CHRIS KEENAN
Unit 7C Vanguard Court
Rear of 36-38 Peckham Road
London
SE5 8QT
Tel: 020 7701 2940
E-mail: chriskeenan.potter@gmail.com
Born 1st June 1960
1978-81
1981-82
1982-95
1995-97
1998-
University of Hull - BA Hons. Drama
Postgraduate acting course - Webber Douglas - London
Worked as a professional actor in theatre and television
Apprenticed to Edmund de Waal
Working from own studio in London
Fellow of the Craft Potters Association
Chair of the Craft Pottery Charitable Trust
Member of Contemporary Applied Arts
Solo Shows
July 2014
New Craftsmen, St Ives
June 2104
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
September 2013
Oxford Ceramics Gallery, Oxford
February 2013 Beaux Arts, Bath
May 2012
New Craftsman, St Ives
January 2011
Beaux Arts, Bath
January 2009 Beaux Arts, Bath
June 2008
Roger Billcliffe FIne Art, Glasgow
May 2006
Beaux Arts, Bath
May 2005
Spiral Gallery, Settle
April 2004
Beaux Arts, Bath
June 2002
Primavera, Cambridge
November 2001
White Gallery, Hove
Recent Group Shows (selected)
2014
Vessels – Contemporary British Ceramics – Mashiko Museum of
Ceramic Art, Japan
Out of Sight – CAA, London
Craft Into Industry – CAA, London
2013
Make It Slow - part of Art Unpacked, a Chrysalis Arts project,
a UK touring exhibition
British Ceramics Biennial – Spode Factory Site, Stoke-on-Trent
Cheongju Ceramic Biennale – Cheongju, Korea
Ceramics Now – Gallery at Bevere, Worcestershire
continued….
2012
Domestic Matters – CAA, London
Summertime Blues – Leach Pottery, St Ives
Focus – CAA, London
Hay Festival with the Bowie Gallery – Herefordshire
Joze Art Fair with Zimmer Stewart Gallery – London
2011
2010
Tablescapes – Talbot House Gallery, London
Decorex - London
Tokyo Art Fair – with Gallery St. Ives, Tokyo
Ceramic Biennial 2011, Award Exhibition – Stoke-on-Trent
Functional Pots – Oxford Ceramics, Oxford
A Day in the life of Vanguard Court – Mashiko Museum of
Ceramic Art, Japan
Collect - with Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon, London
Starting Point Series II - Siobhan Davies Studios, London
Handmade - Fortnum & Mason, London
Festival Show - Bowie Gallery, Hay-on-Wye
78 Derngate, Northampton
Public Collections Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Japan
Contemporary Art Society
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Gallery Oldham
mima, Middlesbrough
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
York Art Gallery
Awards
October 2006
Best in Show - Awarded by Grand Designs
Magazine at Origin - The London Craft Fair
October 2005
Best Domestic Product - Evening Standard
Homes and Property Award at the Chelsea
Craft Fair
January 1999
Crafts Council setting-up grant
Commissions
2005
SORA - table ware
2003 Tea service
2002 Ritual Vessels
2001
Dinner service
Habitat
Cleveland British Ceramic Art Collection (mima)
Private commission for Llandecwyn – a Welsh
Church
Private commission
Residencies
2014
Artist in Residence, Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Mashiko,
Japan (September - October)
Teaching
West Dean College, Chichester – short course tutor
Camberwell College of Arts, London - visiting lecturer