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Harlequin Gallery |
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Mike
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Below is
an example of Mike's work currently available from the gallery. |
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Mike Dodd started
an article in the now defunct Pottery Quarterly magazine in 1974 with the
words "because of the heart, in spite of the head". The
article resulted in him being invited down to St. Ives by Bernard Leach at
the time but I use it now as it perfectly describes Mike's work and
philosophy as much today as it did back then. Mike's work has been categorized as being in the
"Leach" or "Anglo Oriental" tradition but I feel that
Mike's pots are more than this. I believe that they are a continuing
development of traditional pottery by a fine artist and as Phil Rogers says
in his book "Ash glazes", Mike "is making some of the most
exciting work ever seen in this country". The Harlequin Gallery held its second solo exhibition of Mike's
work in the autumn of 2000.This was the first exhibition of work from what is
now Mike's sixth pottery and Ceramic Review, the international magazine of
ceramics, nominated it as the top exhibition anywhere during
November/December 2000. It certainly lived up to that billing but it hasn't
altered Mike's plan to cut down on the number of exhibitions he holds over
the next few years and to concentrate on settling in to what he believes will
be his final workshop. Mike Dodd is a considerable talent and his work is to be found in
all of the major public collections in the UK, including the V&A Museum,
the British Craft Council Collection, the Farnham Study Collection, the
Cleveland Craft Collection and that of the Ulster Museum in Belfast. Mike's most recent solo exhibitions at the Harlequin Gallery took
place in 2003 and 2007. |
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