Jill’s ceramics are inspired by the natural world and by travel. Making processes include coiling, slabbing, sculpting, using moulds and throwing and altering. Slips and glazes are applied for colour, which she constantly experiments with. She uses a range of stoneware clays and is currently experimenting with additions of River Dart clay. She also makes some raku pottery.
Exhibitions:
2018
Tenth Solo Exhibition at Beaux Arts Bath (June 23 – Sept 1)
2016
Beaux Arts Bath, Solo exhibition
Selected for ‘Dartmoor Open’ at Green Hill Arts Centre, Moretonhampstead, Devon
2015
Yew Tree Gallery, Cornwall, solo ‘The Great Outdoors’
Nature in Art, Gloucester, residency
Devon Guild, Bovey Tracey, Devon ‘Sketchbooks’ exhibition
Talk and Demonstration Day, The Barnet Collection, London
Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
‘In Situ’, Millinery Works, Islington, London
2014
Beaux Arts, Bath, solo exhibition
Contemporary Ceramics Gallery, London
2013
Elected professional member Craft Potters Association
Elected member Devon Guild of Crafts, Bovey Tracey, Devon
Millinery Works, Islington
Red Barn Gallery, Cumbria (March 1 – April 30)
Basketry and Beyond Festival, Dartington Hall, Devon (May 17-19)
Asiatic Influences Exhibition, Dorothy Wightman Gallery, Carnforth, Lancashire. (May 4 – June 28)
Guest demonstrator at NACE Ceramics Festival, Navarrete, Rioja, Spain (July 19-21)
‘Nature’s Bounty’, Yew Tree Gallery, near St. Ives, Cornwall (September – October)
2012
Solo exhibition, Beaux Arts Bath40 x 40 x 40 exhibition, Millinery Works, Islington, London
Solo exhibition, Keio Department Store, Tokyo, Japan supported by Japan Airlines, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
New Leaf Gallery, Monmouth
Walford Mill. Dorset, Jurassic Coast Exhibition
Escuela de Arte Talavera, Spain
2011
‘Echoes’, Torre Abbey, Torquay, DevonRoger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow. ‘Inspired by Nature’
Millinery Works Gallery. Islington, London. 40 x 40 Exhibition
Art in Action, Oxford, with Nature in Art
Residency at Nature in Art, Gloucestershire
Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, ‘Plates’ exhibition
Contemporary Studio Pottery, Chagford, Devon
‘Inspire’ Xmas exhibition, Walford Mill Crafts, Dorset
2010
Solo exhibition, Beaux Arts Bath, with artist Breon O’CaseyFirst Prize winner, ‘Asobi’, Japan Society art exhibition, Embassy of Japan, London
‘Working at Leach Pottery, Cornwall, with Ryoji Koie
2009
Keio Department Store, Tokyo, Japan, 10th solo showSupported by Japan Airlines, endorsed by British Council, Tokyo
Gallery Tohka, Shizuoka, Japan, solo
Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, solo
Gaku Gallery, Tokyo
Japan Society Exhibition, Embassy of Japan, London
2008
Royal College of ArtBonhams Auction for Leach Pottery Restoration Project
Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
Teaching studio courses at Coombe Farm Studios, Devon
2007
‘Uprising’ at Yew Tree Gallery, CornwallAberystwyth Arts Centre
New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
Residency and teaching at Nature in Art, Gloucestershire
2006
Solo exhibition, Beaux Arts BathKeio Department Store, Tokyo, 9th solo show
‘Collect’ at V & A Museum
Terra Viva, France, ‘Pichets Extraordinaire’
Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2005
‘Collect’ at V & A Museum
Kamakura Kogei Gallery, Japan
Gallery St. Ives, Tokyo, with Yosei Itaka
Green Gallery, New Zealand
Rufford Ceramics Centre, Nottingham
2004
Solo exhibition, Beaux Arts Bathollect’ at V & A Museum, London
Crafts at Kenwood, London, English Heritage
‘Wild and Free’, Yew Tree Gallery, nr. St. Ives, Cornwall
Woodbury Studio Gallery, Devon
Scottish Gallery ‘Plates’
2003
Keio Department Store, Tokyo, 8th solo show. Support: British Council, JALYufuku Gallery, Tokyo and Art Salon Kogen, Nagoya
Gaku Gallery, Tokyo
Coombe Gallery, Devon, with painter Gerry Dudgeon
Ceramic Collection Aberystwyth Arts Centre purchase
2002
Solo exhibition, Beaux Arts Bath
Taurus Crafts, Gloucestershire residency
St. David’s Hall, Cardiff
New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
‘Gendai Igirisu Togei Sakkaten’ , Maruei, Nagoya, Japan
Teaching at Kingsway College, London
2001
Daiwa Foundation, London, part of Japan 2001 Festival
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales
World Ceramics Expo, South Korea
Residency, Arapahoe Community College, Colorado, USA
Browse and Darby, London
2000
Solo exhibition, Beaux Arts BathKunsthuis, Belgium
Rufford Craft Centre, Nottingham
1999
Contemporary British Ceramics, Bandol, FranceSeventh solo show, Keio Department Store, Tokyo,
supported by British Council and Japan Airlines
Participant, exhibitor in International Ceramics Workshop,
Central Academy of Arts, Beijing, China
1997
Ryubo Department Store, Okinawa
Solo exhibition, Beaux Arts Bath
1996
Primavera at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
Daiwa Foundation, London
1995
Terra Viva, France
Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
1994
Vallauris Biennale, France
Studio Ceramics ’94, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
1993 Crafts Council shops at Islington and V&A Museum
1992 Two-person show with Yosei Itaka, Liberty, London
Featured in BBC TV’s ‘Japanese Language and People’
1990 Living Earth’s Rainforest Exhibition, London Natural History Museum
Two-person show with Yosei Itaka, Ginza Matsuya, Tokyo
Commissions Include:
Ceramic bird mural, Yokohama National University, JapanSculpture for IBJ Bank, London
Pottery for Neiman Marcus Store, USA and Seibu Department Store, Japan
Sculptures for Director’s office, LTC Bank International, London
Seven vases for Hilton Hotel, Mauritius
Architectural tiles for Asada House, Tokyo
Sculptural planter for Taurus Crafts, Gloucestershire
