STEVE BUCK
Kingsgate Workshops
110-116 Kingsgate Road
London NW6 2JG
M: 0771 258 0725
E: stevebucklondon@gmail.com
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 ‘Parallel Worlds’ National Centre for Craft and Design, Lincolnshire
2001 ‘Not awake, not asleep’ Kingsgate Gallery, London
1991 Commissioned exhibition to open The Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
Previewed at the Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
1989 Michaelson & Orient, London : Portobello Contemporary Art Festival
1987 Anatol Orient, Portobello Road, London
1986 Anatol Orient, Covent Garden, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 National Eisteddfod, National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff
2014 Showcase, Contemporary Applied Arts at Freshfields
2013 Focus, Contemporary Applied Arts, Southwark Street
‘Sculptural Ceramics’, Pangolin Gallery, London
2012 ‘Tradition and Innovation: Five Decades of Harrow Ceramics’, C.A.A.
2008 ‘New Research’ London Gallery West
2005 ArtSway Open
3rd Ceramic Biennale, WOCEF, Korea
2004 International Academy of Ceramics, Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland
2004 International Academy of Ceramics Members’ Exhibition, Cebiko, Icheon, Korea
2002 International Academy of Ceramics Members' Exhibition, Athens
1999 The Studio Pottery Collection, Cleveland Crafts Centre, Middlesborough
1996 10th.Anniversary Exhibition, Scottish Gallery
‘The Crafts Council Collection: New for the Nineties’ Shipley Art Gallery
1995 Kingsgate Gallery, London: ‘On the Shelf’
INAX Design Prize Winners Exhibition, Tokyo
1994 Designer-Maker Network of Northeast: ‘Undercurrents’
1993 Crafts Council: ‘Visions of Craft’
1992 Royal Festival Hall: ‘Arts and Crafts to Avant-garde’
1991 Crafts Council: ‘Beyond the Dovetail’
1990 Mitzukoshi Department Store, Tokyo : ‘ The Great British Design Exhibition’
Bergen and tour to Trondheim and Oslo: ‘British Ceramics in Norway’
1989 Galerie fur Englische Keramik, Sandhausen,Germany: ‘Change and Metaphor’
Northern Centre for Contemporary Art ( and tour ) :‘The Harrow Connection’
‘Unilever Recent Acquisitions’ : Unilever House, London
1988 Anatol Orient , London: ‘Six Ways’
COLLECTIONS
Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland
Benaki Museum, Athens
Crafts Council, U.K.
INAX Tile Corporation, Japan
MIMA
National Museum of Wales
Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim, Norway
Unilever plc, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
World Ceramic Exposition Foundation, Icheon, Korea
York Art Gallery
EDUCATION
1981 Harrow Studio Pottery Course ( now University of Westminster )
AWARDS
1989 Unilever Portobello Prize
INAX Design Prize
RESIDENCIES
1989 INAX, Tokoname, Japan
2008 Fuping Art Village, Shanxi, China
RELEVANT TEACHING
1996 - 2012 Lecturer and (subsequently) Course Leader Ceramics B.A.,
University of Westminster
BIBLIOGRAPHY
‘Making and Drawing’, Bloomsbury, 2012
‘Tradition and Innovation : Five Decades of Harrow Ceramics’ Exhibition catalogue, 2012
‘Parallel Worlds’, Essay by Tessa Peters, The Hub 2009
‘New Research’, University of Westminster, London Gallery West, 2008
World Ceramic Biennale 2005, World Ceramic Exposition Foundation, Korea
Exhibition catalogue, IAC’s Members’ exhibition, Korea, 2004
Ceramics:Art & Perception’Steve Buck:Hollow Forms & Inner Space’, John Houston, June 2003
IAC's Fiftieth Anniversary Catalogue (Hellenic Ministry of Culture) 2002
Crafts, ‘Not awake, not asleep’ exhibition review by David Whiting, Nov./Dec. 2001
‘Not awake, not asleep’ - Exhibition catalogue with essay by John Houston, 2001
Ceramic Review, ‘Points of Departure’, feature article by Tessa Peters, July/Aug. 2001
The Artist Potter, Garth Clarke, Phaidon, 1995
Studio Pottery, Oliver Watson, Phaidon, 1994
Crafts, exhibition review by John Houston, July/August 1991
‘Steve Buck: New Sculpture’ - Exhibition catalogue with essay by Marina Vaizey,1991
‘The Harrow Connection,’ exhibition catalogue (Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, 1989 )
Crafts, exhibition review by Marina Vaizey, Sept./Oct. 1989
Crafts, feature article by Tanya Harrod, July/August 1988