Inspired by her Grandmother’s Willow Pattern collection, Rhian Malin continues the long historic tradition of hand-painting porcelain with cobalt-blue decoration. Her elegant wheel-thrown porcelain vessels are the chosen surface, created to stretch this tradition into the 21st Century.
Taking a mathematical approach to applying each geometric design, each vessel is painstakingly divided up and mapped out by eye to highlight their tapering forms, resulting in a contemporary take on the much loved, and often nostalgic, combination of blue and white.
Rhian now works from her studio on the Alscot Estate in Atherstone-on-Stour, Warwickshire.
Having previously won support from the Crafts Council UK through their prestigious Hothouse Programme in 2016, she has since gone on to be awarded: Highly Commended Newcomer Award at Ceramic Art London (2018), 'Best Ceramics' at the Contemporary Craft Festival (2017), 'Best New Business' at The Great Northern Contemporary Craft Festival (2017) & Winner of Bils & Rye Emerging Potters Exhibition (2016).
Rhian Graduated from Camberwell College of Art in 2014 with a degree in BA (Hons) Three Dimensional Design.
Exhibitions
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2021 |
Focus on Ceramics, Cambridge Contemporary Art |
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2020 |
Making Histories: New Responses to the ceramics Collection, Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum, Warwickshire |
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Mixed Winter Exhibition, Cambridge Contemporary Art Gallery |
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Christmas Show, Bircham Gallery |
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2019 |
Artist In Residence at Chenggong School, Taipei, Taiwan |
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2018 |
Ceramic Art London, Central Saint Martins |
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Rhapsody in Blue, Hexagon Classic Design, London |
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2017 |
Christmas Exhibition, Calaviero Finn, London |
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Still, The Stratford Gallery, Stratford-upon-Avon |
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A Fine Line, Cambridge Contemporary Art Gallery |
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Pour Me, Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey |
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2016 |
Bils & Rye Emerging Potters Exhibition, York |
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Little Buckland Gallery Christmas Exhibition, Broadway Worcestershire |
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Bircham Gallery Christmas Exhibition, Holt, Norfolk |
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Gallery Top Christmas Exhibition, Matlock, Derbyshire |
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