Walter Keeler

Walter Keeler (b. 1937) is a maker of functional pottery in salt-glazed stoneware and earthenware, producing work of a highly individual character. His pottery is influenced by early Staffordshire Creamware, and over the years his work has become widely recognised and sought after.

Keeler trained under Michael Casson at Harrow School of Art from 1958 to 1963, before the Studio Pottery Course was established. He has worked from his current private studio since 1976 and is considered one of the most important and influential British potters of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

From 1994 to 2002, Keeler served as Professor at the University of the West of England, Bristol. His work is held in major public collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; the City Museum, Stoke-on-Trent; the Crafts Council Collection; the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; the National Museum of Sweden, Stockholm; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA; and the National Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan.