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Background

Dan makes one off pieces in stoneware and porcelain. He also produces some utilitarian ware. Work is fired in an electric kiln.

1973-77 Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts
1977-79 Royal College of Art

Born: 1953

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Exhibitions:

2022 - Collect, 155a GallerySomerset House, London
2019 - 'Vessel' Galerie Metzger
         - ’50 years in the making’ Bedford 
Boys School
         - MIAR Ceramics & Arts Hove
2017 - MIAR Ceramics & Arts Hove
2016 - ‘Explore’ Contemporary Ceramics, London
         - MIAR Ceramics & Arts Hove
2015 - MIAR Ceramics & Arts Hove
2014 - MIAR Ceramics & Arts Hove
2013 - MIAR Ceramics & Arts Hove
2012 - MIAR Ceramics & Arts Hove
         - Porcelain Show, Oxford Ceramics 
2011 - Contemporary Ceramics through 50, Rochester Art Gallery
         - Belgrave Gallery, St Ives

2010 - Goldmark Gallery - Modern British Potters
2009 - Galerie Besson – Pots for Light
             Rochester Art Gallery and Craft Case - Fusion
2007 - Collect CAL 2007
             Contemporary Ceramics - Monochrome
             Galerie Besson - The Jug Show
             Galerie Besson - Classic and Contemporary Ceramics
2006 - Ceramic Art 2006
             Spiral Gallery – Settle
2005 - CAA - Focus
2005 - Galerie Besson - Camberwell in the 1970s
             Maltby Gallery - with Peter Joyce paintings
             Harlequin Gallery - tea bowls and yunomis
2004 - New Ashgate Gallery - mixed show
             Bloomers - Mixed show at CPA
             Collect - Art Fair at V & A
2003 - Spring Art Fair - Olympia
             Art 2003 - Business Design Centre, Islington
2002 - Austin Desmond - mixed show
2001 - Maureen Michaelson - mixed garden show
             Elms Lesters - Brussels Art Fair
             Alpha House - mixed show
2000 - Suite 3 - mixed show
             Paul Rice - mixed show
             Austin Desmond - mixed show
             Maiden Bridge, Lancashire - mixed show
             Chelsea Crafts Fair
1999 - Suite 3 - mixed show
             Elms Lesters - tribal art, painting and ceramics
1998 - Places and Spaces
1997 - Camberwell Gallery
1996 - Felstead Arts Festival
1993 - Paul Rice - two man show with Malcolm Pepper High Table - touring exhibition
1992 - Elms Lesters, Isthmus, London
1991 - Julius Gotlieb Gallery, Carmel College
1990 - Bath International Arts Fair
             Chicago Applied Arts Fair
             Edinburgh Festival, New British Ceramics
             Michaelson and Orient - three man show with Colin Pearson and Colin Gorry
             British Ceramics in Norway - traveling exhibition
1989 - Michaelson and Orient - solo show
             Art '89, London
             Metaphor and Change, New British Ceramics, Heidleberg, Germany

Public Collections:

Ulster Museum, Belfast
Cleveland Museum, Cleveland
Franz Hals Museum, Netherlands  
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Pallant House Gallery, Sussex

Awards:

1980 New Craftsman Grant from the British Crafts Council

Publications:

Ceramics for the Home by Annabel Fryberg, Laurence King Publishing 1999.
British Studio Ceramics by Paul Rice, Crowood Publishing, 2002
A Guide to Collecting Studio Pottery by Alistair Hawtin, A&C Black, 2008
Modern British Potters and their Studios by David Whiting, A&C Black, 2009
Contemporary British Studio Ceramics: The Grainer Collection, by Annie Carlano, Yale University Press, 2011

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