Glass World

National Glass Centre

14 October 2023 – 10 March 2024

With a focus on works from our collection, the exhibitions reflect the international remit of artists working in glass and Sunderland’s role within the glass world.

In recent years National Glass Centre has developed a permanent collection of international Studio Glass that includes work by artists from or based in thirty different countries, from Sweden to New Zealand and the United States to Japan. This exhibition presents a wide selection of the works held in our collection and creates an opportunity to celebrate the international reach of artists working in glass.

Y Lle Celf - National Eisteddfod 2022

30th July - 7th August 2022

Delighted to have been selected for this years Y Lle Celf, National Eisteddfod.

Y Lle Celf is a national celebration of visual arts and architecture in Wales. The gallery houses the work of some of Wales’ leading artists, with the work selected as part of the open exhibition.

Art at Home

‘6 Days, 6 Artists.’

‘Art at Home presents ‘6 Days, 6 Artists’ – a series of creatives with mediums ranging from glasswork to textile.’

‘From 11-12 & 16-19 December we will be presenting new works by 6 different artists, four of whom are newcomers to Art at Home.’ Artists include: Effie Burns, Dale Devereux Barker, Emily Jo Gibbs, Kate Haywood, Jack Hilton and Caitlin Hinshelwood.

Eisteddfod AmGen 2021 - Y Lle Celf

National Eisteddfod of Wales - Open Exhibition

I’m delighted to have been selected for this year’s virtual Eisteddfod - Y Lle celf. I’ll be exhibiting drawings created in response to my ‘Trackways’ project, funded by the Arts Council of Wales.

‘This year saw organisers invite artists to submit their work for the exhibition, with three renowned Welsh experts sifting through the entries and choosing their favourites to be awarded a coveted place within the gallery. 

Gwenno Angharad, Aled Wyn Davies and Carwyn Evans, who between them represent a wide range of disciplines, selected the artworks before the team at 4Pi undertook the curation and interactive design of this ambitious and attractive exhibition, with an exciting fusion of emerging and established artists.

This year's artists are Manon Awst, Siân Barlow, Ann Catrin Evans, Gwen Evans, Kate Fiszman, Rhiannon Gwyn, Kate Haywood, Llio James, Karolina Jones, Rhys Bevan Jones, Roger Lougher, Karen McRobbie, John Gareth Miles and André Stitt.’

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Maker’s Eye: Stories of Craft - Crafts Council Gallery

7 July – 9 October

Crafts Council Gallery, London

‘Maker’s Eye: Stories of Craft is the first exhibition in the new Crafts Council Gallery. It celebrates the breadth, diversity and qualities of craft, and includes numerous craft objects made in the UK over the course of the last 50 years.

This exhibition was curated with 13 makers, putting their diverse views on craft and making at its centre. Each of the maker-selectors have work in the Crafts Council Collections. Together, they represent a cross-section of craft interests, disciplines, career stages and models of practice. We asked them to select up to 15 objects in response to the brief: “What does craft look like and mean to you?”.’

Arts Council Wales - Stabilisation Fund

Trackways

I’m delighted to have received funding from The Arts Council of Wales as part of their stabilisation fund.

This will allow me to begin a new period of research into the theme of Trackways, in relation to our perception of time and place.

'The eye is enticed by a path, and the mind's eye also. The imagination cannot help but pursue a line in the land - onwards in space, but also backwards in time to the histories of a route and its previous followers.' The Old ways, Robert Macfarlane, 2012

I feel a similar connection to the past, walking along these well-trodden paths, as I do when examining certain objects. Why do some paths and objects offer us these experiences? By examining this theme I hope to generate new ways of thinking and develop a greater understanding of how I read and make objects.

A Language of Clay

New Brewery Arts

1st August - 3rd October

A Language of Clay is a group show presenting the work of ceramic artists Justine Allison, Anne Gibbs, Kate Haywood, Lisa Krigel, Ingrid Murphy and Zoe Preece. Each of the artists approach the qualities of clay from varying perspectives and with differing intentions. That the practices of these six artists are richly diverse is intentional. United by a tenacious and considered approach, their works illustrate a rich spectrum of contemporary ceramic practice.

