Jewellery: Wearable Glass opens at Studio Fusion Gallery 3rd March - 26th May, the last venue for this touring exhibition. Join us for the Private View on 7th March 6-8pm
The show 'aims to re-introduce audiences and artists to the amazing potential of glass as a wearable material.'
Work shown was made in collaboration with James Maskery at the National Glass Centre, Sunderland.
New year, new work. I'm delighted to have been selected to take part in the second series of The Language of Clay. I'll be developing new forms over the year and will showcase them at my opening show in Ruthin Craft Centre, February 2019.
'The Language of Clay is an ongoing project that celebrates the diversity of accomplished ceramic practice. It presents new bodies of work by selected contemporary ceramic artists with studio practices in Wales. '
'The project comprises touring solo exhibitions. These are accompanied by interpretation material, publications, a handling collection and participatory programmes. Through project activity, we hope to reveal the delights of clay and the enormous significance of ceramics in our lives. '
'The three artists whose work we’ll enjoy in this series, Justine Allison, Ingrid Murphy and Kate Haywood, are specialists in ceramic practice. For each of them, clay is the primary material, one that they know fundamentally well and each work with in inimitable ways.'
'Balanced between functional and sculptural, Justine’s practice brings us precious porcelain vessels that capture the light. Ingrid has fun pushing the boundaries of technology in her work. Integrating ever-advancing technological resources into her ceramic forms, Ingrid uses familiar items to uncover histories and narratives. Kate creates meticulous sculptural forms. Her conceptual practice is research driven and methodical. Combined with an elegant aesthetic, the precision of her process makes her work poetic.'
Ceri Jones - Curator
Join me for the opening of my exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery on 22nd February 6-8pm (23rd February - 17th October).
I'll be showcasing a newly commissioned piece, alongside 30 selected works, created over a five years period.
'Since graduating just four years ago, Kate Haywood has emerged as one of the UK's most distinctive and imaginative new ceramicists, showing at leading venues in the UK and abroad. She makes intriguing, surreal sculptures in finely modelled porcelain with colourful textiles, glass and metallic elements. Frequently inspired by found objects from long ago and far away, Haywood's works are designed to engage our imagination and senses.’
Janet Boston, Curator of Craft and Design, Manchester Art Gallery
'Kate Haywood is drawn to unusual objects, so we invited her to respond to the Mary Greg collection at Manchester Art Gallery, a unique assemblage of over 3,000 objects collected at the turn of the 20th century.
Mary Greg collected pre-industrial tools, toys, personal accessories and everyday knick-knacks. Greg appreciated handmade objects in an age in which such things were becoming obsolete, discarded in favour of industrial products. Some of her finds were exquisite and unusual, but most were humble household items and inexpensive curios.
Greg’s motivation for collecting was to spark creativity and imagination in others: she wrote
"How glad we all should be if we could know if any (visitors) ever make a single thing… we must leave the answer to the future…"
Kate Haywood has chosen exquisitely decorated Elizabethan plates, known as roundels, from Greg’s collection to inspire her wall piece Feast made especially for Manchester Art Gallery.'
Janet Boston, Curator of Craft and Design, Manchester Art Gallery
Last year I began a new research project with Manchester Art Gallery and the Mary Greg Collection of bygone objects. From the many strange and beautiful objects I handled I was most struck by a set of 12 Elizabethan roundels, their patterned surfaces were still so fresh and vibrant I felt I as though they were bridging time.
The Roundels were used at the end of banquets. Selected guests would be presented with sweetmeats, served on the plain underside of the sycamore rounds, after eating the delicacies the roundels would be turned to reveal lavishly pigmented imagery and a biblical inscription.
Taking these forms as a starting point I've developed a commissioned piece which will be shown alongside the roundels, and other selected works, in a solo exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery this year (PV: 22nd February 6-8pm. Exhibition: 23rd February - 7th October )
The images below show the roundels and works in progress.
Ceramics and It's Dimensions: Shaping the Future exhibition opens in Berlin's Bröhan-Museum on 30th January (28th January - 22 April 2018)
I'll be showing works alongside other 'Future Lights' winners
29th November - 15th December Vittoria Street Gallery, Birmingham
Bringing together practitioners from the fields of design, jewellery, ceramics, metalwork and sculpture Ambiguous Implements presents a collection of contemporary works that playfully reconsider the familiar objects of our day to day domestic life.
The third installment of the exhibition takes place at Vittoria Street Gallery within the School of Jewellery at Birmingham City University showing works by: Rob Anderson, Aimee Bollu, Caroline Broadhead, David Clarke, Nuala Clooney, Rachael Colley, Rosie Deegan, Kate Farley, Daniel Fogarty, Kate Haywood, Jasleen Kaur, Julie Mellor, Maria Militsi, Rebecca Ounstead, Matt Rowe, Jonathan Trayte and Abbie Williams.
25 November 2017 – 27 January 2018
I'll be showing a group of porcelain and textile works alongside glass forms made in collaboration with James Maskery during a residency at the National Glass Centre earlier this year.
