GORDON BALDWIN & EWEN HENDERSON : 3 - 23 November, 2016
Gordon Baldwin & Ewen Henderson
Works from the Mike O'Connor Collection
3 - 23 November 2016
Gordon Baldwin
Anvil, 1991
earthenware, 56 x 54 x 25 cm
Ewen Henderson
Untitled, 1980s
laminated stoneware, 49 x 30 x 28 cm
Gordon Baldwin
Developed Sculptural Form, 1984
earthenware, 47 x 28 cm
Ewen Henderson
Zig-zag Folding Form, 1990s
laminated stoneware, 39 x 52 x 29 cm
Erskine, Hall & Coe are pleased to present Gordon Baldwin & Ewen Henderson, comprising 30 works by two of the most important and influential 20th century British artists working in clay.
“Gordon and Ewen are seemingly opposites, but both questioned the making of ceramics and came up with completely different answers, both equally valid and exciting.”
- Smith O’Connor
Mike O’Connor was an artist who met Baldwin at Eton College, where Baldwin taught for thirty-nine years. He encountered Henderson’s work later but became good friends of both the artist and his wife.
“On the face of it, the two ceramic artists exhibited together here could not be more different. Gordon Baldwin’s sculptural vessels, with their smooth, painterly surfaces, and considered forms, stand perfectly balanced. Although invariably asymmetrical, enquiring, the questions they explore elucidated with patches, pocks, grids and lines, they have a poised authority. Ewen Henderson’s sculptures, by contrast, seem to re-enact the drama of their making. Craggy, rough, your eye dances over their surfaces, drawn from one excitement of texture or colour to another, discovering their formal logic as you move around them. They seem to triumph in accident, just as mountains owe their magnificence to cataclysmic movements beneath the earth’s surface.”
- Emma Crichton-Miller
The exhibition is fully illustrated on the website
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