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Follow on Google News | Gordon Baldwin: Objects for a LandscapeThe National Centre for Craft & Design is delighted and proud to bring to Sleaford, Lincolmshire a major exhibition of work by Lincoln born ceramicist Gordon Baldwin.
Gordon Baldwin OBE, born in 1932, is regarded as one of the most distinguished living potters in the UK and internationally. This deserved reputation has been built on his influence as both a maker and a teacher. With a career spanning over 60 years Gordon’s work demonstrates a shifting and moving in inspiration and style. As a young artist in the post war era his work broke new ground as it moved away from the usual traditional functional ceramics of the studio potters of that time to more sculptural forms, vessels that no longer relied on function, drawing influence in part from the resurgent sculptural movement in Britain in the 1950s. Over the next four decades Gordon’s work took on more abstract influences moving away from darker highly glazed vessels to the more familiar chalky white background of many of his later works which allowed for a greater degree of surface drawing, the ceramic form becoming a canvas for mark making and drawing. The exhibition explores Baldwin’s influences from music and landscape to 20th century art. It brings together over 140 works spanning 50 years of creative output, featuring works from the principle phases of his career; works from the 1980s onwards, as this is when he has produced his strongest and a small group of new works. Gordon has close ties to Lincolnshire; ‘Objects for a Landscape’ celebrates not only the achievements of one of the most important British ceramic artists of our time, but also offers a rich and exciting insight into Gordon Baldwin’s incredible career. It also offers a gathering that draws on loans from public and private collections, many of which are seldom seen. Gordon Baldwin: Objects for a Landscape is a touring exhibition organised by York Museums Trust. The exhibition is curated by Tatjana Marsden and designed by Martin Smith. A major publication edited by David Whiting has ben produced by York Museums Trust to support the exhibition. End
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