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Poh Chap Yeap |
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Poh Chap
Yeap
is the son of a Chinese family and was born in what is now Malaysia back in 1927.
He came to England in 1948 to study law and it was not until the early 1960's
that he discovered pottery when he went to visit his future parents-in-law in
Denmark. Back in
England he went to evening classes to learn to pot and from there to the Hammersmith
College of Art and then to the Royal College of Art, as a research student. His work
consisted of wheel thrown porcelain and stoneware in the Chinese tradition,
including some with brushwork decoration, and he very quickly gained a
considerable reputation. In fact during his career he was undoubtedly one of
the major potters in this country, if not the world, and was regarded on an
equal footing with Leach, Rie and Coper. In fact some of his work, although
it was never on a large scale, was selling for around £1000 at the height of
his fame. He became the
first living potter to exhibit at the Ashmoleum Museum in Oxford and had many
other exhibitions during the 1970's, including ones at the V&A Museum,
London as well as in Tokyo, New York, Heidelberg and Faenza. After the
death of his wife in the early 1980's, Yeap began to lose interest in potting
and finally stopped in 1986. Since then nothing had been known of his
whereabouts but a few years ago his son contacted the gallery to say that
Yeap was well, happily retired and living in this country. Unsold work will appear here shortly. |
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