Gillian Lowndes
Born 1936, West Kirby, Merseyside, UK
Died 2010, London, UK
Education
1958 Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, France
1955 Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, UK
Solo Exhibitions
Gillian Lowndes, The Sunday Painter, London, UK 2016
Gillian Lowndes: Retrospective, Ruthin Craft Center, London, UK 2013
Gillian Lowndes, Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK 1994
Gillian Lowndes: New Ceramic Sculpture, Crafts Council Gallery (catalogue), London, UK 1987
Pandora, Casado Santapau Gallery, Madrid, Spain 1987
The Tail of the Dog, Crafts Council Shop at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK 1983
Gillian Lowndes, The Bristol Guild of Applied Art, Bristol, UK 1963
Pinch pots, Primavera, Sloane Street, London, UK 1962
Selected Group Exhibitions
The shape left by the body, The Sunday Painter, London, UK 2018
Daughters of Necessity: Serena Korda and Wakefield's Ceramics, The Hepworth, Wakefield, UK 2017
Markers, David Zwirner, London, UK 2017
Works in Clay: The Anthony Shaw Collection, curated by Matthew Hall, Offer Waterman & Co., London, UK 2010
Studio: Ceramicists and their Studios, Ruthin Craft Centre (catalogue), Ruthin, Denbighshire, UK 2010
The Collection with a View, The Anthony Shaw Collection, London, UK 2009
Five Lives with Clay, The Anthony Shaw Collection, London, UK 2009
Collector's Choice, The Anthony Shaw Collection, London, UK 2009
Ten Years Innit!, Barrett Marsden Gallery, London, UK 2008
Curator's Choice, The Anthony Shaw Collection, London, UK 2007
Poet's Choice, The Anthony Shaw Collection, London, UK 2006
Trustee's Choice II, The Anthony Shaw Collection, London, UK 2006
Trustee's Choice, The Anthony Shaw Collection, London, 2005
Friend's Choice, The Anthony Shaw Collection, London, 2005
Camberwell in the 1970s: Teachers and Students, curated by David Whiting, Galerie Besson, London, UK 2005
COLLECT (with Contemporary Applied Arts), Victoria and Albert Museum (catalogue), London, 2005
[Un]Homely David's Road, curated by Susan Hill, Forest Hill, London, 2005
Opening Exhibition, The Anthony Shaw Collection, London, UK 2004
Constructed Clay: Modern British Handbuilding, curated by David Whiting, Galerie Besson, London, UK, 2003
Off the Plinth. House Gallery, Camberwell, London, UK 2003
Sleepers, The Royal Cornwalll Museum, curated by Richard Slee as part of the Ceramica International Festival, Truro, UK 2002
Early Handbuilders, Paul Rice Gallery, London, UK 2002
Crossing Borders, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum (catalogue), Kristiansand, Norway, 2001
Risk Takers and Pioneers: The Martin Brothers and the Evolution of Studio Pottery curated by Francesca Vanke Centenary Gallery (catalogue), Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK 2000
Millennium Mugs, Galerie Besson, London, UK 2000
Firing Imagination: British Ceramics, curated by Janice Tchalenko, Centro Brasileiro-Britanico, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2000
Still Life, Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK 1999
Pleasures of Peace: Mid-Century Craft and Art in Britain, curated by Tanya Harrod, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich; Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton; Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, UK 1999
Harrow - The First Decade: 1963-1974, the Staff, Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne, Dorset, UK 1999
Off the Wall On the Floor, curated by Richard Slee London Institute Gallery (catalogue), London, UK 1998
Women in Europe: Ceramics, Galerie Marianne Heller, Heidelberg, Germany 1998
A View of Clay, curated by Alison Britton, Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK 1998
Gillian Lowndes and Gordon Baldwin, Lynne Strover Gallery, Fen Ditton, Cambridge, UK 1996
Soft Hot Hard: Contemporary British Ceramics, The National Museum (catalogue), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1996
Objects of Our Time, curated by Martina Margetts, Crafts Council Gallery, London, UK; Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, UK; Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, UK; Manchester City Art Gallery, UK; American Craft Museum, New York, USA 1996
Pandora's Box and the Tradition of Clay, curated by Ewen Henderson Crafts Council Gallery, (catalogue), London, UK 1995
Primavera: Pioneering Art and Design, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Paisley Museum and Art Gallery, Paisley, UK 1995
The Raw and the Cooked: New Work in Clay in Britain, curated by Alison Britton and Martina Margetts, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK; The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, UK; The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan; Musée d'Art Contemporain de Dunkerque, France 1993
Visions of Craft 1972-1993, Crafts Council Gallery, (catalogue), London, UK 1993
Arts & Crafts to Avant-Garde: Aspects of British Craft 1880 to the Present Day, Foyer Galleries, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK 1992
