12 Pottery Lane, Wrecclesham, FARNHAM, Surrey, GU10 4QJ
01252 719808 (home) 07970 424762 (mobile)
E-mail: ashleyhoward@ukonline.co.uk
Web: www.ashleyhoward.co.uk

QUALIFICATIONS

2003 MA, Ceramics and Glass. Royal College of Art
1993 Fully qualified teaching status granted by DES
1987 HND, Ceramics, University of Creative Arts, Rochester

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2006 – date Senior Lecturer:
BA (Hons) Three Dimensional Design & Contemporary Craft Practice: Ceramics
Pathway Leader:
MA Contemporary Crafts
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham
2004 – 2006 Visiting Lecturer:
BA (Hons) Wood, Metal, Ceramics & Plastics
BA (Hons) Three Dimensional Design
University of Brighton
2004 – 2006 Visiting Lecturer: BA (Hons) Ceramics, Christchurch University College, Canterbury
2003 – 2004 Artist in Residence: University of Creative Arts, Rochester
2002 – 2003 Visiting Lecturer: BA (Hons) Ceramics, University of Creative Arts, Rochester
2000 – 2001 Acting Course Leader: BA (Hons) Ceramics, University of Westminster, Harrow
1989 – 2000 Practising Potter & Visiting Lecturer at various institutions
1987 – 1989 Technician: NDD & HND Ceramics, University of Creative Arts, Rochester

MEMBERSHIPS

2008 Trustee, Farnham Pottery Trust
2007 Brother, Art Workers Guild
2001 Fellow, Higher Education Academy
2001 Member, General Teaching Council
1993 Fellow, Craft Potters Association

AWARDS INCLUDE

2002 Shortlist, Twyfords Bathtime project, Royal College of Art
1997 Peers Award, Art in Clay, Hatfield House
1995 Peers Award, Milsbeek, Netherlands

SELECTED WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS

2007 Demonstrator, ISCAEE Conference, UCCA, Farnham
2006 Demonstrator, ISCAEE Conference, Tsinghua University, Beijing
2001 & Mo Jupp, Symposium, Tel-Hai, Israel
1995 – 2000 Demonstrations for numerous artists and potters groups

SOLO EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE

2009 Ritual and Setting, Winchester Cathedral
2008 Showcase, Cotemporary Ceramics, London
2000 One Two Five Gallery, Bath
1999 Lynn Strover Gallery, Cambridge
1998 Galerie van Meensel, Belgium
1996 Nijmegen Museum, Netherlands

2/3 PERSON EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE

2007 Bettles Gallery
2004 – 2005 Full Circle, & Martin Lungley, international touring exhibition
Brown, Bickers & Howard, The Tunnel Gallery, Tonbridge School
2003 Thomas Corman Arts, Cork Street
Brown, Bickers & Howard, Urban Interiors, London
1997 & John Pollex, Bettles Gallery

GROUP EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE

2009 Beyond Tradition, Bevere Gallery, Stroud
2008 Pothrminster Gallery, Cornwall
Ceramics In The Round, Buxton, Derbyshire
Jugs and bowls, Bettles Gallery
Ceramic Art London, RCA
Leach Pottery Restoration, Bonhams
Craft2EU Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
2007 ISCAEE, James Hockey Gallery, UCCA, Farnham
Ceramic Art London, RCA
2006 ISCAEE, Tsinghua University, Beijing
Ceramic Art London, RCA
Traditional Yet Contemporary: Modern Korean Ceramics (guest exhibitor) Air Gallery
2005 Table Manners, Crafts Council touring exhibition
Functional Form Now, Galerie Besson
Keramuse, Netherlands
Ceramic Art London, RCA
Chawan International, Belgium
Surfacing Now, The Tunnel Gallery, Tonbridge School
2004 Ceramic Art London, RCA
Feast Your Eyes, crafts Council, V&A
Egg
One Year On, Crafts Council at New Designers
2002 British Ceramics, France, touring exhibition
2001 Ceramic Contemporaries 4, touring exhibition
2000 NYAD2000, New York
1996 Keramuse, Netherlands
1994 Craft potters Association, V&A

BOOKS, ARTICLES & REVIEWS

2008 In Tune With Colour, Ceramics Monthly, Helen Bevis, December issue
The Leach Restoration Project, Bonhams
2007 The Beauty of Imperfection, Bonnie Kempske, Ceramic Review, 225 May/June
2006 Full Circle: David Briers, Crafts magazine 198
Vitality and Essence: Ian Gregory catalogue,
2005 Functional Form Now, preview, Daily Telegraph, February 7th
2004 Full Circle, catalogue, by Alison Britton and
Dead Ends and Possibilities, Alison Britton, Ceramic Review 210, November/December
Altered States, , Ceramic Review, 205 January/February
2003 Make Tracks To…, Daily Telegraph, May 31st
Homes and Property, Corrine Julius, London Evening Standard, May 28th
The Glaze Book, Stephen Murfitt
Ceramic Decoration, Jo Connell
Stoneware, Richard Dewar
2001 Searching & Finding: Kyra Cane, , Ceramic Review, 187 January/February
2000 Matt Glazes, Ashley Howard, Ceramic Review, 186 November/ December
The Complete Practical Potter, Josie Warshaw
1997 Strong Form Vibrant Colour, David Whiting, Ceramic Review, 166 July/August

OTHER

2006 Neck tie design, RFU, Twickenham
2005 Demonstrator, Family Contract, BBC1 television
Earth & Fire, catalogue,
2004 Selector, Earth & Fire, Rufford
2001 Judge, Alix de Rothschild exhibition, Israel

Ashley Howard

Ashley Howard produces porcelain and stoneware vessels in two distinct areas: a range of tableware informed by a dialogue between Far-Eastern and homespun pottery traditions, and one-off pieces that draw on his interest in ritual vessels, the spaces they occupy and the ceremonies that surround them. Notions of reverence and transience are also explored in this work are as well as notions of reverence and transience.

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.

Ashley Howard studied initially at the Kent Institute of Art and Design and combined teaching with a full and rewarding career as a potter. He became a member of the CPA in 1994, when he was known for his vivid blue thrown and altered jar forms. In 2001 he returned to full-time study at the Royal College of Art, and it this experience that was the catalyst for a dramatic change in his work. In 2004/5 he collaborated with friend and fellow RCA alumni Martin Lungley for the international touring exhibition Full Circle. The exhibition was designed to showcase the possibilities of wheel-thrown ceramics, and its catalogue included contributions by Alison Britton and Emmanuel Cooper.

Ashley Howard is senior lecturer in ceramics at the University for the Creative Arts at Farnham, Surrey, where he oversees both the undergraduate programme in 3-D Design and the MA in Contemporary Crafts. He has published a number of articles on technical and aesthetic issues.