Frances Spice – Bird Bowl: Top View
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Title: Small Bird Bowl
Artist: Frances Spice
Material: ceramic, glazed
Dimensions: H: 3 cm, Diameter: 10.5 cm
£ 25 / SOLD
Ref.: FS7
To view more work by Frances Spice, please click on the tag in the right column.
Richard Glass Fishes
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Title: Fish
Artist: Richard Glass
Material: Handblown Glass
Dimensions about: H: 8 cm L: 12 D: 4 cm
£ 15 / each
Ref.: RG3
Individual shapes and colours. Dimensions aprox.
It is wet and windy out there, but we are still very much open for business. Earlier in February, we spent 2 days renovating the gallery. All ready for half-term now. We have plenty of new work to exhibit and discover. With Valentine’s Day around the corner, we also have a great selection of jewellery and handmade hearts. Heart cushions, and wire-work and ceramic hangings. Don’t forget to pick up a card, as well.
Beyond Valentine’s Day, we have currently our biggest ever display of Sculptures by Zoe Coles. Her hares, chickens, pigeons and foxes made out of papermache and coated with resin and metal are incredibly lifelike, energetic and wonderful.
New work keeps arriving every week now, so make sure you drop in, when you are in the area not to miss anything. For a small selection, please look at our online shop.
It is looking a lot like Christmas in the gallery and the street. The Christmas lights on Southside look very festive and even the Prawn on West Pier is lit up.
We have so much new work there is a great selection for every budget. Items on display change all the time, make sure you keep popping in to have a look. There is so much to choose from.
We have a great selection of unique and handmade Christmas decorations. They make such a great gift or addition to your own home.
We also have a great choice of glass baubles and small items of jewellery and many other small gifts, as well as special treats. Emmy, who makes the glass baubles has also included some unique vases, which incorporate her knitted copperwire.
Almost all our artists have recently delivered new work. A delivery by Richard Glass included these lovely handblown glass robins. Staying with a bird theme. Frances Spice has delivered more jewellery as well as bird vases and bowls.
Melanie Guy has sent us a great selection of pewter dishes in various sizes as well as paperweights, coasters and two clocks.
The latest arrivals of clocks by Sarah McCormack have sold quickly, but we still have two left and we are hoping to receive more soon.
Entirely new to 45 Southside are chess and mini chess boards by Thais Lenkiewicz.
Another great present.
There is a great article in Ceramic Review about ceramic artist Jenny Beavan who works in china clay. We stock Ceramic Review, Craft Arts, Crafts and Craft and Design magazines as well as Jenny’s work.
The beginning of April has been busy with new work delivered by Lincoln Kirby-Bell, Noah Taylor, Taz Pollard, Jan Brewerton, Kate Packer and Loula-Bells.
We will also be launching a new web-site very soon, with a new an improved blog and online gallery. The old site is still there, if you would like to view a selection of work available.
We have started the 2013 with some new artists and plenty of new work by others. Corinna Butler is new to 45 Southside Gallery. Corinna and has lived in Plymouth for 12 years. She started painting when she was in her teens and then learnt to scuba dive. Diving opened her the door to an underwater world which has inspired her ever since. She joined the Plymouth College of Art to study working with glass. “I like to experiment with different styles and forms. This work was inspired by cloth and tartan, especially ragged pieces and off cuts. I wanted to allow light to move on the pieces so I have left them exposed to the viewer.”
Nicola Crocker who took part in October’s Westcountry Potters Association exhibition has also brought in some new work including a range of framed ceramic landscape tiles.
Another popular ceramic artist Rebecca Harvey’s new work includes a range of bowls in all sizes, vases and beakers in her distinctive colours and tactile surfaces. She has had a busy year after an exhibition in Fortnum and Mason last year. The new work also includes some of her very popular serving dishes on Cornish oak plates and with Cornish pewter spoons.
With Mother’s Day coming up very soon our selection of ceramic, silver and wirework jewellery continues to sell well.
We are featuring Devon Potter Tim Andrews this month. Watch out for some images of his work here very soon. The exhibition looks great and it is almost a shame to part with some of the stunning pieces!
As always you can view more work in detail in our online shop.
Remon Jephcott’s jewellery is new to 45 Southside.
The jewellery is a response to Remon’s research into the world of the Victorians, focusing on the realm of the feminine . An aspect of her inquiry has been inspired by the Victorians love of insect jewellery of all types, which reflected their fascination with classifying nature.
Each piece goes through several kiln firings, from the initial bisque firing to the final lustre firing, which gives each piece it’s precious quality.
The range includes a wide variety of designs including flowers, birds, insects and other designs as well as butterfly shaped brooches, necklaces and earrings.
To view a small selection in more detail, please visit out online gallery.
