‘Meditating bird’
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‘Meditating bird’

£700.00

Jonathan’s work is primarily in figurative or low-relief ceramics. His practice is a means of storytelling, and enjoy responding to the characters, scenarios, and hidden folklore that enrich a community. He is looking for a tipping point when making, the moment when a character becomes relatable. His recent pieces have involved figurative animal-human forms, concerned with allegory and memory. As a dedicated diary keeper, he often uses writing as a means of working through challenges, and likes the idea of his work also in this role, being a figurative other with which to have a dialogue. In this sense, he is also interested in how time becomes a hand in his work, the idea of capturing a fragile, transitory state, which may be read in the hereafter.

Materials: white stoneware, oxide and transfer; stoneware and engobe; sculpture terracotta, engobe and oxide

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Artist Bio

Following an introductory workshop with the television Spitting Image team, Jonathan Williams went on to complete a Ceramics BA from Wolverhampton in 2000. Establishing his practice, he was awarded with a scholarship from The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust and graduated with an MA from The Royal College of Art in 2014.

Since this time he has taught at St Paul’s School London, and his work has been shown in Buckingham Palace, The V&A and Fortnum and Masons. During Lockdown, he raised funds for NHS Charities, throwing one hundred porcelain tea bowls, decorated with a nightingale sprig, as part of Throw for The NHS. One of these pieces was later acquired by The Museum of London.

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