Simon Carroll (1964-2009) was a British
studio potter. Carroll has permanent collections at the
V&A museum London and
Amgueddfa Cymru.
Life
Carroll was born in Hereford and educated at Hereford College of Arts followed by UWE Bristol where he was taught by Mo Jupp and
Walter Keeler. Intrigued by the notion of touch, he became artist in residence at the
Royal National College for the Blind in the early 1990s.
A breakthrough show at
Tate St Ives
Tate St Ives is an art gallery in St Ives, Cornwall, England, exhibiting work by modern British artists with links to the St Ives area. The Tate also took over management of another museum in the town, the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture ...
, beach drawings and the Arts Foundation Prize, Carroll exhibited, lectured and demonstrated his craft from Hong Kong to the United States gaining international recognition.
Carroll considered
Picasso and
Matisse
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a drawing, draughtsman, printmaking, printmaker, and sculptur ...
important influences and for his Collins Gallery show in
Glasgow
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cited "
Staffordshire slipware,
Elizabethan ruffles, an American military jacket I saw in a book, three Mexican
sombreros and a fish".
Death
Having been diagnosed with liver cancer, Carroll focused on his drawing and died in Hereford in March 2009.
Emmanuel Cooper in his
Guardian obituary described Carroll as... “one of the more adventurous, fearless and challenging of the younger generation of potters”.
Carroll was survived by his parents and two brothers.
Permanent collections
* Victoria & Albert Museum, London
* Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
Selected exhibitions
* 2006 Tate St Ives
* 2014
Corvi-Mora
* 2014 V&A Museum
* 2015
Ruthin Craft Centre
Ruthin Craft Centre ( cy, Canolfan Grefft Rhuthun) is a craft centre in the historic, market town of Ruthin (/ˈrɪθɪn/ rith-in; pronounced Rith-een) north Wales.
Ruthin Craft Centre shows the best in national and international contemporary a ...
Publications
* 2015: Simon Carroll: Expressionist Potter • ISBN 978-1-905865-69-7
References
External links
Moira Vincentelli (Aberystwyth University School of Art) interview with Simon Carroll
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British ceramicists
2009 deaths
1964 births