Exhibitions are fun to put together, you never really know until the end of the hang (and getting to know the work that you are showing) how it is going to look and where the impact will lie. This is a constant challenge – I love mixing it up a little and surprising people.
Exhibitions
Ceramic Brussels 2025, International Ceramics Fair
23rd January – 26th January 2025
With the Vernissage opening its doors tonight, JOANNA BIRD GALLERY is delighted to announce that we are exhibiting at Ceramic Brussels for the very first time. Established in 2024, Ceramic Brussels is the first international contemporary art fair dedicated exclusively to ceramics and offers a unique platform to showcase the diversity and innovation within the practice.
This year, the gallery will be showing outstanding examples of contemporary work by a selection of international artists including Emmanuel Boos, Halima Cassell, Florian Gadsby, Hanne Heuch, Hattori Makiko, Rupert Spira and Matthew Warner. Celebrated works by Studio Pottery Masters, including Norah Braden, Elizabeth Fritsch, Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie, Lucie Rie and John Ward will also be on display.
The fair will run from 22nd January – 26th January 2025 at 3 Rue Picard, Brussels 1000, Belgium.
VIP Preview and Vernissage – 22nd January 2025, 15:00 – 22:00.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Image right: Dark Windows by Elizabeth Fritsch, photo credit Alick Cotterill.
Exhibitions
Celebrating 30 Years of the Joanna Bird Gallery
13th November - 7th December 2024
Joanna Bird is delighted to present her forthcoming exhibition, Celebrating 30 Years of the Joanna Bird Gallery, which will run from 13th November to 7th December 2024 at the Chiswick gallery.
This exhibition is both a celebration of exceptional artists and a personal tribute to the creative community that has grown around the galery over the last three decades. Celebrating 30 Years brings together a cornucopia of works to celebrate the gallery’s longstanding relationships with artists including: Richard Batterham, Emmanuel Boos, Norah Braden, Karen Bunting, Michael Cardew, Halima Cassell, Carina Ciscato, Prue Cooper, Steffen Dam, Sara Dodd, Daniel Fisher, Elizabeth Fritsch, Florian Gadsby, Joseph Harrington, Akiko Hirai, Edward Hughes, Hyejeong Kim, Chris Keenan, Bernard Leach, David Leach, John Maltby, Sara Moorhouse, Michael O’Brien, Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie, William Plumptre, Judith Rowe, Lucie Rie, Annie Turner, Kaja Upelj, Edmund de Waal, Matthew Warner, Gregory Warren Wilson.
Celebrating 30 Years will offer a glimpse into the gallery’s evolving development. Drawing inspiration from her time with Michael Cardew and followed by twelve years at SOFA, USA, the gallery continues to support both emerging and established artists. Joanna has also been delighted to facilitate various commissions including Edmund de Waal’s A Sounding Line and Jacob van der Beugel‘s North Sketch Sequence at Chatsworth House. In addition, the gallery recently celebrated Emmanuel Boos as Best Artist at COLLECT 2023 and Halima Cassell’s Brookfield Properties Craft Award 2024.
Join us for a captivating talk and a special breakfast event in conversation with several artists, which will offer further insight into the breadth of artistic talent that the gallery supports. Dates to be announced.
The gallery is open 10.00am – 5.00pm, Tuesday to Saturday and by appointment.
We look forward to seeing you!
For more information, please call us on 020-8995-9960 or email info@joannabird.com
Exhibitions
Serendipity, Open House & Garden
26th June – 13th July 2024
Joanna Bird is delighted to present her latest exhibition, Serendipity, Open House & Garden open from 26th June to 13th July 2024.
Serendipity will include works by several artists: Norah Braden, Karen Bunting, Seth Cardew, Halima Cassell, Pippin Drysdale, Elizabeth Fritsch, Edward Hughes, Francis Lloyd-Jones, Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie, Lucie Rie, Rupert Spira, William Staite Murray, Louisa Taylor and Kaja Upelj
The gallery is open 10.00am – 5.00pm, Tuesday to Saturday and by appointment.
We look forward to seeing you!
For more information, please call us on 020-8995-9960 or email info@joannabird.com
Exhibitions
International Ceramic Art Fair 2024, Toronto, ON
23rd May – 2nd June 2024
This year the prestigious International Ceramic Art Fair 2024 will feature Halima Cassell, represented by Joanna Bird Gallery.
