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Jim Malone

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.

Upon graduating he established his first pottery studio in North Wales, where he remained for six years, making pots and working as a visiting lecturer in Wales and at Camberwell.

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 : -


Korean style bottle – tenmoku with nuka to the shoulder. Originally exhibited in his solo Harlequin Gallery exhibition 2000.
Height: 34.9cm (13.75”)
Price: £500
RESERVED

 
Baluster jug, combed with sycamore ash glaze. Originally exhibited in his solo Harlequin Gallery exhibition 2000.
Height: 29.9cm (11.75”)
Price: £280

 

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