Kate Malone
Kate Olivia Malone MBE (born 29 January 1959, in London) is a British ceramic artist known for her large sculptural vessels and rich, bright glazes. Malone was previously a judge, along with Keith Brymer Jones, on BBC2's The Great Pottery Throw Down (2015–2017) , then presented by Sara Cox.[1][2]
Biography
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Malone studied at Bristol Polytechnic (1979–82)[3] and, after leaving the Royal College of Art in 1986, began working in a studio in the South Bank Craft Centre at Charing Cross.[4] Malone's work is held in the British Council collection.[5]
Her work is on display in a number of public locations, a giant ceramic fish in the water at Hackney Marshes and a large pot at Manchester Art Gallery.[6] Malone's work is also held in numerous public collections, including the Arts Council, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Crafts Council, The Ashmolean Museum, Musée national de céramique de Sèvres, Victoria & Albert Museum and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.[3] She made a large number of new works for an exhibition Inspired by Waddesdon Manor in 2016,[7] including portrait vases of Ferdinand de Rothschild and his sister Alice Charlotte von Rothschild.[8]
Malone worked with EPR Architects on a project at 24 Saville Row which gained a first place WAN Facade Award in 2015 and is a finalist in the 2016 Surface Design Awards.[9] The project involved making 10,000 hand-glazed ceramic tiles.[10]
Malone has said, "pottery is almost as good as sex – it's so physical and so… fantastic".[11][12]
She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to ceramic art.[13]
Bibliography
[edit]- With Lesley Jackson Fruits of the Earth and Sea: Ceramics by Kate Malone Manchester Art Gallery (1 April 1994) ISBN 978-0901673466
- The Allotment: New Ceramics by Kate Malone mac (Oct. 1998) ISBN 978-0953447701
- With Lesley Jackson A Book of Pots A & C Black Publishers Ltd (30 Jun. 2003) ISBN 978-0713661804
- Kate Malone Inspired by Waddesdon published by Adrian Sassoon (2016) ISBN 9780995457003
References
[edit]- ^ Wilson, Benji (7 November 2015). "Why the Great Pottery Throw Down is a Great British Knock Off". The Daily Telegraph. London. ISSN 0307-1235. OCLC 49632006. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
- ^ Denham, Jess (3 November 2015). "The Great Pottery Throw Down". The Independent. London. ISSN 0951-9467. OCLC 185201487. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
- ^ a b "A Celebration of Clay by Kate Malone at Canary Wharf – Canary Wharf Group". group.canarywharf.com. 2015. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
- ^ Cooper, Emmanuel (2010). "MaloneKateCS38.pdf" (PDF). pdf.js. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
- ^ "Kate Malone". britishcouncil.org. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
- ^ Steiner, Susie (2015). "All in a glaze". theguardian.com. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
- ^ Sassoon, Adrian (12 June 2017), Kate Malone: Inspired by Waddesdon, retrieved 30 March 2018
- ^ "Kate Malone: Inspired by Waddesdon Ceramic Review Issue 280 July/August 2016". Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- ^ "EPR Architects news". epr.co.uk. 2015. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
- ^ Maw, Francesca (2015). "WAN Façade Award 2015 by WAN AWARDS". worldarchitecturenews.com. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
- ^ Van Praagh, Anna. "Will Britain go potty for the Great British Pottery Throw Down? – Telegraph". The Daily Telegraph. London. ISSN 0307-1235. OCLC 49632006. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
- ^ Hogan, Michael (8 November 2015). "Has television become filthier than ever? – Telegraph". The Daily Telegraph. London. ISSN 0307-1235. OCLC 49632006. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
- ^ "No. 62666". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 June 2019. p. B19.
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- 1959 births
- Living people
- 20th-century English women artists
- 21st-century English women artists
- Alumni of the Royal College of Art
- Alumni of the University of the West of England, Bristol
- Artists from London
- British potters
- British women ceramicists
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- Women potters
- 20th-century ceramists
- 21st-century ceramists
- 20th-century English artists
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