ICAF 2024 focuses on the theme of gathering to explore ways in which artworks, and clay as a medium, can bring us together to create common ground. Amid political, religious, ethnic, class, and cultural divides, gathering enables us to focus on how we are united in our humanity, highlighting shared experiences and needs. Gathering encourages listening, as we share space within the action of coming together. To gather is also to collect our resources, both internal and external, for healing and survival. We gather with emotional and spiritual intention, honoring our full capacities as beings to face the challenges and opportunities we encounter. ICAF 2024 highlights Canadian and international artists who engage clay as a medium for coming together to reassert our shared bonds with each other and the earth.
Gardiner Museum
Toronto, ON
Exhibitions
A Fine Line: Modern Makers at Pitzhanger
8th May – 4th August 2024
JOANNA BIRD is delighted to present her forthcoming exhibition, A Fine Line: Modern Makers at Pitzhanger, open from 8th May to 4th August 2024.
The exhibition will take place at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, Ealing Green, London W5 5EQ (10 minutes from the Elizabeth line).
This is a microscopic moment in time to reflect on Sir John Soane’s interests, his vision and his innovative ideas. I have chosen work that I think would amuse him, were he alive today. One of his gift s was the element of surprise: this will be the theme running through A Fine Line.
Joanna Bird
The artists are: Emmanuel Boos, Prue Cooper, Steffen Dam, Joseph Harrington, Hanne Heuch, Tom Perkins, William Plumptre, Nicholas Rena, Judith Rowe, Matthew Warner and Gregory Warren Wilson.
For more information, call us on 020-8995-9960 or email info@joannabird.com
Exhibitions
Collect 2024
Joanna Bird is delighted to be presenting a selection of compelling new work in her twentieth year of exhibiting at Collect Art Fair.
Collect is the leading international fair for contemporary craft and design, held at Somerset House, London, from 1st–3rd March 2024, with previews on 28th–29th February.
Early Bird Tickets are now available to purchase on the Crafts Council website, here.
We look forward to seeing you there!
For more information, please call us on 020-8995-9960 or email info@joannabird.com
Exhibitions
The Joy of Things to Come
Joanna Bird is delighted to present her latest exhibition, The Joy of Things to Come, open from 15th November to 15th December 2023.
Just in time for the festive season, this exhibition should whet your appetite for special presents as it shows our glorious range of beautiful tableware in ceramics and glass, as well as fine Italian linen.
These works will certainly bring joy to your lives and lift the spirits for the holiday season.
The Joy of Things to Come will include works by several artists: Dawn Bendick, Alan Caiger-Smith, Prue Cooper, Pippin Drysdale, Lobmeyr Glass, Hanne Heuch, Francis Lloyd-Jones, Tom Perkins, Judith Rowe, Anthony Scala, Pam Su, Louisa Taylor, Miranda Thomas, Matthew Warner, Gregory Warren Wilson.
Also works by past masters: Alan Caiger-Smith, Edward Hughes, William Staite Murray, Lucie Rie and Charles Vyse will be exhibited.
The gallery is open 10.00am – 5.00pm, Tuesday to Saturday and by appointment.
Evening events and talks with be held in association with the Joanna Bird Foundation. See our events page to find out more!
We look forward to seeing you!
For more information, please call us on 020-8995-9960 or email info@joannabird.com
Exhibitions
Rites of Passage 2023
Joanna Bird is delighted to present her latest exhibition, Rites of Passage, open from 8th June to 19th July 2023.
This exhibition brings critical insight into the evolution of twentieth-century ceramics from the British tradition. It centres around innovations in style and an artistic inheritance passed from master to apprentice. The incorporation of works by artists from continental Europe and Japan allows visitors to discover the diverse and intersecting influences on artistic development, and Joanna draws out the cultural lineages embedded in contemporary works through careful curation and juxtaposition with historic pieces
Rites of Passage will include works by several contemporary artists: Emmanuel Boos, Carina Cisato, Hanne Heuch, Akiko Hirai, Tom Perkins, William Plumptre, Matthew Warner and Gregory Warren Wilson. Also exhibited are works by past masters: Richard Batterham, Michael Cardew, Bernard Leach and Lucie Rie.
The gallery is open 10.00am – 5.00pm, Tuesday to Saturday and by appointment. An illustrated catalogue will also be available.
Evening events and talks with be held in association with the Joanna Bird Foundation. See our events page to find out more!
We look forward to seeing you!
For more information, please call us on 020-8995-9960 or email info@joannabird.com
Exhibitions
Collect 2023
Joanna Bird is delighted to be presenting a selection of compelling new work at Collect Art Fair.
Collect is the leading international fair for contemporary craft and design, held at Somerset House, London, from 3rd–5th March 2023, with previews on 1st–2nd March.
Early Bird Tickets are now available to purchase on the Crafts Council website, here.
We look forward to seeing you there!
