Fire

$2,635.00
Exhibition Submission Statement

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

Nicola Tassie, 2025
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Artist Statement

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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.

Artist cv

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


Web Presence

http://www.moderncraftworkshop.com/category/clay/page/2/