Gordon Baldwin
Born 1932, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Lives in Market Drayton, United Kingdom
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1949-50 Lincoln School of Art, Lincoln
1950-53 Central School of Art and Design, London
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- Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
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2021
"Gordon Baldwin: Works 1971-2003", Corvi-Mora, London
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2018
Marsden Woo Gallery, London
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2016
“Gordon Baldwin & Ewen Henderson”, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London
“Gordon Baldwin & Ewen Henderson”, Eton College, Windsor -
2015
Erskine, Hall & Coe, London
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2013
“Vessels in White and Black”, Marsden Woo Gallery, London
“Gordon Baldwin: Objects for a Landscape”, The Plymouth City Museum & Art
Gallery, Plymouth -
2012
Galerie Heller, Heidelberg
“Gordon Baldwin: Objects for a Landscape”, York Art Gallery, York (touring) -
2011
“Dark Water and Boulders Shouting”, Marsden Woo Gallery, London
“Gordon Baldwin: Excitations”, York Art Gallery, York -
2009
Eton College, Windsor
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2008
Ruthin Crafts Centre (with Nancy Baldwin), Ruthin
Barrett Marsden Gallery, London -
2005
Barrett Marsden Gallery, London
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2004
Galerie Capazza, Nançay
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2003
Barrett Marsden Gallery (with Nancy Baldwin), London
Goed Werk Gallery (with Martin Smith), Belgium -
2002
Galerie Marianne Heller (with Alison Britton), Heidelberg
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2001
Barrett Marsden Gallery, London
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2000
Galerie B15, Munich
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1999
Barrett Marsden Gallery (with Nancy Baldwin), London
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1998
Lynne Strover Gallery (with Nancy Baldwin), Cambridge
Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh -
1997
Hart Gallery, London
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1996
Galerie Besson, London
Galerie Osiris, Brussels -
1995
Crafts Council Shop at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
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1994
Hart Gallery, Linby
Eton College (with Nancy Baldwin), Windsor -
1993
Contemporary Applied Arts, London
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1992
Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne
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1990
Galerie Bowig, Hanover
Hetjens Museum, Dusseldorf -
1989
Contemporary Applied Arts, London
Boijmans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam -
1986
Solomon Gallery, London
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1984
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth
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1983
“Gordon Baldwin: A Retrospective View”, Cleveland County Museum (touring
retrospective), Middlesbrough -
1981
Crafts Council Shop at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Eton College, Windsor
Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk -
1979
Eton College, Windsor
Oxford Gallery (with Nancy Baldwin), Oxford -
1978
Carmel College, Wallingford
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1975
Oxford Gallery, Oxford
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1974
British Crafts Centre (with Peter Simpson), London
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1973
Salix (with Nancy Baldwin), Windsor
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1970
Covent Garden Gallery, London
British Crafts Centre, London
Oxford Gallery, Oxford -
1965
Thames Gallery, Windsor
Covent Garden Gallery, London -
1964
Thames Gallery, Windsor
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1962
Thames Gallery, Windsor
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1960
Whibley Gallery, London
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1958
Betty Horn, London
Thames Gallery, Windsor
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- Group Exhibitions
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2023
“New Areas: Contemporary Ceramics at Walmer Yard” Walmer Yard, London
“New Areas: Contemporary Ceramics at Newstead Abbey” Newstead Abbey, Nottingham -
2021
“Maker’s Eye”, Crafts Council Gallery, London
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2019
Marsden Woo Gallery, London
“Small Works, Great Artists”, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London
“In the Form of a Bowl”, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London
“20th Century British Ceramics” , Erskine, Hall & Coe, London -
2018
Marsden Woo Gallery, London
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2017
“Continuum: Light, Space and Time”, The Harwood Museum Of Art, University Of
New Mexico, Taos, NM, USA
“Twelve Artists”, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London
“Material: Earth” Messum’s, London -
2016
“Contemporary British Studio Ceramics: The Grainer Collection”, Mint Museum of
Art, Charlotte, NC, USA -
2015
“Random Growth: Contemporary European Ceramics”, Sarah Myerscoughh Gallery,
London -
2014
“Classic & Contemporary Ceramics”, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London
“Vase, Vessel, Void”, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin
“Europe and Beyond”, The Coach House Gallery, Dublin
