Kate Olivia Malone (born 29 January 1959, in London) is a British ceramic artist known for her large sculptural vessels and rich, bright glazes. Malone is a judge, along with
Keith Brymer Jones, on
BBC2
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's ''
The Great Pottery Throw Down'' presented by
Sara Cox
Sara Joanne Cyzer (née Cox; born 13 December 1974) is an English broadcaster. She presented ''Radio 1 Breakfast'' on BBC Radio 1 from 3 April 2000 until 19 December 2003. Since January 2019 she now hosts the BBC Radio 2 drivetime show, Monday ...
.
Biography
Malone studied at
Bristol Polytechnic
The University of the West of England (also known as UWE Bristol) is a public research university, located in and around Bristol, England.
The institution was know as the Bristol Polytechnic in 1970; it received university status in 1992 and ...
(1979–82)
and, after leaving the
Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It offe ...
in 1986, began working in a studio in the South Bank Craft Centre at
Charing Cross
Charing Cross ( ) is a junction in Westminster, London, England, where six routes meet. Clockwise from north these are: the east side of Trafalgar Square leading to St Martin's Place and then Charing Cross Road; the Strand leading to the City; ...
.
Malone's work is held in the
British Council
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collection.
Her work is on display in a number of public locations, a giant ceramic fish in the water at
Hackney Marshes and a large pot at
Manchester Art Gallery
Manchester Art Gallery, formerly Manchester City Art Gallery, is a publicly owned art museum on Mosley Street in Manchester city centre. The main gallery premises were built for a learned society in 1823 and today its collection occupies three c ...
. Malone's work is also held in numerous public collections, including the
Arts Council,
Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery is a large museum and art gallery in Bristol, England. The museum is situated in Clifton, about from the city centre. As part of Bristol Culture it is run by the Bristol City Council with no entrance fee. It holds ...
,
Crafts Council
The Crafts Council is the national development agency for contemporary craft in the United Kingdom, and is funded by Arts Council England.
History
The Crafts Advisory Committee was formed in 1971 to advise the Minister for the Arts, David Eccles ...
,
The Ashmolean Museum
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology () on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is Britain's first public museum. Its first building was erected in 1678–1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities that Elias Ashmole gave to the University of O ...
,
Musée national de céramique de Sèvres,
Victoria & Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...
and
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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.
She made a large number of new works for an exhibition ''Inspired by
Waddesdon Manor
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'' in 2016, including portrait vases of
Ferdinand de Rothschild
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and his sister
Alice Charlotte von Rothschild
Alice Charlotte von Rothschild (17 February 1847 – 3 May 1922), otherwise referred to as 'Miss Alice', was a socialite and member of the Rothschild banking family of Austria. Born in Frankfurt, she was the eighth and youngest child of Anselm ...
.
Malone worked with
EPR Architects
EPR Architects is a London-based architectural practice that originally started business under the names of its founders Elsom Pack & Roberts. It is known for commercial, residential and hotel projects.
Cecil Elsom CBE (17 January 1912 – 3 Apr ...
on a project at 24
Saville Row
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which gained a first place WAN Facade Award in 2015 and is a finalist in the 2016 Surface Design Awards. The project involved making 10,000 hand-glazed ceramic tiles.
Malone has said, "pottery is almost as good as sex – it's so physical and so… fantastic".
She was appointed
Member of the Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations,
and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
(MBE) in the
2019 Birthday Honours
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for services to ceramic art.
Bibliography
* With Lesley Jackson ''Fruits of the Earth and Sea: Ceramics by Kate Malone'' Manchester Art Gallery (1 April 1994)
* The Allotment: ''New Ceramics by Kate Malone'' mac (Oct. 1998)
* With Lesley Jackson ''A Book of Pots'' A & C Black Publishers Ltd (30 Jun. 2003)
*''Kate Malone Inspired by Waddesdon'' published by
Adrian Sassoon
Adrian Sassoon (born February 1961) is an English art dealer, art collector and writer. He was schooled at Eton College, where he was taught ceramics by Gordon Baldwin; he went on to study further at Christie’s Education. He worked as an as ...
(2016)
References
External links
official website
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1959 births
Living people
20th-century English women artists
21st-century English women artists
Alumni of the Royal College of Art
Alumni of the University of the West of England, Bristol
Artists from London
British potters
British women ceramicists
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Women potters