Chris Keenan

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Biography
Chris Keenan

Born 1st June 1960

Chris began working with clay in his mid-thirties when he began a two year apprenticeship with Edmund de Waal. His collection includes beakers, bowls, cups, teapots, jugs and pots for flowers. Chris spent six weeks as Artist-in-Residence at the Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art in Japan working with local clays and glazes. He was invited to fire work in the salt-glaze and noborigama kilns of Tomoo Hamada.

 

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View works. Chris Keenan, C100-C105. Tenmoku and Celadon Tea Set with Red
C100-C105. Tenmoku and Celadon Tea Set with Red
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Education

1978-81   University of Hull – BA Hons. Drama
1981-82   Postgraduate acting course – London
1982-95   Worked as a professional actor in theatre and television
1995-97   Apprenticed to Edmund de Waal
1998-       Working from own studio in London

Fellow of the Craft Potters Association
Member of Contemporary Applied Arts
Chair of the Craft Pottery Charitable Trust

 

Selected Exhibitions

2022
Solo show- Beaux Arts Bath

2020
Group Show – Cambridge Contemporary Art
100 Bowls – Brook Street Pottery, Hay-on-Wy
“piccolo” – Beaux Arts, Bath

2019
‘All in the Detail’ -joint show with photographer Lucy Saggers, Lotte Inch Gallery,York
‘In the Window’ – Rowley Gallery, London

2018
‘New Ceramics’, Solo Show, Beaux Arts Bath
Mixed exhibition, Contemporary Ceramics Centre, London

2017
‘Bijou’ – Collect: Small Works, Schaller Gallery, USA
‘Pour Me’, Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey

2016
Solo Exhibition, Beaux Arts Bath
‘Houseplace’ a residency at Blackwell Arts & Crafts House, organised by Lakeland Arts and the Craft Potters Association and funded by the Headley Trust

2015
Solo Exhibition, Beaux Arts Bath
Innovations in Ceramic Art, Online Ceramics, Cambridge

2014
Vessels – Contemporary British Ceramics, Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Japan
Out of Sight – CAA, London
Craft Into Industry – CAA, London

2013
Solo Exhibition, Beaux Arts Bath
Make It Slow – part of Art Unpacked, a Chrysalis Arts project, a UK touring exhibition
British Ceramics Biennial – Spode Factory Site, Stoke-on-Trent
Cheongju Ceramic Biennale – Cheongju, Korea
Ceramics Now – Gallery at Bevere, Worcestershire

2012
Domestic Matters – CAA, London
Summertime Blues – Leach Pottery, St Ives
Focus – CAA, London
New Craftsman, St. Ives
Hay Festival with the Bowie Gallery – Herefordshire
Joze Art Fair with Zimmer Stewart Gallery– London

2011
Solo Exhibition, Beaux Arts Bath
Tablescapes – Talbot House Gallery, London
Decorex – London
Tokyo Art Fair – with Gallery St. Ives, Tokyo
Ceramic Biennial 2011, Award Exhibition, Stoke-on-Trent
Functional Pots – Oxford Ceramics, Oxford
A Day in the life of Vanguard Court – Mashiko Museum of  Ceramic Art, Japan
Collect – with Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon, London

2010
Starting Point Series II – Siobhan Davies Studios, London
Handmade – Fortnum & Mason, London
Festival Show – Bowie Gallery, Hay-on-Wye
78 Derngate, Northampton

2004, 06, 09
Solo Show, Beaux Arts Bath

2002
Solo Show – Primavera, Cambridge

2001
White Gallery, Hove

 

Awards
2006   Best in Show – Awarded by Grand Designs Magazine at Origin – The London Craft Fair
2006   Commissioned by Habitat to design an accredited range of tableware
2005   Awarded by Evening Standard Homes & Property
2005   Best Domestic Product at the Chelsea Crafts Fair
1999   Crafts Council setting-up grant

 

Public Collections
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Japan
Contemporary Art Society
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Gallery Oldham
mima, Middlesbrough
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
York Art Gallery

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