For more information, please call us on 020-8995-9960 or email info@joannabird.com
Exhibitions
Point of Balance
12th October – 16th December 2022
JOANNA BIRD is delighted to present its Autumn Exhibition, Point of Balance. The Exhibition will run from 12th October – 16th December. Our Chiswick gallery open viewing days are Tuesday to Saturday, 10.00am – 5.00pm; other days by appointment. Please email info@joannabird.com or call us on 020-8995-9960 to schedule an appointment with Joanna.
Exhibitions
Steffen Dam’s solo exhibition – Come Fly with Me
13 May – 30 December 2022, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark
We are pleased to share our artist, Steffen Dam’s new solo exhibition, ‘Come Fly with Me’, is now open at the Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark from 13 May – 30 December 2022. Steffen has created a beautiful airship that takes us through the screen to his wizard’s view of the world.
Exhibitions
COLLECT – the SELECT
At our Chiswick Gallery, we have reimagined our COLLECT 2022 display at Somerset House by restaging the work of several of our celebrated artists in a more domestic setting.
‘COLLECT – the SELECT’ comprises ceramics, glass, bronze, lacquer, photography, and much more, and will run from 16th March until 12th April 2022 (Mondays to Thursdays from 10am to 5pm, and all other days by appointment), with an after-party on the final day from 12pm to 8pm. Please RSVP to attend via info@joannabird.com or +44 (0) 20 8995 9960.
Exhibiting artists include Silvia Aguirre, Svend Bayer, Dawn Bendick, Hélène Binet, Karen Bunting, Michael Cardew, Halima Cassell, Vittorio Costantini, Steffen Dam, Pippin Drysdale, Elizabeth Fritsch, Akiko Hirai, Edward Hughes, David Leach, Hattori Makiko, Jim Malone, Geoffrey Mann, William de Morgan, Nason Moretti, James Oughtibridge, Tanja Pak, Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie, Lucie Rie, Rupert Spira, Miranda Thomas, Matthew Warner, Gregory Warren Wilson, Philip Wood, and Yali Glass.
#COLLECTtheSELECT
Exhibitions, Foundation
Richard Batterham, Master Potter
“This fine documentary is a deep dive into one man’s world of making, and the philosophy behind a life in pottery. The sense of accumulation – of time, of clay, of conviction – is palpable in every shot. We also hear from the magnificent David Attenborough and master chef Nigel Slater (who begins every day with his Batterham breakfast bowl). Their voices remind us that often, the most meaningful things in life are rooted in the everyday, indeed, in the dirt beneath our feet.”
– Glenn Adamson. Senior Research Scholar, Yale Centre of British Art
Joanna Bird is honoured to present Richard Batterham, Master Potter, a film made by the Joanna Bird Foundation with filmmaker Alex J. Wright, featuring Sir David Attenborough and Nigel Slater. An edited version will be on view at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Richard Batterham: Studio Potter Exhibition opening Friday, 26th November 2021 – September 2022 in Room 146.
The life and work of Richard Batterham (1936-2021) is monumental within the world of studio ceramics. Joanna celebrates her friendship with Richard which spanned 40 years through the sharing of his life’s work. Richard remains an inspiration for us all.
For more information, please visit the V&A webite.
And more more information about the Joanna Bird Foundation, or to purchase a full length DVD of the film, please click the button below.
Exhibitions
The Garden of Earthly Delights
Joanna Bird is delighted to present her forthcoming exhibition, The Garden of Earthly Delights. For this show, Joanna has asked the participating artists to respond to the Gallery’s well established garden, designed thirty-five years ago by esteemed landscape architect Simon Irvine.
The exhibition will be on view from JULY 8th – SEPTEMBER 8th at the Joanna Bird Gallery, Chiswick, and virtually on the Joanna Bird website.
Fergus Garrett, highly esteemed Head Gardener at Great Dixter, will be giving two talks on JULY 14th at the Gallery, entitled Designing with Plants the Great Dixter Way. To buy your ticket to attend one of these lectures click on the following links for the first talk at 6:00 p.m. or the second at 7.30 p.m. We hugely appreciate Fergus giving his time to do this for us.
There will be two other evenings with our artists, one on JULY 16th with Adam Buick, and the other on the JULY 28th with Akiko Hirai and Jason Collingwood. Details to be found on the website early next week.
We do hope you come and visit the exhibition which promises to be exciting, showing exquisite work both in the garden and the Gallery.
Exhibitions
Gregory Warren Wilson interview with Joanna Bird
The Gallery has made a short interview with Gregory Warren Wilson in which he discusses his artistic process and his new mosaics for Collect 2021.