20th Anniversary of the Visiting Artist Programme Exhibition, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA 1992
International Invitational Exhibition of Ceramic Art, National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan 1992
Aspects of Sculpture, Galerie Marianne Heller, Sandhausen, Germany 1991
British Ceramics Now, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, USA 1991
British Ceramics Now, Bellas Artes Gallery, New York, USA 1991
Colours of the Earth: Twentieth Century British Ceramics, New Delhi, India; Varanasi, India; Calcutta, India; Mumbai, Idia; Chennai, India; Bangaluru, India; Kulala Lumper, Malaysia, 1991
Beyond the Dovetail: Craft, Skill and Imagination, curated by Peter Dormer, Crafts Council Gallery, London, UK, 1991
The Decorative Beast: The Animal Form in Art, cur. by Peter Dorme,r Crafts Council Gallery, London, UK, 1990
The Harrow Connection, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK; Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, UK; Crafts Council of Ireland Gallery, Dublin, Ireland; East Midlands Arts, UK; Crafts Council, London, UK, 1989
London Amsterdam: New Art Objects from Britain and Holland, Crafts Council Gallery, London, 1988
Craft Classics since the 1940s, Crafts Council Gallery, London, UK 1988
Potted History: A Selective Survey of the Last Twenty Years of British Ceramics, Gardner Centre Gallery, University of Sussex, selected by Tanya Harrod (catalogue)1986
International Contemporary Art Fair with the British Crafts Centre, Olympia, London, UK 1986
Three from Camberwell: Gillian Lowndes, Ewen Henderson and Colin Pearson, Amalgam Gallery, Barnes, London, UK 1985
European Ceramics and Wall Textures, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK 1985
Craft Matters: Three Attitudes to Contemporary Craft, John Hansard Gallery, The University of Southampton, in collaboration with West Surrey College of Art and Design (catalogue), Southhampton, UK1985
Eight Ceramicists, British Crafts Centre, London, UK 1984
Central Ceramics, Central School of Art and Design, London, UK 1982
British Ceramics and Textiles '81, Scharpoord Arts Centre, Knokke-Heist, Belgium 1981
Image and Idea: A View of Contemporary Ceramics in Britain, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Shepparton Arts Centre, Shepparton; Western Autralian Art Gallery, Perth; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia 1980
Ceramic Sculpture, Amalgam Gallery, London, UK 1980
Boxes in Silver, Ceramics and Wood, Casson Gallery, London, UK 1978
Contemporary Ceramics: Tableware to Sculpture, Carmel College, Wallingford, UK 1978
International Ceramics, International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy 1978
State of Clay, Sunderland Arts Centre, Sutherland; Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education, Cardiff; Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge; Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham; Walsall Museum, West Midlands; Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead; Royal College of Art, London; Crawford Centre for the Arts, University of St. Andrews; Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen; City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK 1978
Ian Auld and Gillian Lowndes, British Crafts Centre, London, UK 1977
Ian Auld and Gillian Lowndes, Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham, UK 1977
Potters at Kettle's Yard, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK 1974
British Designer Craftsmen,World Crafts Council, toured to American and Canadian venues by the Smithsonian Institution Travelling Exhibition Service (SITES) 1970
25th Anniversary Exhibition: Ceramics, Primavera, Walton Street, London, UK 1970
Primavera Craft Comprehensive One: Ceramics, Primavera, Walton Street, London, UK 1970
Five Studio Potters, Victoria and Albert Museum, London UK 1967; Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham, UK 1968; International Ceramics, Istanbul, Turkey 1966
New Faces, Primavera, Sloane Street, London, UK 1966
Ian Auld and Gillian Lowndes, Primavera, Sloane Street, London, UK 1965
Under 30s, Crafts Centre of Great Britain, London, UK 1965
British Ceramics, Sydney, Australia 1964
British Crafts, Munich, West Germany, 1964
International Ceramics, Geneva, Switzerland, 1964
Public Collections
Arts Council Collection, UK
The Anthony Shaw Collection, York Museums Trust, UK
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, UK
British Council, UK
Buckinghamshire County Museum, UK
The Camberwell Collection of Applied Arts, University of the Arts London, UK
Crafts Council, UK
CU Art Museum, University of Colorado, USA
The Fitzwilliam Museum, UK
The Hepworth Wakefield, UK
Henry Rothschild Collection, Shipley Art Gallery, UK
Ken Stradling Collection Trust, UK
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK
Landesmuseum, Germany
The Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan
Newark Museu, USA
Paisley Museum and Art Galleries, UK
Ulster Museum, UK
University of Wales, UK
Victoria and Albert Museum, UK