News and the story so far...

Installation in the Permanent Collection of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum of Wales

2023. With many, many thanks to Erskine Hall & Coe and The Derek Williams Trust we can announce that this installation of mine has been acquired by the Derek Williams Trust, and in future will go on display at the Amguedddfa Cymru - National Museum of Wales.
Image courtesy of Erskine Hall & Coe ; photographer Stuart Burford

Experts Panel - Loewe Craft Prize 2023

I am hugely honoured to have returned as one of the Experts for the Loewe Craft Prize 2023. We gathered in Madrid in January to agree on the list of this year's Finalists. https://craftprize.loewe.com

2020 Exhibition - Making and Momentum - In Conversation with Eileen Gray at E.1027

Shown at Wexford County Council

Read Wallpaper magazine's interview with Richard Malone here...

Making and Momentum : In Conversation with Eileen Gray, at E.1027

@makingandmomentum
curated by Richard Malone
An exhibition to celebrate the completed refurbishment of Gray's modernist masterpiece, after 7 years of refurbishment.

London Exhibition Review November 2020

I am really grateful to Emma Crichton Miller for her review in The Design Edit magazine of my most recent London exhibition in Erskine Hall & Coe. It's been so difficult for people to travel to see work 'in the flesh', this take on the pots is all the more appreciated.

In October 2019 I undertook a month-long residency in Sasama, Japan.

Sasama is a beautiful place in rural Japan. The ethos behind the residency is that the participants experience real life in a rural village and I can vouch for the fact that it was a hugely enriching experience.

The residency was followed by my participation in the International Ceramic Festival which takes place every 2 years...details via the link below..

https://www.icaf-sasama.com/artist2019

Ulster Museum - Acquisition for their Permanent Collection

The Ulster Museum in Belfast have added these 2 pieces to their permanent collection. The works will be on display in the Museum later in 2019. Purchased through and with the support of Erskine Hall & Coe in London.

Collections:

• Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum of Wales, Purchase funded by the Derek Williams Trust
• The permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Purchase funded by Christopher M. Gorman-Evans
• The permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Purchase funded by Christopher M. Gorman-Evans
• The Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland
• The National Museum of Ireland, Decorative Arts & History, Collins Barracks, purchased through the Contemporary Collection of Design & Craft, a joint initiative of The National Museum of Ireland and Design & Crafts Council of Ireland
• Loewe
• The Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada
• The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England, U.K.
• The Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland
• The Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth House, Chatsworth, U.K.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, U.S.A. (Gift of Michael and Tamara Root)
• Shanghai Municipal People's Government, China
• Office of Public Works, Farmleigh House, Dublin, Ireland
• National Museum of Ireland, Dublin
• Columbus State University, Georgia, U.S.A.
• Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
• Irish Department of Foreign Affairs - Foreign Embassies Collection - Canberra, Australia (2005); Madrid, Spain and The Hague, The Netherlands (2007); Beijing, China (2013)

Panels:

• Member of the Experts Panel - Loewe Craft Prize - 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023
• Member of the Judging Panel - RDS Craft Awards - 2018, 2019, 2020

Awards:

• Golden Fleece Award - Merit - 2019
• Loewe Craft Prize Finalist 2017
• Golden Fleece Award - Merit - 2016
• Peter Brennan Pioneering Potter Award, Ceramics Ireland, 2010
• C.C.O.I. Travel Bursary Award 2006, 2007
• Design & Crafts Council of Ireland (D.C.C.O.I). Research and Development Award 2005

International Residencies:

It is my pleasure to have been awarded the opportunity to work on three International residencies...

• 2019 - Koryu Centre Sasama, Japan. A month-long residency in rural Japan. Generously supported by The Golden Fleece Award.
• 2013 - Liverpool (U.K.), undertaking a 6-week residency at Hope University in partnership with the Bluecoat Display Centre and supported by The Crafts Council of Ireland.
• 2011 - I was one of 13 Irish Makers selected to participate in a month-long residency in FULE International Ceramic Art Museums, Fuping, China