Marsden Woo Gallery, London
“Nancy Baldwin and Gordon Baldwin”, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh -
2013
“Classic & Contemporary Ceramics”, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK
Cheongju Crafts Biennale, South Korea
Marsden Woo Gallery, London, UK
“Stark Contrasts: Black and White Ceramics from RAM's Collection” Racine Art
Museum, Racine, WI, USA -
2012
Marsden Woo Gallery, London
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2011
“Sitting & Looking” Somerset House, London
Marsden Woo Gallery, London -
2009
Galerie Hélène Poirée, Paris
“Gordon Baldwin and Nancy Baldwin”, Eton Applied Arts, Windsor -
2008
“Ten Years Innit!”, Barrett Marsden Gallery, London
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2005
“Organic Abstraction II”, Garth Clark Gallery, Long Island City
Crafts Council Shop at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London -
2004
“Hands Across the Border”, Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin
Galerie Sarver, Paris -
2003
“British Ceramics: Five Artists”, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
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2002
“The Golden Age of Ceramics”, The Red Gallery, Southsea
Gardiner Museum, Toronto
“Subject (IV) – Objekt”, Deutsches Porzellanmuseum, Hohenberg -
2000
Barrett Marsden Gallery, London
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1999
Barrett Marsden at Galerie Binnen, Amsterdam
“Commemorative Mugs for the Millennium”, Galerie Besson, London
“25 Years of Contemporary Craft”, Crafts Council Shop at the V&A, London -
1998
“In A Strange Land”, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
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1996
“The Jerwood Ceramic Prize Exhibition”, Crafts Council, London
“Hand To Hand” Contemporary Applied Arts, London
Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam -
1995
“Pandora's Box”, Crafts Council, London
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1994
Inscape (tour to Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery), Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham
“The Raw and The Cooked”, The Barbican Arts Centre, London (Travelled to Japan) -
1993
Oxford Gallery, Oxford
“The Raw and the Cooked”, Barbican Art Gallery, London
“Ceramics from the Eagle Collection”, Shipley Museum & Art Gallery, Gateshead -
1992
“British and Dutch Ceramics”, Rufford Craft Centre, Rufford
Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main -
1991
“Colours of the Earth - Twentieth Century British Ceramics”, British Council
(touring)
“Fourteen British Potters”, Galleria Il Giardino Dell'Arte, Bologna
“The Abstract Vessel”, Oriel Gallery, Cardiff, Wales
“Beyond the Dovetail”, Crafts Council, London
“British Ceramics” Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM, USA
International Ceramics, South Korea
“Configura I: Kunst In Europa” Erfurt, Germany -
1990
Charlotte Hennig Gallery, Darmstadt
St. James Gallery, Bath
“Space and Form”, Rufford Craft Centre, Newark, Nottinghamshire -
1989
Sheila Harrison Fine Art, London
L’Europe des Céramistes, St. Germain d’Auxerre -
1988
“London/Amsterdam: new art objects from Britain and Holland” Crafts Council Gallery, London
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1987
Palazzo Agostinelli, Bassano del Grappa
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1986
Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim
American and British Ceramics, Smith Gallery, London -
1985
“British Ceramics”, Keramion, Frechen
“British and German Ceramics”, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge -
1984
“8 Ceramicists”, British Crafts Centre, London
“Artist Potters Now”, Museum of Oxford, Oxford, UK (touring) -
1981
“British Ceramics and Textiles”, Scharpoord Arts Centre, Knokke-Heist
Crafts Council Shop at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London -
1980
Charlotte Hennig Gallery, Darmstadt
“Image and Idea”, British Council tour, UK -
1979
Kölner Keramic Galerie, Cologne
Takashimaya Gallery, Tokyo -
1978
“The State of Clay”, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland (touring)
“British Potters”, Graham Gallery, New York -
1977
Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton
“British Potters”, Graham Gallery, New York -
1976
“British Ceramics”, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania
“7 in 76”, Portsmouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Portsmouth -
1975
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
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1973
“The Craftsman's Art”, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
“British Twentieth Century Ceramics”, Liverpool -
1972
“International Ceramics”, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Faenza International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza
“New Directions”, Oxford Gallery, Oxford -
1971
“Modern British Ceramics”, Koster Gallery, Monchengladbach, Germany
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1969
Seibu Gallery, Tokyo
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1966
“Structure 66”, Grosvenor Gallery, London
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1964
“September International”, Grosvenor Gallery, London
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1963
Leicester Galleries, London
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1961
Primavera Gallery, London
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- Awards
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2000
Honorary Doctorate, Royal College of Art, London
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1996
