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1951 |
Born in Newport S. Wales.
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1973 |
Teacher of Art and Pottery in Secondary
Schools in Cambridgeshire. |
1977 |
Moved to RHAYADER and opened our first
workshop. |
1984 |
Moved to our present site at Cefn Faes Farm ?
mile from the town of RHAYADER in Powys wales. |
1984 |
Built a large downdraught kiln fired with oil
for stoneware reduction. |
1985 |
Built a 40 cu.ft. kiln to fire salt glaze.
Elected a fellow of the Craft Potters Association. |
1986 |
Elected
to the council of the C.P.A |
1991 |
Elected a full member of Contemporary Applied
Arts.
Chair of the Craft Potters Association. |
1992 |
?ASH GLAZES? is
published by A&C Black Ltd.
Visited Ethiopia to carry out a feasibility study for Project
Ploughshare. |
1993. |
Filmed by ?Invision Films? for video released
in 1984. |
1994 |
Appointed to the Craft Board, Arts Council of
Wales. Re-elected as Chair of the C.P.A. for a fourth term. |
1995. |
Visited Ethiopia once more to oversee
progress on Women?s Pottery Project in Gondar. Second workshop
tour of the U.S.A. 'THROWING POTS? published by A&C Black
Ltd. |
1996. |
Gives a week long workshop to Township people
in Cape Town, S. Africa. Demonstrated at the Maltese Potters
Annual Festival in Valletta. |
1997 |
Judge for ceramics at the Royal Dublin
Society. Spends three months at Chungnam University, Yusong, S.
Korea |
1998 |
Builds new 55 cu.ft. kiln for Salt Glaze.
Awarded a Wingate Scholarship to build two-chambered wood firing
kiln. Returned to Korea to commission salt kiln and Invited to
give workshops in Canada and the U.S.A. Guest Demonstrator at
the Israeli Potters Festival, Tel Hai, Israel. Prize Winner,
National Eisteddfod Crafts Competition. |
1999 |
Selected for the Westerwald Prize Exhibition,
Hohr Grentzhausen, Appointed a trustee of the Craft Potters
Charitable Trust. Appointed a Director of the International
Potters Festival. Guest Demonstrator, International Potters
Festival, Aberystwyth. Workshops and lectures in the U.S.A.
Elected a member of the International Academy of Ceramics. |
2000 |
Guest on H.T.V. ?Art Talks? chat show.
Further workshops in the U.S.A. Featured on H.T.V.?s ?High
Performance? Arts programme.
Purchase Award - Orton Cone Box Show, Kansas City. USA. |
2001 |
Has work selected for the World Ceramic
Bienalle, Seoul, S. Korea.
Completes new book 'SALT GLAZING' for publication in
2002. |
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Putting the finishing
touches to the wicket |
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My work is divided approximately
equally between two kilns. About half is Salt Glazed in a 60 cu.ft.
kiln that is fired with propane gas and the other half in my old and
trusted oil fired kiln of 75 cu.ft.
Salt Glazing is an exciting, but often less than predictable, method
of firing pottery. As the kiln approaches the height of the firing
the temperature has risen to a white hot 1260?C. At this point I
throw small packets of common salt into the kiln?s fireboxes where
it reacts with the intense heat and vapourises. The sodium from the
salt reacts with the silica and alumina from the clay to form a
glass or glaze. This process continues until I have used 15 lbs. of
salt and the temperature has risen to the searing white heat of
1300?C.
The manufacture of Salt glazed pottery first began in 14th Century
Germany and spread to England by the late 15th Century. By the end
of the eighteenth and throughout the nineteenth Century Salt Glazing
became widely used in industry to produce millions of cheap
utilitarian wares such as ink or Ginger Beer bottles. Salt Glazed
pots are typically rich in texture and colour, the texture often
compared to ?orange peel? and the colours ranging from deep and
intense orange to pink and yellow sometimes with a lustre
reminiscent of Mother of Pearl. |
After taking down the wicket |
My other kiln is for Reduction fired
stoneware. I try to use as many local materials as possible for my
slips and glazes particularly wood ash from the fires in the house
and stone dust from a number of local quarries. A coarse, red clay
that I dig from the woods on the other side of town makes a good
slip that influences the colour of any glaze that I put over it. I
believe what Hamada once said, to be true; he said that it is better
to use a limited range of materials and glazes and come to know them
well than have too great a choice and never fully explore the
possibility of any of them.