45 Southside Gallery and Westcountry Potters Association have joined forces to show work by a selection of the association’s members. The exhibition features studio pottery by Adrian Bates, Nicola Crocker, Taz Pollard and Mariette Rennie alongside association members already represented at 45 Southside including Alex McCarthy, Kati Vamos, Iris Milward, Abi Higgins, Anne Cope and Sonje Hibbert.The exhibition is now up and running and very popular already.
Mariette Rennie originally studied theatre and graphic design. She uses colour, textures and abstract shapes to create dimensional illusions. Her work reflects a long-standing fascination with abstract space, theatrically and architecturally. She creates striking contemporary stoneware sculptures.
Adrian Bates also comes from a design background. He says: “I have long been fascinated with lines and curves and how they relate to each other in a given form, and also with vessels and the idea of containment. I love the many aspects of working as a potter; from the making, mainly throwing and coiling, through glaze development to the almost alchemical transformation that takes place in firing. I work in stoneware clays – white with reactive glazes and crank with oxides. “ Adrian makes sculptural as well as functional pieces, which make clever use of curves and glazes to give a very fluid appearance.
Taz Pollard’s work is the result of her MA research at Bath Spa University, where she has created very technically challenging mixed media works combining plastic and ceramics. The pottery forms are very traditional, but given a modern twist through the use of colour or in combination with plastic. She describes her own work as ‘delightfully bonkers’ and ‘playful and curious’.Taz also makes a large range of elegant Japanese inspired functional ceramics like tea bowls and plates or bowls.
Nicola Crocker graduated from Petroc, where Taz Pollard teaches. She is inspired by her coastal environment in North Devon. “Interested in the nature of the clay; the forms I can produce from it, the colours and how the two can work together.” [Nicola Crocker] Her visually stunning and tactile work is the product of a very experimental way or working, particularly with surfaces.
Alex McCarthy also experiments with surfaces and the tactile qualities of clays and glazes. “Using the thrown vessel as a canvas I aim to explore gesture and expression through glaze surface and sourced clays. The surfaces are inspired by textures that surround us such as; tree bark, natural rocks, cracking paint and even marine life. The thrown vessel is used as a canvas to investigate the properties of these surfaces. Thick reduction glazes add depth whilst the gold lustre a sense of opulence.” [Alex McCarthy]
Alex sources his own dug clay from beaches around Devon and Cornwall. He has created a personal and unique palette of glazes. It is the range of textural qualities that can be obtained from different clays and materials taken from the ground that really excites him as a ceramicist and a human being.
The exhibition runs until the 19th November and also includes new work by Westcountry Potters Members already exhibiting at 45 Southside.
Christina Peters works as a ceramicist at her studio at ‘Flameworks’ – Creative Arts Facility in Plymouth. She specializes in tableware, using white and black stoneware clay and porcelain, as well as more sculptural raku pieces. Her work is influenced by Japanese techniques and traditional forms as well as European modernistic movements such as Bauhaus, aiming for new contemporary interpretations of classic designs.
She is concerned with the fusion of form and surface, with clean sculptural lines, balanced with organically inspired finishes. 
She uses coloured slips, washes of oxides and glazes in combination with a raw, partly burnished clay surface to allow an undisturbed expression of form and material.
To view Christina’s work in more details, please visit our online shop.
Sarah McCormack shows her humorous and very collectable ceramics at 45 Southside in Plymouth
45 Southside continues its series of temporary exhibitions with ceramic artist Sarah McCormack. The exhibition runs from 3rd of May until 11th June 2012 at the gallery. Sarah is well known for her high-quality and quirky ceramics, particularly for her series of “stroppy” clocks.
Sarah’s work frequently explores the idea of home – from children’s drawings to her own paintings and illustrations. Recently culminating in a series of actual houses, dwellings and dovecots. These are made from stoneware, earthenware and most recently raku working with raku artist Christina Peters at Flameworks in Plymouth, who also exhibits at 45 Southside.
Sarah has been producing ceramics since studying at Sunderland College of Art & Design, where she graduated with a degree in Glass & Ceramics in 1985.
From 1998 – 2006 Sarah made ceramic multipiece panels and one piece impressed panels , techniques combining multiple glazing with incising and impressing. This experimentation has led to a very good understanding of slabwork and a wide range of mostly earthenware glazes.
Since moving to Plymouth, Sarah has returned to three dimensional work. Her current work is influenced by experiments with different clays and decorates with oxides, engobes, glazes and lustres.
Time consuming ceramic techniques combined with lack of available work time led to the development of a series of ‘ stroppy clocks ‘ which combine architectural form with human characteristics.
Sarah will be holding a demonstration of her techniques at 45 Southside on Sunday 6th of May 2012 from 3pm followed by a chance to meet the artist at the opening view of her exhibition. Both exhibition and the demonstration are free and all are welcome. Please see web-site for details.
