1997 1997 1998 1998 1998

International Ceramics Exhibition Faenza Italy International Ceramics Biennial Vallauris France ”Workmanship” Kilkenny Design shop Dublin “Handmade” Arts Council of N. Ireland touring exhibition “ Ceramics and Wood” Museum of Art and Craft Hamburg “Handmade” for Exhibition Form/Design Centre Malmo Sweden “Inlaid Ceramics” British Craft Centre London “British Contemporary Crafts” Houston Texas “New Irish Ceramics” Ulster Museum Belfast New Members Show Contemporary Ceramics London “Summer Pots” Peter Dingley Gallery Stratford-upon-Avon “CPA at the Bluecoat” Bluecoat gallery Liverpool “Teller und Schale” Claudia Krempl gallery Baldham Germany “North of Watford Gap” CPA touring exhibition Showcase Contemporary Ceramics London “A handful of Clay” Bonhams London “Trio” Peter Dingley gallery Stratford-upon-Avon “New Ceramics” Small Mansion Art Centre London “Saltzbrand” Koblenz Germany “Art and Design Matters” Ulster Museum Belfast solo exhibition Bettles gallery Ringwood Hampshire “Eye on the Landscape” Church House Designs Congresbury “Playing with Fire” Victoria and Albert Museum London “Britain in Greece” ceramics centre Athens “Three Dimensions” Montpelier gallery Cheltenham “Made in the Middle” West Midlands Arts Touring Exhibition Royal Exchange Craft Centre Manchester Alpha House Gallery Sherborne Dorset “Songs in Salt” Princeshof Museum Leewarden Holland “Domestic Warehouse” Rufford Craft Centre “Coolclay” Rufford Craft Centre Solo exhibition Contemporary Ceramics London “Pots for Ikebana” Takashimaya Osaka Japan

1999 1999 1999 1999 1999 2000 2000 2000 2000 2001 2001 2002 2003 2003 2003 2003 2004 2004 2004 2004 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2007 2007 2007

Contemporary Ceramics Plymouth Arts Centre 12 Ceramistes Britaniques Galerie Hamelin Hornfleur France “Objects of the Fire” Aylesbury Museum “Salt and Soda” City Museum Leicester Bircham gallery Norfolk Alpha House Gallery Sherborne Dorset Eton Applied Arts Windsor “Below the Salt” Portsmouth Museum “Inspired Choices” Morley Gallery London “Expanding our Views” Loes and Reinier gallery Deventer Holland Solo exhibition Contemporary Ceramics London Alpha House Gallery Sherborne Dorset New Ashgate Gallery Farnham “Made in the Middle” Craftspace Touring exhibition “Dish Wish” Brewery Arts Cirencester RBSA gallery Birmingham 500 bowls Galerie Traces Hasteire Belgium Yew Tree gallery Cornwall “Totally Teabowls” Oakwood gallery Nottinghamshire Stour gallery Warwickshire Galerie Michel Saintes France “Salt and Soda” Rufford Craft Centre Solo Exhibition Bettles gallery Ringwood Hampshire International Chawan exhibition Belgium “Revelations” solo exhibition RBSA gallery Birmingham Harlequin gallery London “Table Manners” Crafts Council gallery London Alpha house gallery Sherborne Dorset St Ives Ceramics “What a Dish” Contemporary Ceramics London “Containment” Ronald Pile gallery Ely Cambridgeshire “Hot Pots” Galerie Paridis Bornholm Denmark New Ashgate Gallery Farnham Surrey “CPA @Fifty” Bevere Gallery Worcester “The Pot the Vessel and the Object” Aberystywyth Arts Centre Solo exhibition Contemporary Ceramics London

