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View Image Gallery Craig Underhill(Full member)

Tel: +44 (0)1384 376559   Email:   Web: www.craigunderhill.co.uk  

Current Work

A predominant influence in this work is the landscape, but not a static landscape, instead a landscape in time; where things grow, the land moves, geological deposits are built up and most importantly where humankind has intervened and our repetitive, methodic actions have left lasting visual effects on the environment.
Conversely I am also influenced by man-made environments and constructions that have been eroded or transformed through time by the natural forces of sea, wind, rain, frost or sun.

This work is about places and landscapes I has visited or travelled through, but I want to avoid extraneous descriptive detail in my work, instead things are pared down to express the spirit and essence of place and time.

Work generally available from:

Porthminster gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall
Byard Art, Cambridge
Flint Gallery, Blakeney, Norfolk
Robert Fogell Gallery, Stamford, Lincolnshire

Technical Information

All my work is slab built using a lightly grogged body. With larger pieces initial marks, textures and colours are added before the piece is assembled. When the clay is soft, textures can be made directly onto the clay surface with my hands and fingers. I aim to create depth on the surface of the pieces and do this by applying layers of engobes, slips and underglaze colours when the clay is leatherhard and then build up more layers as the clay dries. I combine this with different methods of mark making directly into the clay surface using a variety of simple tools, some of these being bits of broken stick, ends of paintbrushes and my own fingers.

The work is fired to 1140°C and more layers of engobe are applied before oxides and glossy glaze is used to highlight detail.

I make simple forms that normally have a defined back and front; this allows the surface that is my main fascination to be shown off. I tend to work with a series of similar forms and explore ideas through drawing and painting before committing myself to the ceramic pieces.

History

September 1985 - June 1987
Derbyshire College of H.E. Btec O.N.D in General Art and Design.
September 1987 - July 1989
Harrow College of H.E. Btec H.N.D in Design (Ceramics).
September 1989 - June 1990
Portsmouth Polytechnic. BA Hons in Fine Art (Ceramics) 2:1.
August 1990 - December 1990
University of Eastern Illinois. Graduate Assistantship.

Current Employment (April 1997 - Present)
Dudley College. Lecturer in Ceramics and Curriculum. Area leader for ceramics and sculpture.

Exhibition History

June 1997 - May 1998 - Tri National Exhibition. BET 4 Artists, Spirale and Axe Artists Groups. Touring Custard Factory, Birmingham. Lingen, Germany and Vitrey, Paris, France.
March 1999, March 2001 and April 2002 - Mid Art. Himley Hall, Dudley.
July 1999 - Horizons 99. Crystal Glass Centre, Stourbridge, West Midlands.
September 1999 - Joint Exhibition. Twenty Twenty Gallery, Much Wenlock, Shropshire.
November 2000 - 5 Ways in Clay. The Living Gallery, Stourbridge, West Midlands.
November 2000 - Christmas Exhibition. Torquil Gallery, Henley in Arden.

August 2001, August 2003 - Summer Ceramics. Number 9 Gallery, Birmingham.
June 2002 - 'Back to the Beach'. Rufford Craft Gallery, Nottinghamshire.
October 2003 - 'Snared'. Harbourne Gallery, Birmingham
April 2004 - 'Threads'. The Living Galery, Stourbridge.
June 2004, 2006 - 'Earth and Fire'. Rufford Craft Centre, Nottinghamshire.
September 2004 - Compliments and Contrasts. Withers Gallery, Norfolk.
September 2004 - Clay 11. Woodbury Gallery, Devon.
May 2005 - Spring Exhibition. Stour Gallery, Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire.
May 2005, 2006 - Clay Art Wales, North Wales.
August 2005, 2006 - Art in Clay. Hatfield House, Hertfordshire.
April 2006 - One man show, Artmill Gallery, Plymouth.
June 2005 - The Yard Gallery, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
August 2006 - Lines of Enquiry. Gallery Top, Derbyshire.
November 2006 - Bakers Dozen. Roundhouse Gallery, Derbyshire

Feb 07 – Landscapes in time, Lund Gallery, Yorkshire
June 07 – CPA 50 exhibition. Bevere Gallery, Worcestershire.
November 2007 - Individual Voices, Bevere Gallery, Worcester
January 2008 - One man show, Alpha House Gallery, Sherbourne, Dorset
March 2008 - Grafische Keramiek, St. Joseph Gallerie, Nederlands
July 2008 - Painted, Contemporary Ceramics, London
October 2008 - New Ceramics, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, Surrey

January 2009 - Select, Gallery Top, Derbyshire
February 2009 - Ceramic Art London, Royal College of Art, London
August 2009 - New work, SCA Gallery, Shrewsbury
October 2009 - Ceramics in the window, Eton Applied Arts, Windsor
December 2009 - Gifted 09, Wexford Arts Centre, Ireland

April 2010 - Contemporary Ceramics, Porthminster Gallery, St. Ives.
May 2011 - Atlantic Edge, Porthminster Gallery, St Ives.
July 2011 - Summer Exhibition, Stour Gallery, Shipston on Stour.
March 2012 - New Collection, Porthminster Gallery, St. Ives
Sept 2012 - In Situ, The Civic Barnsley, and then touring

Commissions and Awards

March 2006 - Arts Council grant to produce and promote a new body of work.
February 2004 - Arts Council Grant for producing promotional material and new work.
November 2003 - 3 large pieces made for the Cielo Restaurant, Birmingham.

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Ceramics by Craig Underhill at Studiopottery.co.uk -

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Ceramics by Craig Underhill at Studiopottery.co.uk - Darklandscape,red horizon. Height 18cm. 2007. Ceramics by Craig Underhill at Studiopottery.co.uk - Produced in 2007. Halfway up the hill H29cm.
Ceramics by Craig Underhill at Studiopottery.co.uk - 2012. Red Window, 24cms high Ceramics by Craig Underhill at Studiopottery.co.uk - 2009 Venice walls Height 24cm.
Ceramics by Craig Underhill at Studiopottery.co.uk - Misty Landscape. Height 21cm. 2007. Ceramics by Craig Underhill at Studiopottery.co.uk - Produced in 2007. Black vessel, red square H23cm 07.

Contact Details

Studio Address: 8 Prescot Road, Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, DY9 7LD.
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Telephone: +44 (0)1384 376559
Email:
Web-site: www.craigunderhill.co.uk

Availability: Visitors to my workshop are welcome, but please phone first.



Last Updated: 2013-02-12

Events featuring this potter

Porthminster Gallery : Eight Sides of a Teabowl
May 17, 2013 to June 29, 2013

Bevere Gallery : CERAMICS NOW
June 01, 2013 to August 31, 2013

Rufford Craft Centre : Earth and Fire 2013 at Rufford
June 21, 2013 to June 23, 2013

Art in Clay - Hatfield House : Art in Clay 2013
July 05, 2013 to July 07, 2013

Potfest in the Park : Potfest in the Park 2013
July 26, 2013 to July 28, 2013

Work styles:

Painterly
Landscape
Handbuilt
Wall Panels, Plaques
Sculptural
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