richard slee

‘philosophy’, 2008

richard slee has been working as a studio ceramic artist for over 30 years, and was one of the first ceramicists to call into questions those boundaries. the humorous and rather eccentric body of work contains a variety of animals – including appropriated rabbit which slee found in a junk shop and had to make a ceramic model of it to understand it. richard was the winner of the 2002 jerwood prize for ceramics, the major british award in the applied arts.

‘lamps’, 2002

‘appropriated rabbit’, 2002

‘cornucopia’, 1983

born 1946, richard slee studied at the central school of art and design (1965-70) and the royal college of art, london (1986-88). internationally acclaimed, his work can be found in numerous private and public collections worldwide including museum of arts and design, new york; los angeles county museum; museum of modern art, kyoto; hongik university, korea; national museum, stockholm; trondheim museum of applied arts, norway; stedelijk museum, amsterdam; manchester metropolitan museum; fitzwilliam museum, cambridge; and the victoria & albert museum, london. a professor of the university of the arts, london since 1992.

a solo exhibition of slee‘s work is planned by the victoria & albert museum for june 2010-march 2011.