My work is not highly decorated; my main concern is the complex
relationships that exist within the form of a pot and the subtle
differences that make two very similar pots very different. However,
I find it difficult to let a pot pass through totally undecorated.
Most of my decorative technique takes place in the clay?s surface.
Drawing, combing, faceting and Hakame are my most often used methods
although I am drawn to wax resist between slips. Salt Glazing is a
way of decorating by proxy in that the kiln performs a magic that
isn?t entirely controllable. One can optimistically set the pots in
the kiln in a certain pattern hoping to repeat the effect of a
previous firing. Occasionally all goes to plan. More often the kiln
and the vapours have a greater say. I am currently building a
two-chambered wood fired kiln so that I can explore this element of
?controlled chance? even further. |
Facceted Ash Glazed Bottle |
There is
usually a full range of pieces available at the showroom
attached to the pottery. However, for those of you who live a
long distance away or are overseas the following is a list of
outlets that currently stock my work. Alternatively, you can
email or write to me and I will email to you photographs of
actual pieces available at that time.
Postage is charged extra at cost only and there is no charge for
packing. Please see our contact page. |
Some Galleries where my work can be
found.
Contemporary Ceramics. |
Marshall Street. |
LONDON. |
Contemporary Applied Arts. |
Percy Street. |
LONDON. |
Harlequin Gallery. |
Greenwich High Road. |
LONDON. |
Collections of Harpenden. |
Harpenden. |
Herts. |
Bowie and Hulbert. |
Market Square. |
HAY ON WYE.. |
C.P.A. in the North. |
Rufford Craft Centre. |
OLLERTON. |
New Craftsmen Gallery. |
Fore Street. |
St. IVES. |
Primavera. |
Kings Parade, |
CAMBRIDGE. |
The Gallery. |
Aberystwyth Arts Centre. |
ABERYSTWYTH. |
The Oakwood Gallery. |
Church Street. |
EDWINSTOWE. |
St. Ives Gallery |
Fish Street.. |
ST IVES. CORNWALL |
Gallery St Ives. |
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TOKYO. |
Porticus. |
Middleton Street. |
LLANDRINDOD WELLS. |
Pucker Gallery. |
Newbury Street. |
BOSTON. USA. |
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Phil Rogers
has exhibited widely both in the United Kingdom and Overseas. More
than thirty museums around the world include work in their
collections and there have been more than thirty solo shows together
with numerous group exhibitions in places as far as field as Boston
in the U.S.A. to Tokyo Japan and Seoul in S. Korea. The following is
a brief list of the most notable exhibitions of recent years:-
(Those with an * denote a solo show.)
If you would like us to place you on our mailing list so that you
will be informed of future exhibitions, fairs, workshop sales,
appearances etc. then please either telephone us or
email us from
the contact page. Also, you may purchase pieces by mail if you are
unable to visit our showroom in Rhayader. I can email to you
pictures of pieces that are available for purchase so that you may
make a choice. I think this is preferable to ordering a piece
similar to something you may have seen. This way, you have an
opportunity to purchase the piece of your choice and it will be
mailed to you.
(Postage is charged at cost and there is no charge for packing.) |
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I am a Fellow and Past Chair
of the Craft Potters Association of Great Britain and an elected
member of Contemporary Applied Arts. My work also appears on the
selected index of the Craft Council of Great Britain.
