This is the first of many little insights into to how our amazing makers go about creating the wonderful work that you will find within the gallery and in our online shop. This is the impressive Abi Higgins firing some of her copper wash pots.
Here is a short clip of Lincoln making dots with coloured slip. Mesmerizing!
Tim is known for his subtle use of texture and colour on porcelain, but this latest work moves him into uncharted territory. Each of his unique bowls, vases and ceramic boxes are thrown on the wheel and enclose a space filled with texture, colour and surprise. The new flowing, loosely applied glazes surround and enclose precise forms, creating a dichotomy between the interior and exterior space. Smooth, glossy or textured, each of these coloured pieces beg to be handled. Tim goes to great lengths to achieve the right texture and colour for the perfectly thrown pots. Developing new glazes plays an important part of Tim’s life as a potter.
Find some of Tim’s pots available here.
This summer 45 Southside will be exhibiting a selection of work from Lucy Richards, a recent graduate of 3D Design Crafts with a degree from Arts University Plymouth. Lucy received multiple awards at her graduate showcase including 45 Southside Galleries’ Graduate Showcase Award. There was a high standard of 3D graduate work to select from but Lucy’s stood out conceptually and aesthetically.
Lucy’s degree project is called “Navigate: A Series of Markers”, is a series of mixed media sculptures inspired by the variety of coastal and oceanic navigation markers that Lucy has encountered around Plymouth Sound and Mount Batten. These symbolic brightly coloured buoys assist with navigation and data collection and are specific to coastlines. For example, cardinal markers indicate safe water and lateral markers indicate direction of travel. Lucy has responded to the architectural forms, compositions, and bright colours of these markers, which she has abstracted to produce geometric frameworks that are filled with deformed blown glass and concrete structures. At times, during her third-year studies, Lucy felt as if she was ‘lost at sea’, so these waymarkers became poignant symbols. After an amazingly response to her graduate show, Lucy is no longer ‘lost at sea’ and has plans to pursue glass as a medium. Lucy has an exciting future ahead of her.
We are proud to announce that we will be exhibiting the work of two recent graduates from the Plymouth Arts University. Suzi Humphries’ ceramic vessels and metal and glass sculptures by Harry Chadwick. Both just gained their first class honours degree in 3D Design Crafts. 45 Southside Gallery will be exhibiting their work from 1st October to 15th November 2022.
We are thrilled to announce we now stock glass by Emmy Palmer, a Plymouth based artist. Inspired by the sea and moors, her pieces are beautifully crafted and a joy to handle.
Here is a little update about new ceramics that have recently arrived. We now stock Penny Simpsons terracotta tableware. Her latest design is inspired by a visit to Australia which works really well with the traditional shapes and the rustic red terracotta ceramic.
Tim Gee doesn’t make many pots but if we get hold of some of his vessels they are perfect, resonable priced and they sell quickly. Tim spends many hours developing and testing new glazes applied to fine white porcelain.
We all need a bit of colour. These hand-built and wheel-thrown stoneware ceramics by Mathias Landwehr are bright and tactile. Designs are applied freely on the pot so every piece is a one-off.
In case you have to find us on the Barbican just ask for the yellow shopfront. At our lovely Barbican shopping street we are on the shaded side so we simply invited the sun over to our gallery. Freshly painted and now we are pretty much unmissable. Open 7 days a week we showcase contemporary artworks by Devon and Cornwall artists. Actually, I almost forgot, it is our 12th anniversary 1st of May. WAHEY !
During this lockdown we are available Mondays and Wednesdays to Saturdays 11:00 – 15:00 for parcel deliveries and collections. Any orders will be processed as usual and for our locals we do Click and Collect. Order by phone, through our online shop or via email.
Online Shop: www.45southside.co.uk/shop
Wild Swimming Ceramics by Lucie Sivicka.
Just in time for Christmas! We have new and exciting work by Czech Potter Lucie Sivicka. With the growing popularity of wild swimming in the Southwest, this series of work is perfect for our coastal gallery. Each piece is unique, wheelthrown, illustrated and glazed by hand.
Lucie’s work is inspired by the wild swimmers in Newlyn, Cornwall.