Gregory Warren Wilson is an artist, professional violinist and award-winning poet. His most recent work in glass is the culmination of twenty-five years of design. By working on multiple layers of glass set within deep frames, he enables light to interact spatially with the glass, making his work sculptural in its concerns. He balances colour in such a way that each design appears definitively resolved, while at the same time maintaining its asymmetry.
Exhibitions
‘Landscapes in porcelain’ – Pippin Drysdale in Ceramic Review
Don’t miss the feature on Pippin Drysdale in the latest Ceramic Review, Issue 303 (May/June 2020).
‘It’s when the process feels at its easiest and most natural that most of the gems emerge’
Joanna interviews Pippin on her life and work in porcelain from humble beginnings to gaining international acclaim. Since Joanna started representing Pippin in 2008, her work has been acquired by private and public collections and numerous museums, including the V&A. In 2015 Pippin was named one of Western Australia’s 15 Living Treasures and this year was awarded an Honorary Doctorate at Curtin University, Perth.
We have a selection of works on our website which you can view here and Pippin will be taking part in our upcoming online exhibtion Autoritratto in July.
Pictured: Deep Reach Pool and Wattle Tree, enquire here
Exhibitions
Art, Form and Function Talks
In association with the Joanna Bird Foundation
November 2019
For this 25th Anniversary Exhibition Joanna is hosting a selection of artist talks and poetry reading to accompany the show.
William Wilkins in conversation with Joanna Bird
An intimate talk with this distinguished British painter inspired by Venice.
Thursday 7th November 6:30pm
Amy West
Gain a fascinating insight into Venetian glass jewellery making.
Wednesday 13th November 6:30pm
Gregory Warren-Wilson
A reading of his poetry, written in the city of Venice.
Wednesday 20th November 6:30pm
Charlotte Hodes
Interactive artist’s talk by ceramicist and print maker Charlotte Hodes
Wednesday 27th November 6:30pm
RSVP is essential to all events – RSVP here
Please be aware that spaces are limited and will fill up quickly
Exhibitions
Art, Form and Function
30 October - 30 November 2019
Why should Art not stimulate us in our homes especially in our daily routines?
This 25th Anniversary exhibition is to celebrate Joanna Bird’s life as a Gallery owner exploring decorative objects and fine art over the last 30 years. The show seeks to capture an enlightened world where beautiful objects appeal and amuse – some charmingly suggest whilst others demand attention – to be handled, utilised, arranged, hung high, touched and dwelt upon.
An opportunity to absorb deeply considered objects made with integrity is a life enriching experience. These objects are at the heart of the matter, enduring beauty is never to be underestimated for the pleasure it can bestow.
Each of us has a favourite cup, plate, teapot or bowl to which our eye and hand involuntarily reach out. Just imagine if all the objects and utensils were our favourites (assuming that we had managed to jettison any with loosely sentimental value or not quite what we would have chosen ourselves) suddenly our specific living area becomes a curated space punctuated with our chosen pieces; we would be delighting in them daily and spoilt for choice.
Many years of discerning selection of objects and art has gone into the pieces chosen for this exhibition. The artists all excel in their fields. We do hope you will come and view the marvellous work on display in Art, Form and Function and consider objects which are visually compelling, made by hand and heart felt.
For the first time Joanna Bird is delighted to be showing the striking pointillist paintings by distinguished artist William Wilkins, CBE.
Come and see the elegance of Matthew Warner’s cups refreshingly researched after Josiah Wedgewood’s production in the 18th Century. Delight in the wit of Charlotte Hodes’ printed collages of fashion, decorating a coffee service and other fine platters. Feel the rough texture of LOEWE finalist Akiko Hirai’s unglazed cups and sake bottles. Witness the playfulness of Carlo Moretti’s cocktail glasses (limited editions). Relish the anticipation of a déjeuner sur l’herbe with Chiarastella Cattana’s hand woven linen napkins whilst relaxing on her jacquard blanket woven in the Dolomites. Be charmed by Marie-Rose Kahane’s delicate glass garniture composed of subtly evolving shapes; vases which will lend elegance to any table centre. Enjoy the conceptual glass by Geoffrey Mann and distinctive silver jug forms by Adi Toch. Imagine arriving at the Opera in one of Amy West’s exclusive glass necklaces created by transforming rare coloured glass into jewellery, exclusive to Murano.
To complement these artists Joanna will be showing ceramic work by Richard Batterham, Svend Bayer, Carina Ciscato, Rupert Spira, Michael Cardew, Joanna Constantinidis, Ruth Duckworth, Hyejeong Kim, Edmund de Waal and Edward Hughes. Presenting a rich gallery of Masters and Students, Designers and Craftsmen this exhibition will excite your imagination, it is not to be missed.
