Gail Altschuler
Ceramics, Painting
About Gail
Sketchbooks filled with observations of life around me, friends and family, museums and galleries, inform my making process. I create on canvas and clay blurring the lines between art and craft.
The porcelain and stoneware clays etched into and drawn lines are filled with underglaze colours, then they are high fired in an electric kiln.
'This is primitive and sophisticated all at the same time' an insightful comment on my Instagram account.
Email | gail@gailaltschuler.com
Website | gailaltschuler.com
Tel | +44 7884 011 887
Shop | gailaltschuler.com/shop
My Work
Contemporary artist, painter, potter and art teacher. Blurring the lines between art and craft.
When I'm not printing onto porcelain, clay or canvas or teaching art and ceramic classes, you'll find me out at museums with my sketchbook. I am inspired by music, cultural patterns and art history stories. My work is inspired by observing nature, people, art history and patterns, recording these observations and using them as starting off points for paintings and ceramics. I teach from my home studio in Finchley Central and on Zoom, to adults, teens and children.
London Potters Newsletter Editor.
PGCE and MA in Art and Design Education, UCL. BA in Fine Art and History of Art and a Diploma in Art and Design, from The Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.
Publications
2020 www.artuk.org
2017 www.londonart.co.uk
1997 Risk Magazine, London. Front cover, February issue.
Exhibitions
- 2021 Exhibiting porcelain vessels and plates at Silson Contemporary Art in Harrogate October 2021
- 2021 Shortlisted for the RA summer Exhibition to be held in the Autumn 2021
- 2021 Exhibited at Highgate Contemporary Art with the 'Form' exhibition July 2021
- 2021 Selected for the 'Figurative Art Now' on line exhibition run by The Mall Galleries
- 2021 Cambridge Contemporary Craft
- 2020 Twenty-Twenty Gallery, Much Wenlock
- 2019 May, Kind of Blue, Barbican Library, London
- 2019 March, Primavera, East Finchley Open at Barbican Library, London
- 2018 London Potters In Design @ Battersea, Battersea Power Station, London
- 2018 Torso Vases at Chalice Gallery, London
- 2018 East Finchley Open House and Studios
- 2018 Fillingdon Fine Art, High Wycombe
- 2018 Twenty-Twenty Gallery, Much Wenlock
- 2017 London Potters Annual Members’ Exhibition, Morley Gallery, London
- 2017 Magpie, Farnham, Surrey
- 2017 East Finchley Open Houses and Studios
- 2016 London Potters Annual Members’ Exhibition, Morley Gallery, London
- 2016 Kunsthuis Gallery, York
- 2016 East Finchley Open Houses and Studios
- 2016 EFO artists group, Hornsey Library, London
- 2015 EFO artists group, Hornsey Library, London
- 2014 The Art Circle, Lauderdale House, London
- 2012 NNLS exhibition, East End Road. London
- 2010 Solo exhibition, Lauderdale House, London
- 1999 New Hall College Cambridge
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