Susan Nemeth
Inlaid porcelain ceramics

ground floor 6, The Chocolate Factory, Farleigh Place, Stoke Newington, London N16 7SX
mob: 07855002678

susannemeth@talktalk.net

My porcelain ceramics are inspired by historical textiles and wallpapers. Sometimes I find my patterns in the backgrounds or details of paintings by Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, Ben Nicholson, Eva Hesse and others.
The decoration is integral. Laminated sheets of coloured clays inlaid with hand cut patterns, are beaten, rolled and stretched over moulds. (The vases are slab-built.) Forcing a form from one single flat sheet of clay ensures a simple shape.
Buried in sand to prevent warping, the pieces are fired to their limit, to achieve a smooth, matt, vitrified surface.
Born 1957 Adelaide, Australia

Training
1975 – 1978 Wolverhampton Polytechnic B.A (hons)
1973 – 1975 Bournville School of Art

Awards
1990 Inax Design Prize, Inax Corporation, Japan
1989 David Canter Memorial Fund Award
1988 Batsford Craft Award, Batsford

Books & Articles
Linda Arbuckle, 500 PLATTERS PLATES & CHARGERS Lark books 2008
Jo Connell, COLOURING CLAY A&C Black 2007
Jane Perryman, NAKED CLAY A&C Black 2004
Sasha Wardell, PORCELAIN AND BONE CHINA The Crowood Press 2004
Feature, CERAMIC REVIEW July/August2003
Mathias Ostermann, THE CERAMIC SURFACE, A&C Black 2002
Jack Doherty, PORCELAIN, A&C Black 2002
Jo Connell, THE ART OF CERAMIC DECORATION, Quatro Publishing 2002
Jane Waller, COLOUR IN CLAY, Crowood Press 1998
Caroline Whyman, PORCELAIN, Batsford 1995
Anthony Phillips, SLIPWARE, Batsford 1991
Graham Flight, CERAMICS MANUAL, Collins1990
Peter Lane, CERAMIC FORM: DESIGN AND DECORATION, Collins 1990
John Thackara, NEW BRITISH DESIGN, Thames & Hudson 1986
Video
THE DOOMSDAY PROJECT, BBC VIDEO DISC ARCHIVE 1985
CD-ROM
CERAMIC AND GLAZE LEARNING PROGRAM, University of Ulster 2006

Symposium
2009 Wroclaw, Poland - 'Porcelain, Another Way'

Teaching
2009 Inlaid coloured porcelain course, La Meridiana, Certaldo, Firenze, Italy

Selected Exhibitions
2010 Solo Exhibition, Handmade Porcelain, Affinity Fine Art, Castle Cary, Somerset
2010 Porcelain Another Way, Gallery of Glass and Ceramics, Wroclaw, Poland
2009 Porcelain Another Way, Muzeum w Walbrzychu, Poland
2009 Made it, Contemporary Ceramics, Somerset House, London
2009 Solo Exhibition, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2008 From the Same Earth, The Gallery at Bevere, Worcester
2007 Solo exhibition, Castle Gallery, Inverness, Scotland
2007 Porcelain Bowls from England, St. Joseph Galerie, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
2006 Solo exhibition, Close to Nature, Broughton Gallery, Broughton Biggar, Scotland
2006 Exhibition, The Yard, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2005 Focus, Contemporary Applied Arts, London
2005 Solo Exhibition, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2004 British Studio Ceramics and Glass, Dashwood Galleries, Calgary, Canada
2004 Coloured Porcelain, St. Joseph Galerie, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
2004 Inaugural Exhibition, Clay, Venice, Los Angeles, USA
2003 Bowls, Carlin Gallery, Paris, France
2003 SoloExhibition, Contemporary Ceramics, London, organized by the Craft Potters Association
2003 British Designers, Gumps, San Francisco, USA
2001 Transiti, Contemporary British Crafts, Transit Design, Rome, Italy
2000 Handmade British Crafts at San Francisco International Fair, San Francisco, USA
1999 New British Ceramics-Tendence, Messe Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
1998 First Design Centre Exhibition, Geffrye Museum, Hackney, London
1997 Decorated Pots; the influence of Bloomsbury and the Omega Workshop, Charleston Gallery, Firle
1997 300 Tonnes of Clay, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
1995 Contemporary Ceramics, New Ceramics Exhibition Centre, Maroussi, Greece
1994 Studio Ceramics ’94, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, organized by the CPA
1994 Ceramics by Mary Vigor and Susan Nemeth, Galerie Lot Duynstee, Maastricht, The Netherlands
1993 Susan Nemeth, Gallerie Tessel, Den Burg, The Netherlands (solo)
1992 Susan Nemeth and Jane Perryman, Keramic in Pulverterm, Oldenburg, Germany
1990 UK 90 Festival, Takashimaya Stores, Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Kyoto, Japan
1990 2nd Inax Design Prize Exhibition, Inax Corporation, Tokoname & Tokyo, Japan
1984 Susan Nemeth & Jane Waller, Sultan Gallery, Safat, Kuwait
1984 Solo Exhibition ,Hand Built Porcelain, Liberty’s, London
1982 Contemporary British Ceramics, Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA
1980 North Jersey Festival Of British Music & Arts, Westminster Gallery, Boston, USA

Collections
Bolton Museum, Bolton
City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
Ulster Museum, Belfast
University of Wales, Aberystwth