Whether motivated by function, form, social interaction or abstract concept, all the artists undertake their practices with a keen sense of materiality. There are many familiar objects and references in the show, some repurposed or reinterpreted. Commonplace objects that we might use all the time are celebrated, everyday moments are tenderly captured in ceramic form, and there are pieces that make connections across time. The exhibition includes bowls for daily use, spoons fixed in motion and streetwise dogs with a sense of home. We hope there will be aspects to engage everyone.

This exhibition develops a popular, touring initiative known as The Language of Clay; managed by Mission Gallery and in partnership with Ruthin Craft Centre, supported by Arts Council of Wales and curated by Ceri Jones.

Trading Station - Manchester Art Gallery

Trading Station: How hot drinks shape our lives

Manchester Art Gallery, 14th December 2019 - 31stth December 2021

Included in this exhibition is a commissioned piece I made in response to ‘The Mary Greg Collection’ at Manchester Art Gallery. I selected a series of Elizabethan roundels to research as a starting point for the commissioned work. Used at the end of banquets the roundels (elaborately decorated wooden plates) held sweetmeats and other sugary delicacies!

‘Exploring the changing social use of tea, coffee and hot chocolate.’

‘Hot drinks, once expensive luxuries for the few, have enriched our lives, promoted the exchange of ideas and influenced the design of our homes. The Cost of Caffeine traces the history of how these drinks arrived in the UK, revealing their global histories, connections to slavery and colonisation, and contemporary ethical issues. Spanning four centuries and ranging from silver, porcelain, glass, fashion, lighting, prints and painting, this showcase of exquisite and utilitarian objects asks probing questions and uncovers hidden histories.’

Feast, Teatime, Chinese tea bowls, Image Credit Michael Pollard, Manchester Art Gallery

Future Lights in Ceramics - Porzellanikon

Future Lights in Ceramics - The Spirit of the Bauhaus

26th October 2019 - 1st March 2020

Porzellanikon, The State Museum for Porcelain, Selb, Germany

Future Lights in Ceramics Exhibition. Paying homage to the 100 year anniversary of the Bauhaus, artists have responded to the theme ‘The Spirit of the Bauhaus’.

'Traces' Opening at Mission Gallery

21st Septemberr - 9th November

Mission Gallery Exhibition Opening: Kate Haywood in conversation with Claire Curneen

2pm Saturday 21 September 2019

‘Kate Haywood’s exquisite porcelain forms are at once assured and delicate. Made with keen attention to detail, each form is precise and elegant.

Kate has a passion for objects, sometimes hand-held objects, often objects from the past. She scours museum collections and researches archives to identify intriguing pieces and purposes. Kate’s recent work is inspired by children’s games, games from a time when they were more readily played in the street than they might be today.

Combining her ceramic sculptures with other materials adds layers of reference and appeal. Everyone will recognise different traces in her new body of work.’

Part of the Language of Clay, Curated by Ceri Jones.

Future lights at The British Ceramics Biennial

Future Lights return to The British Ceramics Biennial this year, paying homage to the 100 year anniversary of the Bauhaus, artists have responded to the theme ‘The Spirit of the Bauhaus’.

7 Sep–13 Oct 2019 / Spode China Hall

Future Lights is an annual competition platform for emerging professionals pursing a career in ceramics. Each year the Future Lights competition brings together a group of 6 new graduates living in Europe in support of cross-disciplinary learning and approaches between ceramic designers, art historians, researchers, makers and artists of the future.’

‘With an international cohort of ambassadors for ceramics the Future Lights competition reaches new audiences and continues to connect and inspire the next wave of talent coming through.’

Artists:

Alice Walton, Amy Mackle , Atis Snevelis, Chloë Dowds , Francesca Romei, Karolina Bednorz, Kate Haywood Kristina Rutar, Maria Braun, Maria Gasparian , Maria Joanna Juchnowska, Maria Punkkinen, Manos Kalamenios , Rhiannon Ewing-James , Supawan Sihapoompichit Morris, Wendy Ward, Yuka Kikumoto

'Traces' Opens at Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre

Language of Clay: Traces opens at its third venue, Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre. From Saturday 3rd August to 14th September.

Join us from 12 -2pm for the opening and an in-conversation with Alex McErlain.

