Sam Hall
Sam Hall's GalleryDate of Birth: 27 / 8 / 67
Education : 1
1985 / 87 Harrogate College of Art and Design
BTEC National Diploma Ceramics
1987 / 90 Loughborough College of Art and Design
BA Hons in Ceramics
Exhibitions:
Galleries:
1996 July Go West, Cork Street Gallery, London
1997 May Selfridges, London
1997 June Gallery 27, Cork Street, London
1997 May At the Gaolyard, St Ives, ‘A Quality of Light’
1997/8 St Ives Pottery & Gallery, Cornwall
Cecilia Colman Gallery, London
Bettles Gallery, Hampshire
Selfridges, London
Yeoward, South London
1999 Beatrice Royal Gallery, Southampton
John Davis Gallery, Stow-on-Wold
Yeoward South, London
St Ives Ceramics, Cornwall
Walker Galleries, Harrogate
Glass House Gallery, Cornwall
2000 Ceramics 2000, Walker Gallery, London
Gallery Upstairs, Henley in Arden
Yeoward South, London
Walker Galleries, Harrogate / Honiton
Milne & Möller, Affordable Art, London
2001 & 2003 Bettles Gallery, Hampshire
Olympia Art Show Milne & Möller
2003 Dundee Showcase, Dundee Contemporary Arts
Bettles Gallery, ‘Two Potters’, Hampshire
Each piece starts as a simple cylinder, then cut and altered to produce a flat-sided oval form. The blankness of form and minimal use of glaze / oxides used along with scored lines, random marks and a sombre palette hopefully help to create a tension where drawing and form cohabit together.