In 1999 I was elected to the International Academy of Ceramics. |
Studio Ceramics ?94. |
Victoria and Albert Museum.London. |
1994. |
British Saltglaze. |
Bremen |
1996. |
?Ash Glazes.? |
Rufford Craft Centre. |
1996. |
*Open Eye Gallery. |
Edinburgh |
1996. |
*On Line Gallery. |
Southampton. |
1996. |
Contemporary British Salt Glaze. |
Leeuwarden |
1996. |
*Tho Art Space.? |
Seoul |
1997. |
?Tobu? Dept. Store. |
Tokyo |
1997. |
?Transformations? |
?Oriel', Cardiff |
1997. |
40 years of the C.P.A. |
Rufford Craft Centre |
1998. |
*Twenty years a potter. |
Harley Gallery |
1998. |
Objects of the Fire. |
Buckinghamshire Museum. Aylesbury |
1999. |
British Studio Pottery. |
Paul Rice Gallery. London. |
1999. |
Europaische Keramik ?99. |
Westerwald |
1999. |
*Bircham Gallery. |
Norfolk. |
1999. |
*Bettles Gallery. |
Ringwood. |
1999. |
Classics vii. |
Kortrijk, Belgium |
1999. |
*Alpha House Gallery. |
Sherborne |
2000. |
*Harlequin Gallery. |
London |
2000. |
*Pucker Gallery. |
Boston |
2001. |
*Harlequin Gallery. |
London |
2002. |
'Salzbrand Keramik'. |
Koblenz. Germany. |
2002. |
*Pucker Gallery. |
Boston. USA |
2003. |
*Contemporary Ceramics. |
London |
2003. |
*Oakwood Gallery. |
Edwinstowe, Nr. Nottingham. UK. |
2003 |
Forthcoming exhibitions. |
'Collect'. |
The Victoria and Albert Museum. London. UK. |
2004. |
*The Harlequin Gallery |
Greenwich, London. UK |
2004. |
*Alpha House Gallery |
Sherborne. Dorset. UK |
2004. |
The Pucker Gallery |
Boston. MA. USA |
January 2005 |
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My work is represented in the following
public collections: |
Victoria and Albert Museum. |
London. |
National Museum of Wales. |
Cardiff. |
Boston Museum of Fine Art. |
Boston. MA USA. |
Art Complex Museum |
Duxbury. MA. USA. |
Cleveland Museum of Art. |
Cleveland. OH. USA. |
Worcester Museum of Art.. |
Worcester Mass. USA. |
International Museum of Folk Art. |
Santa Fe. New Mexico. USA. |
Sackler Museum at Harvard University. |
Boston. Mass. USA. |
Newport Museum of Art. |
Newport, S.Wales. |
University of Wales Collection. |
Aberystwyth. |
City Museum. |
Stoke on Trent. |
Nottingham Castle Museum. |
Nottingham. |
Buckinghamshire Museum. |
Aylesbury. |
Aberdeen Museum of Art. |
Aberdeen. |
Mint Museum of Craft and Design. |
Charlotte. N. Carolina USA |
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.. |
Halifax, Nova Scotia. |
The Schein-Joseph Museum at Alfred
University. |
NY. USA |
The Rhode Island School of Design Museum. |
Rhode Island. USA |
Newark Museum of Art. |
Newark. New Jersey. USA |
Arizona State University Museum. |
Tucson, Arizona. USA. |
Royal Ontario Museum. |
Toronto. Canada. |
Philidelphia Museum of Art. |
Philidelphia. PA. USA. |
York City Museum, William Ismay Collection. |
York. |
Peabody essex Museum. |
Boston. USA. |
Ichon World Ceramic Center, Kyonggi. |
S. Korea.. |
Royal Choson Kiln Museum. |
S. Korea.. |
Keramik Museum. |
Hohr Gretzhausen, Germany. |
Princesshof Museum. |
Nederlands. |
Jan van Houte Collection. |
Instituut Pieter Brueghel, Veghel,
Nederlands. |
National Museum of Wales Schools Collection. |
Degg Industrial Minerals Collection. |
Liantarnam Grange
Handling Collection. |
Cerigidion, Monmouth and Powys County Councils. |
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