‘Kate’s work may appear strangely familiar as you may sense the form of a horn drinking cup or a colour palette resonant of Elizabethan tapestries. The surfaces which her work is placed reverberate with shadows of human things. Her objects are made at the edge of her consciousness, in the place where fiction and truth collide.’  Sharon Blakey, 2018

International Ceramics Studio Kecskemét Residency Award

I’m happy to announce that I've recently been awarded the International Ceramics Studio Kecskemét Residency Award 2019 at the International Ceramics Festival, Aberystwyth. I’ll travel to Hungary next year to develop new work during a months stay at the residency Centre. Looking forward to meeting artists and exploring a new city!

Industrialised: Art in Manufacturing in the Gallery

INDUSTRIALISED, Art in Manufacturing in the Gallery, part of The National Festival of Making, opens at Blackburn Art Gallery (15th June - 15th September 2019).

‘Kate Haywood’s purposely precarious ceramic works have their material properties in the foreground, with the artist creating hung pieces comprised of impossibly linked ceramic loops and scattered, strung components isolated without any obvious, practical use, being at once foreign and yet familiar in their wall-mounted formations.’

‘Industrialised is an opportunity to recognise the powerful links between manufacturing industries and artists. Artists have continued to rely on the skills of fabricators, forgers, casters and welders to realise their creative works and place them in the public view. Artists from Lowry to Rauschenberg have been heavily inspired by the visual imagery of factories and the humanity of the industry working inside them. Industrialised is a showcase of contemporary artists and current approaches to working with, or reflecting on these same subject matters, and in this we can see a new set of social commentaries on industries deeply resonant effect on global and local politics, social structures and our environment today.’

Alex Zawadzki from The National Festival of Making and Curator of Industrialised

Language of Clay - Catalogue

The Language of Clay ‘Traces’ exhibition catalogue is available for purchase here

‘This beautiful publication accompanies the final exhibition in the second series of solo exhibitions of work by practitioners who use and express clay in very different ways.’

Language of Clay - Opening at Aberystwyth Arts Centre

‘Language of Clay - Traces’ is now open at  Aberystwyth Art Centre’s Ceramics Galleries

13th April - 9th June

‘The Language of Clay is a series of national solo touring exhibitions organised by Mission Gallery and funded by the Arts Council of Wales.’ The series are curated by Ceri Jones.

Dalloop (detail)

Photo Credit: Dewi Tannatt Lloyd

Future Lights - Munich Creative Business Week

I’m happy to be showcasing work alongside my fellow Future Lights in Ceramics peers (2016-2019)  during the  Munich Creative Business Week. 11th March - 17th March

Presented by Porzellanikon and supported by Bayern Design GmbH, at HFF München Bernd-Eichinger Platz 1, Munich.

Ceramic Review - Editor's Choice

‘Traces' Language of Clay Exhibition - Ruthin Craft Centre

Delighted to have been selected as Editor’s Choice in the current gallery pages of Ceramic Review magazine, thank you Karen!

‘The Language of Clay is an ongoing project that celebrates the diversity of accomplished ceramic practice. It presents new bodies of work by selected contemporary ceramic artists with studio practices in Wales. ‘ 

You can find out more about this project and view the exhibitions touring schedule here

Rituals - Bluecoat Display Centre

‘Rituals’ opens at the Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool. 

PV Friday 8th March 5.30-7.30

Saturday 9th March 2019 - Saturday 27th April 2019

‘A mixed media exhibition that will explore the idea of craft objects making our everyday ‘rituals’ such as drinking tea or coffee into a ceremony of sorts. Simply put as examining the objects we collect and how we use them in our everyday lives.’

Language of Clay - Opening at Ruthin Craft Centre

Kate Haywood | Traces

The latest exhibition in The Language of Clay series opens at Ruthin Craft Centre 2nd February

Curated by Ceri Jones

‘Traces is a solo exhibition by Kate Haywood and is one in the second series of national touring exhibitions known as The Language of Clay. Traces presents a new body of work that draws on a wealth of research and a memory of objects. It uses ceramic to re-imagine objects lost to the past. Yet, in the field of contemporary ceramics, Kate’s is a progressive practice that brings its own language to the wider dialogue around ceramic making and use.’

‘The Language of Clay is a National Touring exhibition series. The initiative is organised by Mission Gallery in Swansea and is delivered in partnership with Ruthin Craft Centre, Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Aberystwyth Arts Centre and Aberystwyth Ceramics Gallery. The initiative is funded by the Arts Council of Wales.’

Photo credit: Dewi Tannatt Lloyd