2008 2008 2008 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013

Stour Gallery Warwickshire Aberystwyth Arts Centre “Formed in Fire” Leach Pottery “Pots for Light” Galerie Besson London Solo exhibition National Craft Gallery Kilkenny Ireland Bircham Gallery Norfolk Jack Doherty & the Leach Tableware Gallery St Ives Tokyo “White” Leach Pottery Galerie Bollhorst Freiburg Germany Stour Gallery Warwickshire Solo exhibition OBG gallery Belfast European Ceramics Context Bornholm Denmark Tea Ceremony vessels Mitsukoshi Toyko Japan Solo exhibition National University of Education, Taiwan “A Place in the World” Newlyn Art Gallery Cornwall “Through 50” Contemporary Ceramics Centre London “Portfolio” National Craft Gallery Ireland “ Collect” Saatchi Gallery London “Transform” Farmleigh Gallery Dublin “Talking in Clay” Courtyard Arts Centre Hereford “Art Fair Toyko “Chawan” Gallery St Ives Toyko “The Ethics of Objects” Kinsale Arts Festival. Ireland “Vessels” Cill Rialaig, County Kerry, Ireland “Summertime Blues” Leach Pottery, St Ives, Cornwall.

“A Place In The World” Garden House, Mousehole, Cornwall.

“Jack Doherty and the Leach Pottery” New Craftsman Gallery, St Ives “St Ives Potters” Makers Guild, Cardiff, Wales.

“Jack Doherty and Tomoo Hamada” Gallery St Ives, Tokyo “Portfolio” Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland “Winter Bleu” Bettles Gallery, Hampshire.

“Legacy” High Cross House, Dartington, Devon “Future Beauty?” National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland Collect Saatchi Galleries London “Moon Jar; contemporary translations” Korean Cultural Centre, London “Vernacular” Tent London and National Craft Gallery Ireland

Fairs and selling events Chelsea Crafts Fair, Creative Eye, Ceramics in the City, Earth and Fire, Art in Clay, Oxford Studio Ceramics, Diessen Germany, Bandol France, Clay Art, New York Gift Fair, Art in Action, Ceramic Art London, Collect; the fair for extraordinary contemporary objects.

Selected Demonstrations /Workshops/Lectures 1986 1988 1988 1990 1992 1993 1993 1995 1996 1996 1996 1996 1997 1997 1999 1999 2000 2000 2001 2003 2004 2004 2004 2005

Southern Ceramics Group Southampton CPSI Co Down “Potter in the Shop” Contemporary Ceramics London “Top Class” master class University of Derby Wey Ceramics “Salt and Soda” Royal Forest of Dean College “Integrated Clay” West Herts College “Clay Live” Tiverton Devon Workshop at the Clay Connection Washington DC USA Workshop at the 92nd St Y New York Residency at the Potteries Museum Stoke on Trent International Potters Festival Malta “Visions and Tradition” saltglaze symposium Princeshof Museum Holland Workshop and lecture tour USA Scottish potters workshop Porcelain workshop Northern Potters Manchester Masterclass Chagford Devon International Ceramics Symposium Tel Hai Israel CPSI workshop Thomastown Co Kilkenny Workshop and lecture tour South Africa East Anglia potters workshop Demonstration at Oxford Studio Ceramics Demonstration at the European Ceramics Festival St Quentin la Poterie Demonstration at Earth and Fire Rufford Craft Centre

2005 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2007 2007 2008 2009 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2011 2012 2012 2012 2013

Workshops for “Revelations” RBSA gallery Birmingham Master Class for Feili Clai Aberystwyth Arts Centre Porcelain workshop West Dean College Sussex Demonstration for “Table Manners” Bilston Craft Centre Wey Ceramics Surrey University of Derby University of Wales Cardiff “Spring Fever” Queensland Australia Australian National University Canberra Salt and Soda Whichford Pottery Warwickshire International Ceramics Festival Aberystwyth Fabrik Freiburg Germany West Country Potters Plymouth Northern Potters Preston Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan National Tainan University of Arts, Taiwan Taipei American School, Taiwan Talking in Clay Courtyard Arts Centre Hereford Ceramica – South Wales Potters, Abergavenny, Wales Henry Rothschild Memorial Lecture, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead /13 Exploring Porcelain – West Dean College, Sussex Newlyn School of Art

