Feb 20 2025 to Feb 20 2025 6:30 p.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

Kate Malone, one of the UK’s leading ceramic artists, speaks about her relationship with clay, what it is, where it is from, why it behaves the way it does, and how we live with it from day to day. She will discuss the wonders of her wide palette of crystalline glazes and provide a brief introduction to her own work in decorative arts, public arts, and her place within her ceramic community. She will also provide a personal overview of the spectrum of ceramic artists in the UK today, including their work in decorative arts, interiors, fine art, and installations.

Image Credits:

Header and Instatory: Photo by Alun Callender

Thumbnail and Poster: Photo by William Taylor
Artist
Kate Malone
Ceramicist

Kate Malone MBE is one of Britain’s most highly regarded ceramic artists and has had an illustrious career spanning over 40 years. Her work ranges in scale from small, jewel-like pieces to largescale public art projects such as entire building facades. She trained at the Royal College of Art and her work is in over forty museum collections worldwide, including the Victoria & Albert Museum London, The Ashmolean Museum Oxford, the LACMA Los Angeles, and the Cité de la Céramique Sèvres. She has had more than twenty solo exhibitions and exhibits in international art fairs annually.

Malone has developed an unmistakable and highly regarded style, evidenced by her unique, hand-made pots and intricately ornamented artworks. Using a wide, personally developed palette of colours and sumptuous crystalline glazes, her work is inspired by the growth patterns, ripeness and ‘life force’ of nature, particularly its fruits, nuts and berries, and by her extensive travels. Clad with abundant sculptural details, her forms communicate optimism.

Malone has also spent her career pioneering sophisticated glazing techniques via research and experimentation in the chemistry of glazing. She has the largest crystal glaze archive in the UK created from her own recipes, which she uses to work on both her studio ceramics and to collaborate with prominent architects and interior designers around the world. In 2015, she worked to produce a facade with EPR architects at 24 Savile Row which gained a first place WAN Facade Award. She has also worked on inspiring public art projects in hospitals, schools, parks and libraries.

Several books have been published on Kate Malone’s work, including Force of Nature: The Art of Kate Malone (2024), A Book of Pots (2001), and Inspired by Waddesdon (2015). Her work has been featured in over thirty catalogues and other publications.

Malone was a judge on the BBC television series ‘The Great Pottery Throw Down’ for two seasons, and her work has been studied in the National Curriculum for Art for many years. She is patron of the Clay College Stoke on Trent, and Ambassador for London Potters and Museum of the Home, London. She often speaks publicly of her belief in the benefits of teaching craft skills in schools as part of a basic essential education for every child. In 2018, she co-founded a charity, Fired Up4, that aims to place soft clay into young hands across the UK, in districts of particular need. She was awarded an MBE In 2018 for her services to the field of ceramic art and strongly advocates the benefits of clay in the community in all its aspects.