'Chris Boland, Emmeline Hastings, Kate Haywood, James Maskrey, Dr. Joanne Mitchell, John Moore, Kaz Robertson, Dr. Ayako Tani, Christopher Thompson Royds, Angela Thwaites, Maud Traon, Heather Woof
Jewellery: Wearable Glass aims to re-introduce audiences and artists to the amazing potential of glass as a wearable material. Glass jewellery has a history going back to the Ancient Egyptians and in the 19th and early 20th century the famous artist René Lalique used glass to make jewellery.
This exciting new ‘wearable glass’ will be presented alongside the twelve artist’s more established work; allowing the viewer to compare the difference between artist’s work in glass and jewellery and what happens when they are brought together.
Curated by Julia Stephenson, Head of Arts at National Glass Centre.'
Thank you Crafts Council for featuring me as the Directory Maker of The Week. My interview is available to read here
Really happy to see my first Ceramic Review article published this month. Thank you Alex McErlain for interviewing me in Fireworks Clay Studios last year for this profile article. It describes my journey from jewellery to ceramics, how my practice has developed over the years and my plans for future projects.
Amulet
30x28x32cm, 2016, porcelain, silk, steel, gold leaf (Photography Christopher Stock)
3rd August - 3rd December
Coin weights shining under a rock in a river. Once nestled inside a woven glove. Placed in speed, the textile rots, is washed away. The metal remains. Held by gravity and the memory of a net. Waiting to be found. Given new contexts, new values, new stories, new meanings. What do we lose and what do we find over time as contexts shift and owners change.
‘Hoard’ actively explores our relationship with objects and how we read them as they knit together with our own personal experiences and narratives. These lost contexts and ambiguous groupings offer the potential for poetic forms to emerge.
I'll be visiting the space throughout the exhibition period to re-group and re-assemble the forms, blending further elements and materials to offer a series of possible final readings.
Visitors are invited to create their own versions of these artefacts in the gallery space to add to an ever growing public hoard of offerings.
Hothouse 2017 - Spot the Talent
12 August – 23 September / Private View: 11 August, 6-8pm
New Ashgate Gallery showcases the work of 12 current Crafts Council's Hothouse Alumni. I'll be showing a range of both table and wall based works.
'Bringing together 17 practitioners from the fields of design, jewellery, ceramics, metalwork and sculpture Ambiguous Implements presents a collection of contemporary works that playfully reconsider the familiar objects of our day to day domestic life'.
Ambiguous Implements has been curated by Laura Mansfield in collaboration with Rachael Colley and Nuala Clooney.
This touring exhibition will open at Bl_nk Space Gallery, Roco on Thursday 6th July 2017 6–9pm, and continues until Saturday 15th July. Open Tuesday to Saturday 11am–6pm.
Delighted to have been selected as a finalist for the ICF Potclays Emerging Maker Award at this year's International Ceramics Festival in Aberystwyth. I'll be exhibiting my work at the event (30th June -2nd July).
I'm showing work in the European touring exhibition 'Shaping the Future' opening next at the Millennium Court Arts Centre (PV Friday 23 June, 7-9pm) continuing from 24 June – 22 July 2017
'The European project Ceramics and its Dimensions seeks to be a part of the rediscovering of the role of ceramics and the bringing forth of the knowledge of the heritage and the different traditions of the use of ceramics'.
Honoured to be included in the 9th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale this year, organised by the Korea Ceramics Foundation (April 22nd - October 9th)
Founded in 2001 to suggest the direction and visions for the future of world ceramics, the International Competition of GICB is the world's most prestigious international event for ceramic art.
Bit, 2016, 17x13x5cm
National Glass Centre Sunderland PV: Friday 24 March, 6-8pm. Exhibition: 25 Mar – 1 Oct
'National Glass Centre presents a new national exhibition of glass jewellery made by bringing together four glass artists and eight of the UK’s most exciting jewellers'.
'As the country’s main centre for glass, National Glass Centre works closely with many leading artists who have a high level of expertise in using different techniques. James Maskrey works in hot glass, Angela Thwaites in cast glass, Ayako Tani in lamp worked glass and Joanne Mitchell works in kiln-formed and waterjet cut glass. These four artists have shared their expertise with the jewellers who have had ten days each to create experimental new work in glass'.
'This exciting new ‘wearable glass’ will be presented alongside the twelve artist’s more established work allowing the viewer to compare the difference between artist’s work in glass and jewellery and what happens when they are brought together.'
My last trip to The National Glass Centre for the final assembling of work.
Julia Stephenson, Head of Arts at National Glass Centre said: “Through this project the jewellers and artists specialising in glass have collaborated, sharing their skills and challenging what is accepted as standard practice in both jewellery and glass. Around forty years ago artists started to make radical new jewellery using ‘non-precious’ materials. This work had an enormous impact on how we consider and value jewellery today. As a result of the very specific skills required to work in glass there has been very little overlap between artists working in glass and those working in jewellery. We have aimed to begin to address this through our exhibition.”
This year I will be attending the 'Glass Adornment' Residency at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland. I'll be working with Master Glass Artist James Maskery to develop new forms which will be on show at NGC from the 25th March
