Fire
Glazed stoneware ceramic.
These wall mounted stoneware painting follow on from my ‘Stone’ series of smooth, thrown hollow forms. I was looking to put a bit more gesture and expression into my throwing style and to disrupt that perfect symmetry - a re-visit to my earlier practice as a painter. The glazes are painted on. I was hoping the kiln would give me unexpected melts and contaminations. The results have a kind of elemental, cosmic appearance, either interstellar or microbial in nature.
Dimensions: 11.5"W x 3"D
Material: Stoneware
Artwork ships in: 2 to 3 business days.



Fire
Artist Statement
About the Artist
Ceramic artist Nicola Tassie initially studied painting at the Central School of Art, but took up ceramics soon after completing her BA, establishing a studio in Hoxton, London, in the 1980s. Her broad-based practice spans wheel-thrown editions of functional pots and sculptural works that explore the expanding precincts of ceramic form.
Her work has been exhibited in London at the London Art Fair; Collect: International Art Fair for Modern Craft and Design; FOG Design+Art in San Francisco; and Tremenheere Sculpture Park, Cornwall. She was selected for the Crafts Council’s A Future Made programme and exhibited during Miami Design Week (2016), and she is now represented in the United States by Hostler Burrows.
NICOLA TASSIE
Awards Award 2023 British Ceramics Biennial Short List.
Recent/Selected Exhibitions
2025 ‘Creatures’, 8Holland Street, London
2024 ‘Nature Imagined’, The Object Space, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
‘At Last it came into Focus’, Warbling Collective, London
Light Sculptures, 8 Holland Street, London
Collect 24 with Jagged Art at Sommerset House, London
2023 ‘Award’ British Ceramics Biannual 2023, Stoke on Trent,
‘Strange Friends’ – Make Hauser & Wirth, London
Hospital Rooms Art auction – Bonhams, London.
Collect 23 with Jagged Art at Sommerset House, London.
Abstract Colour, Marlborough Gallery, London
The London Art Fair 2023 – Cross Lane Projects, London
2022 ‘Grounding’ - Jagged Art, London
‘4’ - Cross Lane Projects, Kendal, Cumbria
2021 Nicola Tassie Ceramics and John McLean Prints – The Fine Arts Society, London
The London Art Fair – London
‘SLIP AND STASIS’ solo exhibition, Standpoint Gallery, London
‘Sweet Dreams’ The Fine Art Society, London
2020 ‘Dirty Hands and Revelations – The Great Oxygenation Event’ RCA at Standpoint Gallery, London
‘Sculptural meets Functional’ – Maud and Mabel Gallery, London
2019 ‘New Artists- Group Exhibition’, Hostler Burrows, New York
The Wells Art Contemporary 2019, Wells Cathedral, Somerset
‘Collecting Craft’, The Holburne Museum, Bath Somerset
Collect 19 at Saatchi Gallery, London
2018 Leveling Traditions, Make Hauser & Wirth, Somerset
‘Perspective’, Petronilla Silver, London
2017 Paris Design week, Margaret Howell, Paris
Tremenheere Sculpture Park, Penzance, Cornwall
Collect 17 at Saatchi Gallery, London
FOG Design and Art Fair, San Francisco, USA
2016 ‘ING Discerning Eye Exhibition’, Mall Galleries, London
‘The Miami Edit’ – Crafts Council at the One Hotel, Miami Beach, Miami, Florida.
‘The White Show’ - Clotworthy House & Antrim Castle Gardens, Antrim, Northern Ireland
Publications
2022 Financial Times, HTSI magazine, Double Act- ‘We speak the same language’ by Victoria Woodcock, May 14th
Corridor 8 – 06.06.22, ‘4 Cross Lane Projects’ Review by Sam Pickett
8 Holland Street – No 13 Nicola Tassie, Stories, Jan 2022
2017 Urban Potters: Makers in the City by Kate Treggiden, published by Ludion
Milk Magazine, Sept/Oct/Nov 2017 issue, text by Julie Boucherat
2016 Imperfect Perfect by Karen McCartney, Sharyn Cairns and Glen Proebstel, published by Murdoch Books
2015 -14.12.15 The Spaces -digital VF publication -DESIGN -Tactile design: why we like things a little rough around the edges by
Kate Treggiden
2015 Country Living Modern Rustic issue 4, text by Caroline Atkins
2015 Makers of East London, published by Hoxton Mini Press
2006/8/12 The Ceramics Book - an A-Z guide to 300 ceramic artists, published by Ceramic Review Publishing Ltd
2005 Points of View, by Geoffrey Quilley, Standpoint, London / Ceramics: Art and Perception International, issue60
1999 Painted Ceramics; colour and imagery on clay, by Brenda Pegrum, published by Crowood Press
1992 Freeing the Spirit, Crafts Magazine, May/June
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