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Anja Lubach
Porcelain and earthenware Sunday 16th June to Sunday 7th July 2002
No.69 One stem broad earthenware jar - Height: 23cm.				No.41 Black porcelain halo vase - Height: 25cm.
No.67 One stem cream porcelain jar - Height: 11cm.
No.79 Porcelain wall piece - Diameter: 16cm.				. No.68 Plump one stem cream porcelain jar - Diameter: 18cm
THE IMAGES ABOVE ARE OF ITEMS INCLUDED IN THE EXHIBITION
Anja Lubach is rare amongst exhibitors at the Harlequin Gallery. She is one of the few potters to be shown here who has approached the gallery, rather than the other way. She is also unique in that her first exposure is a solo exhibition and this has been chosen by Ceramic Review as the "pick of the shows" that start in the UK during June. This suggests that others share my view that Anja is destined to be a significant name in the pottery world in years to come. Born in Germany in 1969, Anja took her degree at Loughborough College of Art & Design, followed by an MA in Ceramics at the Royal College of Art from where she graduated in 2000. During her time at the RCA, Anja was awarded with an industrial placement at Rosenthal AG, the major German porcelain manufacturer, and was a finalist in the Royal Society of Art industrial glass design competition. Although her work with glass was a secondary interest, I think that the fluidity of that medium has had an influence on her use of clay. The ceramics and glass dealer, Adrian Sassoon and the fashion designer, Bruce Oldfield, both bought work from Anja’s RCA graduation show. Last year she followed this up by showing successfully at the Sotheby’s Contemporary Decorative Arts exhibition in Bond Street during February and the Chelsea Craft Fair in the autumn. She has also already exhibited in Milan, Frankfurt and Selb-Plossberg and earlier this year was shown at the Carlin Gallery in Paris. Since graduating Anja’s work has been exclusively porcelain, which is thrown and then altered. Much of her Harlequin Gallery exhibition will continue this exploration, with new shapes and ideas. Indeed on my visits to Anja’s studio, this continual desire to experiment has proved infectious and led me to look at porcelain in an entirely different way. However to complement this, Anja has recently started to use earthenware again and examples of this new work will also be included in the Harlequin Gallery exhibition.
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