Jim Malone Ash-Glazed Stoneware Bowl and Vase
Bought from 'Amalgam' Gallery, Barnes May 1993.
Jim Malone was born in 1946 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. He took a three-year teachers training course in North Wales and then studied ceramics at Camberwell School of Arts. He emerged with a first class honours degree and he then spent a summer at Winchcombe Pottery studying under Ray Finch.
He opened his first studio in 1976 at Llandegla near Wrexham, North Wales, where he stayed for six years. He was artist in residence at Cardiff College of Art in 1980 before moving to Cumbria in 1982 to teach at the Cumbria College of Art in Carlisle with Mike Dodd. In 1984 he set up a new studio at Ainstable, Cumbria, where he stayed until 2002. He then moved to Burnby near York where he stayed until 2006 when he moved again to set up his present studio at Lessonhall, Cumbria.
Jim is a potter of considerable importance and a genuine individualist. He has said of his work "I am not affected by current 'trends' and I avoid gimmicks. I have never felt the need to spread myself any wider, only to delve deeper".
Jim Malone has exhibited widely in this country as well as America, Germany and Hong Kong. He is included in the British Craft Council's index of selected craftsmen and is a Fellow of the Craftsman Potters Association of Great Britain. Malone's work is held in important British collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Museum and Art Gallery collections at Bolton, York, Liverpool, Paisley and Glasgow as well as in the Crafts Council Collection and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Jim Malone Ash-Glazed Stoneware Bowl and Vase
Bought from 'Amalgam' Gallery, Barnes May 1993.
Jim Malone was born in 1946 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. He took a three-year teachers training course in North Wales and then studied ceramics at Camberwell School of Arts. He emerged with a first class honours degree and he then spent a summer at Winchcombe Pottery studying under Ray Finch.
He opened his first studio in 1976 at Llandegla near Wrexham, North Wales, where he stayed for six years. He was artist in residence at Cardiff College of Art in 1980 before moving to Cumbria in 1982 to teach at the Cumbria College of Art in Carlisle with Mike Dodd. In 1984 he set up a new studio at Ainstable, Cumbria, where he stayed until 2002. He then moved to Burnby near York where he stayed until 2006 when he moved again to set up his present studio at Lessonhall, Cumbria.
Jim is a potter of considerable importance and a genuine individualist. He has said of his work "I am not affected by current 'trends' and I avoid gimmicks. I have never felt the need to spread myself any wider, only to delve deeper".
Jim Malone has exhibited widely in this country as well as America, Germany and Hong Kong. He is included in the British Craft Council's index of selected craftsmen and is a Fellow of the Craftsman Potters Association of Great Britain. Malone's work is held in important British collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Museum and Art Gallery collections at Bolton, York, Liverpool, Paisley and Glasgow as well as in the Crafts Council Collection and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.