about
Ashley Howard is a potter and part-time Lecturer in ceramics at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham. He studied for his Masters degree at the Royal College of Art. He has published a number of articles on technical and aesthetic issues. He has exhibited, demonstrated and lectured all over the world, spending considerable time in Japan and China. His achievements on the national and international stages underpin his membership of the International Academy for Ceramics http://www.aic-iac.org/. Howard has work in public and private collections and has featured in a number of publications.
Biography overview
In 2004/5 Howard collaborated with fellow RCA alumnus Martin Lungley for the touring exhibition Full Circle. The exhibition was designed to showcase the possibilities of wheel-thrown ceramics, the catalogue included contributions by Alison Britton and Emmanuel Cooper.
Howard’s next project was the ambitious Ritual and Setting. This was an exhibition of work made for and inspired by Winchester cathedral. The supporting catalogue includes articles by Professor Simon Olding, Professor Dame Magdalene Odundo OBE and Amanda Fielding.
Between 2012 and 2014 Howard worked on a collaborative project with Japanese Potter, Risa Ohgi the resulting exhibition, Shima Kara Shima E (From Island to Island) opened at the Leach Gallery in St Ives.
In 2014 Howard spent the summer working at Shigaraki developing a new range work that set out to explore his interests in colour and spirituality. The work on to be shown at Guildford cathedral in 2018 as the exhibition, Meditations. The catalogue included articles by Adrian Bland, Reverend Canon Dr Julie Gittoes and James Rawlin.
2017 saw Howard working with JJ Rawlin Art Advisory to exhibit alongside paintings and drawings by William Scott RA at a private address in London.
In November 2018 Howard was invited by Tsinghua University. Widely seen as China’s leading arts institution, Tsinghua invited Howard to exhibit in the 6th International Tea Culture Exchange Exhibition and Conference. Howard was the only westerner taking part. He was among two hundred plus participants from China, Japan and Korea. This added special significance to Ashley’s inclusion and is an indicator of how well received his work is in the Far-East.
Writer and critic David Whiting has said of Howard’s work, 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.
アシュリー・ハワードの作品は驚くほどその新鮮さを失わない。彼は過去のものへの揺るぎない、しかも厳しい眼をもった探究者であり、賛美者である。そして多彩な陶芸の伝統の恩恵を明らかに受けながら、彼自身の極めてモダンで機知に富んだ、稀なる自由な表現の中に、それらのアイディアを見事に取り込むことに成功している。
ディヴィッド・ワイティング：ライター、評論家
Ashley Howard的作品中保留着极致的新鲜度。他是个粗旷却又带着一丝严密的探索者，同时也一位是代表着过去的司仪神父。他的作品显然受惠于许多陶瓷的传统，但是他能将这些想法吸收并把它们融汇成一个非常当代，富有思想的理念，并把它们用他自己的语言表达出来。
David Whiting 作家，评论员。