|
|
Harlequin Gallery |
|
|
|
||
|
Jim Malone was born in Sheffield
in 1946 and studied ceramics at Camberwell during the early 1970's. While at
Camberwell he spent the summer of 1975 working at the Winchcombe Pottery and
graduated the following year with a first class Honours degree. In 1982 he
moved to Cumbria primarily to join Mike Dodd at Cumbria College of Art in
Carlisle where they started a Ceramics course. During this period he set up a
pottery at Ainstable but because of teaching commitments did not exhibit
widely. In 1990 he
returned to full time potting and has held numerous exhibitions since then at
most of the country's leading galleries, including the Harlequin. He was also
honoured during 1997 and 1998 with a major retrospective exhibition organised
by the Bolton Museum and Manchester Metropolitan University. Jim
acknowledges the influence of Korean, early Chinese and mediaeval English
ceramics in the high-fired wheel-thrown stoneware he produces, which is not
meant to shock or make radical statements. As Jim says, "the work
represents my own personal search for beauty which, in my opinion, is the
only justification of any art". Jim has had
four solo exhibitions at the Harlequin Gallery and examples of his work are
kept in stock. Below are the only two items of Jim’s work
currently available – both were made in Ainstable in 1999 or early 2000 : - |
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