Awards 1972 Alice Berger Hammerslag Trust Award

1974 Gold Medal International Ceramics exhibition Faenza Italy 1976 Gold Medal International Ceramics Biennial Vallauris France 1986 Crafts Council marketing /publicity grant

1998 1st Prize West Midlands Arts Touring Exhibition 1993 West Midlands Arts Crafts initiative grant

Collections Arts Council of N Ireland

Ulster Museum

Museum of Ceramics Faenza

Liverpool Museum

Princeshof Museum Holland

Potteries Museum Stoke on Trent

Castle Museum Nottingham

Cheltenham Museum

National Museum Ireland

Publications “Porcelain�

by Jack Doherty ISBN 0-7136-5085-0 Published by A&C Black 2002

Articles and references in other publications 1982 1983 1983 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2002 2003 2003 2003 2004 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2009 2010 2010 2010 2010 2011 2012 2013

“The Crafts in Ulster” Peter Dormer Crafts Magazine “Making a Tradition” Sean McCrum Irish times “Jack Doherty`s Porcelain” Ceramic Review “Potters Dictionary of Techniques and Materials” Hamer A&C Black “Colour in Clay” Jane Waller Crowood Press “Dictionary of Practical Pottery” Robert Fournier “Potters” Craft Potters Association “Soda Glazing” Ruthanne Tudball A&CBlack “Porcelain” Caroline Whyman Batsford “Colouring Clay” Clay Times Washington DC “A Song of Today” Josie Walter Ceramic Review “Reputations” Anatol Orient Ceramic Review “Ten Thousand Years of Pottery” Emmanuel Cooper British Museum “Salt-Glaze Ceramics” Rosemary Cochrane Crowood Press “Salt Glazed Ceramics” Phil Rogers A&C Black Ceramics Ireland “Complete Potters Companion” Tony Birks Conran Octopus National Ceramics South Africa “The Ceramic Surface” Osterman A&C Black “Porcelain and Bone China” Sasha Wardell Crowood Press “Contemporary Porcelain” Peter Lane A&C Black “The Teapot Book” Steve Woodhead A&C Black “The Ceramics Book” Ceramic Review publications “Revelations” by David Whiting Ceramics Art and Perception “Brightness and Rightness” by Helen Bevis Ceramics Monthly “Jack Doherty” by Eleanor Flegg Perspectives Ceramics Ireland by Tina Byrne “Accidently on Purpose” Taipei Times, Taiwan “Jack Doherty” China Post, Taiwan “Jack Doherty Pure Simplicity” Ceramics Art Magazine, Taiwan “Jack Doherty” Interiors Magazine, Taiwan “The Craft and Art of Clay” Susan Peterson “Talking Quietly Hearing Silence” Eleanor Flegg, Craft Arts International “ Troubled Light “ Eleanor Flegg Ceramic Review

Exhibition Catalogues 1997 1998 1998 2000 2001 2002 2003 2003 2005 2005 2008 2009 2009 2011 2011 2012 2012 2013

“Songs in Salt” Princeshof Museum Holland “Art and Design Matters” University of Ulster ” Pots for Ikebana” Takashima Japan “Below the Salt” University of Derby “Expanding our Views” Loes and Reinier Deventer Holland “Saltzbrand Keremiek” Handwerkskammer Koblenz Germany “Made in the Middle” Craftspace Touring Altech Ceramics Triennial South Africa International Chawan Ceramic Study Centre Boom Belgium “Revelations” David Whiting RBSA Birmingham Bonhams London “Pots for Light” Galerie Besson “Jack Doherty” National Craft Gallery Kilkenny “Portfolio” Crafts Council of Ireland National Craft Gallery “Transform” Ceramics Ireland Dublin “Portfolio Critical Selection” Crafts Council of Ireland “A Place In The World” Garden House, Mousehole, Cornwall.

“Future Beauty?” Crafts Council of Ireland

Jack Doherty Garden House, The Parade, Mousehole, Cornwall, TR19 6PP M 07766334917 T 01736 731303 E jack.doherty@virgin.net Web www.dohertyporcelain.com