On Pots:
I worked on the graphic side of advertising (accounts included Smirnoff and those HomePride Flour Men) until the age of 40 when I changed tack and returned to my first love – ceramics – for which I had won awards from my very earliest exhibitions while I was still training. In mid-life I reactivated that training with several world-renowned studio potters. Since then, I have worked both as a studio potter with my work primarily displayed in English galleries and as a workshop facilitator in the field of mental health.
My work is held in private collections from New York to Melbourne, is featured in galleries throughout the UK, and has been the subject of various exhibitions nationally.
For the last few years, I have been concentrating on a unique and intriguing merger of ceramics and metals, and now produce both indoor and outdoor pieces, which are frost-proof.
‘Enduring pottery is normally characterised by a simple elegance of form, a certain stillness…Bob Race’s work falls unquestionably into this category…Uncompromising, the authority and authenticity of the works is unquestionable. The feeling is almost of a religiosity.’
Past Exhibitions
Old Courtyard Gallery, Ambleside, Lake District
Seven Springs Gallery, Ashwell
Chapel Gallery, Bedford
Conservatory Gallery, Cambridge
Suisho Gallery, Cambridge
Inspires Gallery, Oxford
Byard Gallery, Cambridge
More recent exhibitions
2008: Wysing Arts: Inside Out Exhibition
2009: Wysing Arts: Generosity Is The New Political – collaboration with Luca Frei
2012: Ingoldisthorpe Hall Arts Pilgrimage
Detail of pot, showing texture and subtlety of colour
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