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Ashley Howard lives and works in Kent. He studied at the Kent Institute of Art and Design and later at the Royal College of Art. He produces porcelain and stoneware vessels that occupy two different areas. The first is a range of tableware informed by a dialogue between Far-Eastern and homespun pottery traditions. The second body of work comprises of one-off pieces which draw upon his interest in ritual vessels, the spaces they occupy and the ceremonies that surround them. Wider issues explored in this work are location, space and narrative as well as notions of reverence and transience. His work is made from porcelain and stoneware bodies. Almost all the work is thrown on the wheel although at times it might be subject to varying degrees of manipulation and altering. For the larger porcelain Fonts amounts of paper and dried clay chunks of clay are added to the body. The stoneware body is a blend of darker earthenware clays with grogged stoneware clays. After biscuit firing pieces are glazed fired to stoneware temperatures in electric kilns. The tableware is presented with food-safe transfer designs, lifted from his own abstract watercolours, which have then been digitally altered prior to printing. Tableware can be supplied without transfers. Other glazes include an off-white silken effect and a deep glassy brown/black developed for the electric kiln. With regard to the more one-off collaged pieces, specific techniques have been developed to print, with enamels, panels and designs which are then located on to the glazed surface before being fired in to it. The stoneware pieces carry a multitude of brushed layers of enamel before outline patterns are either drawn or collaged onto the surface. These pieces might be fired up to ten times or more.
ASHLEY HOWARD 3 Albion Road, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, Kent, TN1 2PB 01892 533158 (home) 07970 424762 (mobile) E-mail: ashleyhoward@ukonline.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 of 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
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
2006 Demonstrator, ISCAEE Conference, Tsinghua University, Beijing 2001 Ashley Howard & Mo Jupp, Symposium, Tel-Hai, Israel 1995 – 2000 Demonstrations for numerous artists and potters groups
SOLO EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE
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
2004 – 2005 Full Circle, Ashley Howard & 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 Ashley Howard & John Pollex, Bettles Gallery
GROUP EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE
2006 ISCAEE, Tsinghua University, Beijing 2006 Traditional Yet Contemporary: Modern Korean Ceramics (guest exhibitor) Air Gallery 2005 Table Manners, Crafts Council touring exhibition Functional Form Now, Galerie Besson Keramuse, Netherlands Chawan International, Belgium Surfacing Now, The Tunnel Gallery, Tonbridge School 2004 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
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, Ashley Howard 2005 Functional Form Now, preview, Daily Telegraph, February 7th 2004 Full Circle, catalogue, by Alison Britton and Emmanuel Cooper Dead Ends and Possibilities, Alison Britton, Ceramic Review 210, November/December Altered States, Ashley Howard, 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, Ashley Howard, 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, Ashley Howard 2004 Selector, Earth & Fire, Rufford 2001 Judge, Alix de Rothschild exhibition, Israel |