Shortlisted for the Jerwood Ceramic Prize
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1992
Awarded OBE
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- Public Collections
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Abbot Hall, Kendal
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Boijmans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Buckinghamshire County Museum
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Contemporary Art Society, London
Crafts Council, London
Greater London Council
Hanover City Museum, Germany
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
Keramiekmuseum Princessehof, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Keramion, Frechen, Germany
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
Leicestershire Schools and Colleges Collection, Leicester
Los Angeles County Museum, USA
Melbourne City Art Gallery. Australia
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA) Gallery, Oldham
Musée Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Montreal, Canada
Museu de Ceramica, Barcelona, Spain
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, USA
Museum fur Moderne Keramik, Deidesheim, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki, Japan
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim, Norway
Octagon Centre, Ames, IW, USA
Paisley Museum and Art Gallery, Paisley
Pennsylvania State University, USA
Portsmouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Portsmouth
Potteries Museum, Stoke-on-Trent
Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin, USA
Scharpoord Arts Centre, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan
Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead
Southampton City Art Gallery
Southern Arts, Winchester
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Usher Gallery, Lincoln
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Wurttembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart, Germany
York Art Gallery, York
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- Selected Publications
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2012
David Whiting (ed.), “Objects for a Landscape”, York Art Gallery, York
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2010
Jeffrey Jones, “A Rough Equivalent; Sculpture and Pottery in the Post-War Period” Essays on Sculpture no 62, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
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2009
David Whiting, “Modern British Potters and their Studios”, A & C Black, London
Emmanuel Cooper, “Contemporary Ceramics”, Thames & Hudson, London -
2007
Cigalle Hanaor (et al), “Breaking the Mould; New Approaches to Ceramics”, Black Dog Publishing, London
Jeffrey Jones, “Studio Pottery in Britain 1900-2005”, A & C Black, London -
2002
Martin Harrison, “Transition: The London Art Scene in the Fifties”, Merrell/Barbican Art Gallery, London
Paul Rice, “British Studio Ceramics”, The Crowood Press, Ramsbury
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1999
Edmund de Waal, “Design Sourcebook: Ceramics”, New Holland, London
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1995
Garth Clark, “The Potter's Art; A Complete History of Pottery in Britain”, Phaidon Press, London
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1993
Oliver Watson, “Studio Pottery: Twentieth Century British Ceramics in the Victoria & Albert Museum”, Phaidon Christies, London
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1991
John Houston, “The Abstract Vessel”, Bellew Publishing, London
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1989
Dorris Kuyken-Schneider (ed), “Gordon Baldwin; Mysterious Volumes”, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam
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1986
Dorris Kuyken-Schneider (ed), “Gordon Baldwin; Mysterious Volumes”, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam
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1986
Peter Dormer, “The New Ceramics: Trends and Traditions”, Thames & Hudson, London
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1983
John Houston, “Gordon Baldwin”, Cleveland County Museum, Middlesbrough
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1976
Tony Birks, “The Art of the Modern Potter”, 2nd edition Country Life, London
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1975
John Houston, “Gordon Baldwin: A Monograph”, Oxford Gallery, Oxford
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1967
Michael Casson, “Pottery in Britain Today”, Alec Tiranti, London
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1964
Herbert Read, “A Concise History of Modern Sculpture”, Thames & Hudson, London
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- Selected Press
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2022
“Spending time with Gordon Baldwin”, Gordon Baldwin in conversation, Marfa Journal
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1999
Anne-Carole Chamier, “Ways Of Seeing: Gordon Baldwin”, Ceramic Review, Issue 179
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1996
Emmanuel Cooper, “Special Silences - Emmanuel Cooper considers the vessel forms of Gordon Baldwin”, Ceramic Review, Issue 158
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1991
Tanya Harrod, “Exhibition Review”, Crafts, July/August
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1990
Emmanuel Cooper, “Exhibition Review”, Crafts, July/August
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1989
Tanya Harrod, “Sources of Inspiration”, Crafts, January/February
Victor Margrie, “Exhibition Review”, Crafts, July/August