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This exhibition is an attempt to mix and fertilize the exchange between Great Britain and Korea.
British crafts shows as Collect and Chelsea Craft Show displayed curatorial endeavours
that encouraged London to be the centre of artistic diversity and leading the design and arts industry.
Similar efforts are happening in Korea with World Ceramics Biennales and competitions
by the World Ceramics Exposition Foundation.
It has effectively acquired its stance since its foundation
in 2001 through enormous investment in engage international artists and scholars.
One could recognize its need to establish on-going events in London.
Here presents the important ceramic artists who demonstrate the great tradition of British crafts,
starting from 'father of British Potter's tradition' Bernard Leach to exciting contemporary British ceramic artists.
Ashley Howard
Ashley Howard's bowls are part of a continuing enquiry in to an East West dialogue.
Howard has been very much influenced by the Far Eastern approach to clay especially
that of the Japanese Oribe wares produced in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The natural organic properties accentuated by the clay's plasticity are qualities that have always featured in Howard's work.
Howard is keen to acknowledge his own cultural location and in doing so sets out to celebrate the traditions of eastern
and western pottery along with wider elements brought about by his studies at the Royal of Art.
Firstly Howard challenges our perception of porcelain;
by treating this usually fine and delicate material with such vigour that objects concerning weight, mass and substance result.
Secondly, Howard draws upon his interests in space, ceremony and music when designing, printing and placing his collaged enamels on to the bowls.
The products of this process, although relatively small in scale,
have an attention-grabbing demand on our senses while at the same time reveal more contemplative and restful qualities.
"The work of Ashley Howard remains extraordinarily fresh.
He is an assured but rigorous explorer and celebrant of the past, clearly indebted to a variety of ceramics traditions,
but he has been able to absorb these ideas into a very modern, resourceful and uncommonly free language of his own."
David Whiting.
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