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Vase I

£135.00

Honey glaze ceramic vase by Kevin Callaghan.

Music is deeply important to Callaghan’s work and life, and he has been Djing and collecting records for 25 years. While working in the studio he listens to a lot of music, everything from electronic, world music, to traditional music.

Gestural mark-making is the driving force in the pots he makes, a sense of freedom and composition is part of his mark-making processes. The energy music gives him through work and life is both personal and important. Through his interpretation of rhythm and repetitive movement, this always stems from ideas around freedom, reflection and energy, that in the physical form of contemporary pottery create these patterns and marks which show movement, spontaneity and a true sense of rhythm.

 

Materials: ceramic.

Measurements: 13 x 24cm.

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Artist Bio

Founded in 2022, Kevin Callaghan Pottery is a working studio and shop in the heart of Donegal Town — one of Ireland’s most distinctive handmade ceramics studios, where gestural earthenware pieces are made by hand, glazed with expressive bursts of colour, and shipped to homes around the world.

Kevin returned from the UK in 2022 to open KCP, bringing with him over 25 years of working with clay and a career that has taken him from Kilkenny and Cork to Glasgow, London, Paris, China, and beyond. A graduate of Crawford College of Art, he holds a Master’s from the Royal College of Art and a Master-craftsman qualification from the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland.
His work has been shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Saatchi Gallery, the London Art Fair, ZKM Museum in Karlsruhe, and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. In 2018 he represented Ireland at the Ceramic Context Biennale in Bornholm. He came home to Donegal in 2022 — and opened the doors of KCP.

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