Sam Bakewell Ceramics

In the current fine arts landscape in which a newly rekindled interest in ceramics has led to dabbling legions of potters come lately professing their veneration for bernard leach as they turn out crude pinch pots by the dozen the young british ceramics artist sam bakewell is the exception to the rule.

Sam bakewell ceramics. I caught up with sam to hear about his plans for the residency. Sam bakewell was born in 1983 in rural somerset and lives and works in london. Sam bakewell permanent collection journal april 24 ksenya blokhina playful aggressions opens at greengrassi and sam bakewell s time for waste at corvi mora february 24. Sam won the british ceramic biennial in 2015.

Taking evening classes with his father from the age of 8 he followed whatever path he could to continue to use clay. The sheer breadth of objects held in the collections. Amy hughes bethan lloyd worthington ellie doney hanne enemark hanne mannheimer ian mcintyre. He graduated from the royal college of art in april 2011 and won the british ceramic biennale in 2015.

Installed in the china hall at the former spode factory in stoke on trent bakewell s clay structure contains a series of objects and hand carved pieces that he has made over. Born in somerset sam bakewell studied at uwic cardiff before completing an ma at the royal college of art in 2011. The winner of the 2015 british ceramics biennial award is sam bakewell for his installation of a pseudo shamanic hut imagination dead imagine he receives 5000 and a commission for the 2017 british ceramics biennial. Sam bakewell is our current ceramics resident who started his residency in october 2018.

1983 is a london based artist specialising in clay and working in a variety of approaches. What interests you about the v a. Exploring our collection of ceramic wares by the martin brothers bakewell hopes to concentrate on the dark nature of the work and its links to the gothic romanticism of the 1900 s. A qest scholarship enabled him to undertake an ma in ceramics glass at the royal college of art which he completed in 2011.

Now based in london he is a member of studio manifold working predominantly in clay and in a variety of approaches. Imogen greenhalgh imaginations at work ceramic review may june in his permanent collection. It afforded him the time to focus his conceptual practice whilst continuing to expand his technical capabilities. Growing up in a small village in somerset bakewell spent many hours digging up clay in his garden.

Digging clay from the garden at an early age and taking classes alongside his father form the age of eight his work since has plumbed the expansive formal possibilities of the medium. A talented practitioner with the technical chops to traffic in realistic figuration but.