This pot sold on 26th January. I'll probably add another one before the month is up (probably a yellow/pink one). Come back soon please!
Exhibitions:
This section will be updated regularly, as new exhibitions and stockists are confirmed.
Private Views will be held for many of these events. Come along if you like! Just send us a message for more details. Again, this list will be added to over the course of the year, so come back to see what else I am doing every now and again.
April 19th and lasts 6 - 8 weeks
'Bowls For Peace' exhibition, focussing on four artists who will produce work around the theme. Freedom Works gallery, Brussels, Belguim.
Summer 2012
Photography exhibition from Independent Curator utilising 30 artists with disposable cameras. Multiple venues across the UK.
Early July to Mid September (subject to change) to coincide with the Olympics.
'Agents Of Death' solo show, consisting of all three floors of the Old House Museum, Hereford.
Culminating around May and in Sept/Oct issue of Ceramic Review
Collaboration with poet/playwright Rommi Smith, with the broad project brief: 'text'. Project instigated by Ceramic Review. There is talk of a physical exhibtion as well as a feature article.
Dates TBC
Bevere Gallery, Worcester.
Stockists for 2012 are:
European Makers' Gallery
Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Wobage Workshops
Herefordshire, UK. (Thusday - Sunday 10 - 5 all year excluding Jan/Feb or by appointment)
Mickerloo Gallery
Chester, UK.
and coming soon...
Bevere Gallery
Worcester, UK.
What happened in 2011
Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter shows at Wobage Workshops, Herefordshire. Click here for more details.
May 8th - 14th: Jazzcakes: 100 postcards, exhibition of conceptual postcards, The Royal Standard Project Space, Liverpool.
June 2nd - 28th: Dinner For One installation, plus 8 metre window display and more at Milkwood Gallery, Cardiff.
June 2nd - 28th: 100:Postcards exhibition at Milkwood Gallery, Cardiff.
June 10th - 12th: Three day demonstrations, lectures and teaching at Wobage Workshops, Herefordshire.
August 4th - September 18th: The Courtyard, Herefordshire's Centre for the Arts, Talking In Clay exhibition, Hereford.
August 5th - 7th: Art In Clay (aka Hatfield), two complimentary stands: an outdoor display for sculptural ceramics and another as part of Wobage Gallery. Art In Clay is in Hatfield.
September 16th - 18th: Three day demonstration/artist in residence at The Courtyard, Hereford.
October 1st - November 13th: British Ceramics Biennial Open Shelf.
November 19th and 20th, and every Thursday - Sunday 10-5 until Christmas - Wobage Christmas Show, Herefordshire.
November 25th - Christmas Eve: Christmas exhibition at The Sho, Cardiff.
December 3rd-4th: Kate Malone open studio exhibition, Ball Pond Studios, Hackney, London
Articles written by Josh in 2011:
Off-Centre, Ceramic Review 246, "Josh Redman discusses the importance of creative criticism". Read it here
Ceramic Review 249, "Ceramics As A Shifting Discipline". Read it here
Ceramic Review 251, "Potters Tips".
Full CV available on request.
Why I make things..
I understand 'emotion' as a physical thing in itself - if you 'feel' something, it's because you physically feel it. The gut feeling, the knee jerk reaction, the pang of guilt - emotions (a word related to 'motion') are sensory based.
Emotions are not generally the screaming, cathartic type - their profundity lie as much in their ubiquity as their ability to transcend whatever 'everday life' is. They dictate the meter of a conversation, and help to make subtle, real-time decisions. I try to work so that my physical art is not just a metaphor for emotion/thought, but it IS the emotion/thought, becoming part of a physical object that remains with us. Just like a rubber mark left by a rubber tyre. It is the same actual stuff, just rubbed off onto something else.
There are, of course, other strands in my work. The inseperability of mind/physicality/thought are what led me to start making work in the first place, even when I was a kid and I didn't know that these things were already taken seriously.
Sometimes people ask if my pots are my 'bread and butter' work. No! They are just part of my work. There is an odd satisfaction in knowing that by making functional objects, my feelings are eaten off of, and drunk from, in everday life.
A brief history..
In 2004, I took a three year apprenticeship in traditional pottery, making thrown table, garden and oven wares. I then took a degree at UWIC, Cardiff, and got a First. Since then my studio has been at Wobage Workshops in Herefordshire, a traditional pottery workshops in the countryside. This is where I make sculpture and experimental one-off functional/semi-functional pottery and vessels. I also produce installations, photography and occasional paintings. I also write occasionally for publications.
Wobage Workshops,
Upton Bishop,
Ross-On-Wye,
Herefordshire,
HR9 7QP
07855232693
10-5, Thursday-Sunday (excluding Jan/Feb)
Use 'normal' view to navigate roads on the map to the left.
Josh works from a traditional craft workshops, which has a gallery attached for functional ceramics. Visit Josh and his studio here, and see his more functional work in the gallery. If you want to meet Josh specifically, phone in advance to make sure he will be on site.
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Wobage
www.workshops-at-wobage.co.uk
This is where I've been making my work from since 2009. I'll be moving to London soon, but what a great place - idyllic and spacious with a great gallery attached.
Kate Malone
www.katemaloneceramics.com
Generous and enormously succesful ceramist who kindly let me exhibit at her open studio, and has given so much of her time over the past few years. Thanks Kate!
Walter Keeler
no personal site but his stuidiopottery.com profile is good.
A household name in ceramics for decades, but also a very supportive and kind man.
Cardiff Ceramics
www.cardiff-school-of-art-and-design.org/courses/ceramics
This is where I studied during my BA - a highly reccommended ceramics degree and the biggest in Europe. All of the staff are superb, with Ingrid Murphy moving the degree into continually greater territory.
The Sho Gallery
www.thesho.co.uk
A young gallery in Cardiff with a good eye for design.
Studiopottery
www.studiopottery.co.uk
Mostly for those interested in studio pottery, it's a large resource and makes for addictive browsing. The owner, Stephen, has been fantastically useful and enthusiastic.
Art In Clay (aka Hatfield)
www.hatfield.artinclay.co.uk
Owner Andy McInnes has been so useful and generous, and the festival is absolutely huge! There's also one in Farnham.
Jazzcakes
www.jazzcakes.com
James curates occasional exhibitions that help to bring a sense of community to fine art.
Conor Wilson
www.conwilson.com
One of my favourite artists using ceramics and a fun teacher.
and not least, here is a list of other artists and galleries etc who are great!
G39/Warp
Milkwood
Natalia Dias
Dylan Bowen
Alexander Archer-Todde
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