NIGEL LAMBERT CURRICULUM VITAE

1978-1981 Worked for the Forestry Commission.
1983-1985 Cornwall College of Further and Higher Education.
1985-1986. Worked in the Pottery of Roger Cockram in North Devon.
1987-1990 Moved to Bristol and set up first workshop.
1990 Established new workshop in Forest of Dean.
1998 Built woodfired kiln and developed new range of work.
SELECTED exhibitions
1991 New Members Show C.P.A. Contempoary Ceramics London.
1992 Mugs,Jugs,Rugs. Oxford Gallery
1993 C.P.A. Show Mid-Cornwall Gallery
1994 Easton Rooms Rye.
1996 One man show Contempoary Ceramics London.
1997 “Domistic Warehouse” Rufford Craft Centre. “The Big Breakfast” Oxford Gallery.
1997 “Time For Tea” British Council Touring exhibition to Brazil and major coffee producing countries in South America.
1998 European Slipware, Pottenbakkersmuseum, Tegelen, Netherlands.
1998 Grange Barns Gallery, Market Drayton.
1999 Brewery Arts, Cirencester. Bircham Contempoary Arts, Holt , Norfolk
2000 Firing The Imagination Ceramica Britanica, British Council Touring Exhibition.
2001 Festival Exhibition, St James Gallery Bath.
2002 Woodfired pots for the Table, Grange Barns Gallery.
2002 French-British Pottery, La Abbaye, Nanteuil-en-Vallee.
2003 Yew Tree Gallery, Paintings by Breon o Casey, pots by Nigel Lambert.
2004 Tea Total Contempoary ceramics, London
2004 Internationauy de pots utilitaires-Galerie Du Don Montsalvy. France
2005 Ceramic Art London Royal College od Art, London
2008 Twenty-twenty Much Wenlock Shropshire

1995 Designed and made a range of pots for HABITAT U.K

PUBLICATIONS

Ceramic Review May-June 1995
SLIPWARE by Michael & Victoria Eden. A&C Black.
Throwing Pots By Phill Rogers, A&C Black.
Pots in the kitchen By Josie Walter. The Crowood Press.

1986-1988 Visiting Lecturer at Cornwall College of Further and higher Education
1992 Visiting Lecturer at Bristol (U.W.E)
1992-2002 Visiting Lecturer at Royal Forest of Dean College.
2002-2003 Part time tutor at Royal Forest of Dean College.
2003-2004 Full time tutor at Royal Forest of Dean College.
2005-2007 Full time tutor Bristol School of Art

Co-Director The Grange Barns Gallery. 1999-present.

statement of work

Nigel lambert’s pots are both decorative and useful.He began his love of pottery and paintings whilst at art college in Cornwall. His interest in the work of abstract painters, particulary Roger Hilton , Terry Frost, Patrick Heron and other artists from the cornish peninsula; has influenced his work and the decorative marks he makes. His work is approached not as a painter, but as a potter.
Clay is the starting point. after the pots are thrown or pressed from flat sheets of clay, these are cut and re-formed into oval’s and square forms. They are dipped in a white clay slip, dried and then glazed, this produces a flat white surface on which the blue oxides are painted, with new and old brushes, odd bits of sponge and fingers. lines and motifs are often scratched through the blue, adding an extra depth of image.
Historic pots and potters have been a strong influence on Nigel’s approach to ceramics. From the warm colours of old french and spanish peasant ware, the fine brush work of Delft pottery; to more recent potters such as Michael Cardew, Peter Smith and American potter Jeff Oestrich.
Nigel lambert trained at cornwall college, and with Roger Cockram at his north Devon pottery.He established his first workshop in Bristol in 1987, this lasted until 1990 when he moved to the Forest of Dean, where he currently lives and works.
He has exhibited widely in England and Europe, and was elected a fellow of the Craft Potters Association in 1990.

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