Maker: Florian Gadsby

Firing with a gas kiln, Florian Gadsby creates hand thrown stoneware, functional pottery, singular objects and vessel collections. His work is characterized by simple forms, angular and architectural, in a muted palette of jade celadon and feldspar grey. This chosen palette of greys and greens is sometimes speckled with rust, interspersed with metallic blacks, whites and browns. Gadsby combines material investigation and interpretation to reflect on the shaping of object experience.
Working from his North London studio, alongside the practice of making pots, he also creates informative videos and documents his work online @floriangadsby. Sharing the techniques central to his creations, these videos discuss and delve more thoroughly into his ideas and making practice.
Gadsby undertook the DCCoI Ceramics Skills and Design Course in Thomastown, Ireland. He apprenticed to Lisa Hammond MBE from 2014 to 2017, learning to raw glaze and soda fire. A six-month apprenticeship with Ken Matsuzaki followed in Mashiko, Japan, where he trained to use a traditional kick wheel. In 2023, his book, ‘By My Hands,’ was published and coincided with an exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK.
View works by Gadsby in the group exhibition ‘Hot Water for Tea’ at Make Hauser & Wirth Somerset, 26 May - 28 July 2024.
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