Simon Kidd – Murlach 27 April – 20 May 2021

Erskine, Hall & Coe present Murlach, the latest exhibition of new works by Simon Kidd.

Murlach Bay, in County Antrim Northern Ireland, is a place that Simon Kidd has visited regularly from early childhood. The bay became a catalyst for contemplation and the source of inspiration for this exhibition of new work. Kidd’s response to the landscape is reflected in the work – he brings “the place into the piece”.

The beauty of the Irish landscape has been a lodestone for Simon Kidd’s work from the beginning. He recently wrote that his work “is a response to Northern Ireland as a country in terms of both the civilisation as well as the physical land it encompasses. It is a reflection and a response of the physical, historic, and symbolic.

Erskine, Hall & Coe
15, The Royal Arcade
W1S 4SP
Tel: 0207 491 1706

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Small Works, Great Artists 19 March – 6 April 2021

Erskine, Hall & Coe are delighted to present their third annual Small Works, Great Artists exhibition.  The show represents exceptional British and international talent with works dating from the 20th century to the present day.

Highlights include an emerald green bowl with manganese-glazed rim by Lucie Rie, alongside works by Jennifer Lee that were thrown in Japan and London.  An exceptional collection of tea bowls by Machiko Ogawa and Ryoji Koie are complimented by Tokkuri and Guinomi sets by Yasuhisa Kohyama.  A special bowl by Gwyn Hanssen Pigott that featured in her solo show at Galerie Besson in 1992 is also on display.

The exhibition encompasses over 60 works by 23 artists.

Gordon Baldwin
Karen Bennicke
Claudi Casanovas
Joanna Constantinidis
Sara Flynn
Elizabeth Fritsch
Ian Godfrey
Gwyn Hanssen Pigott
Ewen Henderson
Eriko Inazaki
Shoji Kamoda
Jacques Kaufmann
Yasuhisa Kohyama
Ryoji Koie
Beate Kuhn
Jennifer Lee
Shozo Michikawa
Machiko Ogawa
Lucie Rie
Tatsuzo Shimaoka
Shiro Tsujimura
John Ward
Masamichi Yoshikawa

Erskine, Hall & Coe
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W1S 4SP
Tel: 0207 491 1706

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Ewen Henderson 27^th February – 6^th March

Erskine. Hall & Coe are delighted to present an online-only exhibition of six beautiful works by acclaimed British artist, Ewen Henderson.

Born in Staffordshire in 1934, Henderson first encountered clay at age 30, and then went on to study under Lucie Rie and Hans Coper at Camberwell School of Art in London.  He combined a passion for painting with the freedom of hand-building clay, resulting in works that he considered as drawings in three dimensions.  Ancient cultures, geological forms and landscapes were among the greatest influences on his art, which is viewable in many notable collections such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Kyoto Museum of Modern Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.  Henderson’s ceramics were also featured within a major exhibition in 2019 by fashion house, Loewe in Miami.

“My present work is obsessed with edges, points of change, endings.  It explores the significance of what is broken, torn or cut…every beginning has an infinite number of endings, and more excitingly, every ending has a number of new beginnings.”

Ewen Henderson

Erskine, Hall & Coe
15, The Royal Arcade
W1S 4SP
Tel: 0207 491 1706

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Shozo Michikawa – New Works – Online Exhibition 29 January – 5 February 2021

Erskine, Hall & Coe are delighted to present a week-long, online exhibition of five new works by Shozo Michikawa to coincide with the artist’s birthday on the 29th of January.

Shozo Michikawa and Yuki Tsuji collaborated together at the end of last year in Sasama, Japan, bringing together the ceramics of Michikawa with the ikebana artistry of Tsuji.  Photography of this collaboration is included within the exhibition.

Michikawa has said of Tsuji, “He studied the traditional way for ikebana but he made new styles by himself, artistic, innovative, strong…. I feel the same is true for my works. I did not change my work but it was a good combination to work with him.”

Tsuji has said of Michikawa’s work, “It was my privilege working with Shozo-san. In general, neither pottery nor Ikebana, the art which I represent, gets focused in the process of making. However, our collaboration was about the process and capturing of the living moment. I believe we share a mutual passion in presenting new aspects of Japanese artisan and finesse. I look forward to our next project together.”

The five pieces in the exhibition were made at the end of 2020 from either Shigaraki clay or clays from Seto and Mino that Michikawa mixed himself.

‘Iron Matte Glaze with Natural Ash, Sculptural Form,’ illustrated on the right (SHM-0291), features unusual green tones along its black surface. These tones are the result of pine ash reacting to the glaze in the Anagama kiln. Michikawa calls this colour ‘miracle green.’ It is the fortuitous result of the interaction between the glaze and the firing process. It cannot be controlled or predicted and is incredibly rare.

Erskine, Hall & Coe
15, The Royal Arcade
W1S 4SP
Tel: 0207 491 1706
www.erskinehallcoe.com