Artist: Sam Hall
Sam Hall, CORNWALL, UK
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Sam Hall was born in Shipley West Yorkshire. After initially training at Harrogate College of Art, Hall graduated in ceramics from Loughborough College of Art in 1990. Now based in Cornwall he has a studio near St.Ives.
Having exhibited extensively nationally and internationally he has gained a modest and appreciative audience over the last 30 years.
Hall’s self-referential pots and teabowls are the products of a conversation between himself and his studio. They are fragmentary documents of impulse let out into the world. Perhaps surprisingly, given this, there is a strong sense of place in his works. This is not allusion to the Cornish landscape or a specific coastline, but to the studio as the site of process. The interweaving of smooth and rough contours, of lucid and blurred textures, seem to speak of the ups and downs of process, of Hall’s “fight” – the word is written on the wall of his studio – to create. Though ceramic processes are always fraught with failure, Hall’s poetic work confirms that the kiln is, to quote Shakespeare, “a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.”
EDUCATION
1985 / 87 Harrogate College of Art and Design, BTEC National Diploma Ceramics
1987 / 90 Loughborough College of Art and Design, BA Honours Ceramics
EXHIBITIONS/ GALLERIES
1996 / 2006
Go West, Cork Street Gallery, London Selfridges, London
Olympia Art Fair/Milne & Moller
London Art fair/ Lemon Street Gallery
P&O Ferries / Elstone Hayes Associates
Cill Railiag Project, South West Ireland
Gallery The Yard, Netherlands
Frank Steyaert Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
Ceramic Art London 2006
2007 / 2012
Danish Connection, Jutland Denmark
British Potters, Kate Chertavian Fine Arts. U.S.A.
(It’s) What’s on the outside that matters? Newport Museum & Art Gallery, Wales
Lyne Strover Gallery, Cambridge
Milne and moller20/21 London
2014
Taos Clay New Mexico U.S.A.
ArthousE1 London
2015 Lyne Strover Gallery, Cambridge
2016 Lyne Strover Gallery, Cambridge
2017 The stars they are. Berg Gallery, Stockholm
2018 “Rainbows & Marble Dust” Lemon Street Gallery
2018 & 2026 “Yunomi Invitational” ClayAkar Iowa U.S.A
2019 Berg Gallery Stockholm Sweden
2019 Puls Gallery Belgium
2019 Lemon Street Gallery Cornwall UK
2020 The Table Gallery Hay on Wye UK
2021 Plumbline Gallery Cornwall UK
2023 Tathe Gallery Dundee Scotland
2025 St Ives Ceramics Cornwall UK
PUBLICATIONS
2011 Ceramics Art & Perception. September
2009 Contemporary Ceramics. Emmanuel Cooper
2007 Galleries Magazine. December
2007 Galleries Magazine, December
2006 Keramisch Magazine, Klei. November
2005 Ceramic Review Issue no 213, May/June
1999 World of Interiors. November