Sam Hall
Sam Hall is originally from West Yorkshire and now lives and works in Hayle, Cornwall. He has been making pots since 1995 and exhibits across the UK, Europe, and the USA. Trained as a potter with a degree in Ceramics from Loughborough University, he brings a deeply involved and descriptive quality to his work.
Sam begins by throwing forms on the wheel, then alters and shapes them into more sculptural pieces. He intervenes with decoration to create highly individual works, often with multiple firings. His glazes are applied in a fluid, abstract, impressionistic style; the vessels act as a canvas for subtle colours on backgrounds of flat blacks, lighter greys, and whites. Some pieces bear poured glaze marks for texture, while others incorporate modified Egyptian paste and found fragments of copper slag from the local copper industry around Hayle.
Sam has said of these pots:
“History is playing large in these pieces; the 50,000 year history of the pot, the 7,000 year history of glaze and the 350 year history of a local industry…all fired in a 20th Century electric kiln.”
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Flat Form No: 3
£480.00 -
Flat Form No: 4
£480.00 -
Flat Form No: 6
£650.00 -
Flat Form No: 9
£650.00 -
Flat Form No: 10
£2,200.00 -
Flat Form No: 28
£950.00 -
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Tea Bowl
£200.00 -
Tea Bowl
£180.00 -
Tea Bowl
£180.00 -
Tea Bowl
£180.00 -
Tea Bowl
£180.00 -
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Tea Bowl
£200.00 -
Tea Bowl
£200.00 -
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Flat Form No: 26
£480.00
Exhibitions / Galleries
1996 – 2006
Go West, Cork Street Gallery, London
Selfridges, London
Olympia Art Fair / Milne & Moller
London Art Fair / Lemon Street Gallery
P&O Ferries / Elstone Hayes Associates
Cill Rialaig Project, South West Ireland
Gallery The Yard, Netherlands
Frank Steyaert Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
Ceramic Art London, 2006
2007 – 2012
Danish Connection, Jutland, Denmark
British Potters, Kate Chertavian Fine Arts, USA
It’s What’s on the Outside That Matters?, Newport Museum & Art Gallery, Wales
Lyne Strover Gallery, Cambridge, UK
Milne & Moller, 20/21 London, UK
2014
Taos Clay, New Mexico, USA
ArthousE1, London, UK
2015 – 2016
Lyne Strover Gallery, Cambridge, UK
2017
The Stars They Are, Berg Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2018
ClayAkar Yunomi Invitational, Iowa City, USA
Marble Dust & Rainbows, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, UK
2019
Potter, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, UK
Periodicals
Ceramic Review (2005) Issue 213, May/June
Keramisch Magazine, Klei (2006) November
Galleries Magazine (2007) December
World of Interiors (1999) November
Ceramics: Art & Perception (2011) September
Books
Cooper, E. (2009) Contemporary Ceramics. London: Thames & Hudson
Thorpe, A. (2023) Contemporary British Studio Pottery – Forms of Expression. Marlborough: The Crowood Press. Chapter 6: ‘Sam Hall – Muse of Fire’, in section ‘Dialogues with Contemporary Art’
