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Alan Wallwork
Alan Wallwork was born in Hertfordshire in 1931. However, having Alan’s pots at the Harlequin Gallery is a bit like a homecoming, as he studied ceramics a few miles up the road at Goldsmith's College in the 1950's. His tutors at Goldsmiths were Gordon Baldwin and Kenneth Clark, who were very influential on him and many of his contemporaries. After leaving Goldsmiths he set up his first workshop and gallery in Forest Hill in 1957 before moving just around the corner from what is now the Harlequin Gallery in 1960. In those days Alan worked with a number of assistants and sub-let part of his pottery to Bernard Rooke and Robert & Sheila Fournier. Much of the work produced during that period was sold through Heals, the department store in London's West End. However, from the 1970's he mover to Dorset and for the last twenty years or so has worked alone producing individual pieces. Alan states that "enigmatic traces of earlier lives have always intrigued him and influence his work - traces of people and their responses to the sun, moon, the seasons, fertility - and traces of much earlier life forms that have left their mark so abundantly in the landscape where he lives." Alan moved to France at the end of 2004 and an exhibition of the last pots to be made in this country was held at the Harlequin Gallery during November 2004. Solo exhibitions of the best of the previous year’s work from France were held in 2007, 2008 and in March 2009 the last Harlequin Gallery exhibition at 68 Greenwich High Road featured the best of his 2008 pots.
WALLWORK TILES from the late 1960s/early 1970s. Following unprecedented interest, all the tiles offered recently have been sold with the exception of a few examples of the tile above. Dimensions: 15.25cm (6”) square. Price: £5 each
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