Mathias and Kirsten from 45 Southside art gallery send word of an invite to a private viewing of Tim Andrews Exhibition.
Dear Friends,
We would like to warmly invite you and your friends to meet Tim Andrews and to view his latest ceramic works, inspired by a visit to China. Whilst there he visited old Sung Dynasty kiln sites and has since mastered some very difficult techniques and challenges to combine raku, porcelain and black stoneware.
The outcome is some truly stunning work, which we would like to welcome you to enjoy at 45 Southside Gallery on the evening of the 1st of March 2013 from 6-8pm.
Tim Andrews ceramics will be on exhibition at 45 Southside on Plymouth’s historic Barbican througout March 2013.
We look forward to seeing you at 45 Southside Gallery,
Mathias and Kirsten
Press Release – Internationally acclaimed potter Tim Andrews exhibits his ceramics at 45 Southside Gallery on Plymouth’s historic Barbican
45 Southside Gallery starts a new year of exhibitions with an internationally renowned and collected, but locally based potter Tim Andrews. Tim Andrews has gained an International reputation for his distinctive smoke-fired and raku ceramics.
Many works are black and white with linear decoration or burnished with muted coloured slips. His pieces have been acquired for both public and private collections and are exhibited widely across the UK and abroad.
Tim has been working as a potter for more than 35 years starting as an apprentice to David Leach in the late 1970s. Tim describes his own work and experience as : “Ceramics doesn’t recognise age and only nods its head occasionally towards experience. The raku firing process continues to surprise and frustrate me. Of all ceramic methods, Raku in particular
prefers to remain feral by nature, refusing to be tied down or controlled. Of course that is its appeal as well as its frustration. I still find working within a limited colour palette provides endless possibilities. The same raw materials have been used for centuries: clay – river washed and stratified, metal oxides and minerals from the ground used to produce colour and depth in glazes. The historical and material gaps are small. Human intervention and expression transforms and imparts meaning that we can all engage with. Linear decoration using smoke and ‘resist’ remains a favourite technique – black, white and just a few glazes. The ‘soft’ burnished or glazed surfaces for me, lend a warmth and intimacy to the pieces, integrating form and decoration“.
His latest work was inspired by a visit to China, where he visited old Sung Dynasty kiln sites. He has since mastered some very difficult techniques and challenges to combine raku, porcelain and black stoneware. The outcome is some truly stunning work, which will be on exhibition at 45 Southside in March 2013.
