Chris Keenan
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7-12 celadon and grey beakers £300.00 -
1-6 Tenmoku and celadon beakers with geometric relief £300.00
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21-22 Pair of Celadon Cloud dishes with deeper celadon 'script'£125.00
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23-28 Celadon tea set with grey band and celadon circles – teapot, 4 cups and tray£600.00
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35. Celadon caddy with reddish reeds and (4000-year-old) bog oak fastening Sold
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41 Tenmoku and red lidded jar£175.00
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43-44 Celadon lidded jars with red ‘vista’ Sold
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45-49 celadon and tenmoku bud pots with tenmoku spots
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50-54 Celadon bud pots with vertical grey bands
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55-59 Tenmoku and celadon bud pots with soft grey sky
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60 celadon and tenmoku ‘cloud’ vessel£500.00
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61 Celadon and tenmoku ‘cloud’ vessel£500.00
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63 Tenmoku and celadon ‘cloud’ vessel Sold
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66 Multi Striped Bottle£175.00
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69-70 A Pair of greenish striped bottles£250.00
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72 Multi-striped globe vase £150.00
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73 Celadon and red globe vase£95.00
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74 Celadon and red globe vase £275.00
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75 celadon globe vase w deeper celadon ‘script’£300.00
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76 celadon globe vase with incised decoration£275.00
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76 celadon globe vase with incised decoration (duplicate)£275.00
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78 Celadon ‘egg’ vase with incised decoration£325.00
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79 celadon and tenmoku ‘egg’ vase with porcelain script£300.00
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81 celadon bowl with paler celadon sky£250.00
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80 celadon ‘egg’ vase with incised wave decoration£325.00
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84 Multi-striped and tenmoku bowl£250.00
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83 Tenmoku and celadon bowl£375.00
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85 mottled red and tenmoku bowl Sold
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86 mottled red and tenmoku bowl£500.00
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87-90 celadon ‘pot-4-a-pint…ish’ beaker
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92 Celadon and red rocking bowl£110.00
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91 Celadon and red rocking bowl£110.00
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93 Multi-striped and tenmoku rocking bowl£110.00
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94 Multi-striped and tenmoku rocking bowl £110.00
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97-99 Trio of tenmoku and celadon rocking bowls with red teardrop£450.00
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95-96 A pair of celadon rocking bowls with deeper celadon ‘script’£200.00
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Tenmoku and Celadon- Cloud Vases with Bowl
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C100-C105. Tenmoku and Celadon Tea Set with Red £700.00
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C52 & C53. Pair of Celadon and Tenmoku Bottles £300.00
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13 - 18 Celadon cloud cup Sold
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19-20 A Pair of mottled red ‘cloud’ dishes Sold
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29-34 Celadon tea set with grey band and celadon circles – teapot, 4 cups and tray Sold
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37-39 Celadon lidded jars with reddish reeds Sold
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36. Celadon caddy with reddish reeds and (4000-year-old) bog oak fastening Sold
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40 Stripey red lidded jar Sold
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62 Tenmoku and celadon ‘cloud’ vessel Sold
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64-65 Pair of mottled red and tenmoku ‘cloud’ vessels Sold
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67 Mottled tenmoku and red bottle Sold
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68 Mottled tenmoku and red bottle Sold
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71 Multi-striped globe vase Sold
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82 tenmoku and celadon bowl with soft red sky Sold
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77 Tiny double celadon bottle Sold
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.
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