New in the Park | Adam Buick
Adam Buick
Massive Intertidal Jar 4
2025
Stoneware with Waun Llodi clay slip under a Nuka glaze
66 cm / 26 in.
Adam Buick
Massive Intertidal Jar 3
2025
Stoneware with Waun Llodi clay slip under a Nuka glaze
66 cm / 26 in.
Newly sited on the Design House terrace in the walled garden at Roche Court, Massive Intertidal Jar 3 and Massive Intertidal Jar 4 are wonderful additions to the New Art Centre's collection of ceramics.
Ceramicist Adam Buick uses the form of Korean Moon-jars as a canvas to map observations from an ongoing study of his surroundings and the human condition. The use of glazes and firing temperatures in his ceramics allows unpredictable metamorphosis to occur, forming the finish just as we are formed by the world around us. Using locally dug clay and stone inclusions which emerge from the smooth porcelain surface, the Welsh landscape is emotionally and literally laced through his thrown jars.
The Waun Llodi clay slip was dug from the moors beside Adam Buick's studio. He intentionally kept the clay impure, with bits of stone and imperfections that rise beneath the surface of the Nuka glaze. Both jars were made at the same time, with two wheels spinning at once, which, given their size, speaks to the acute attention and craftsmanship of their maker. Whilst Massive Intertidal Jar 4 was completely covered in the slip, offering dynamic texture, Massive Intertidal Jar 3 is only partly covered. Buick used a large ladle filled with the clay slip, which he splashed onto the jar in a gestural motion. The running of the slip is frozen in its tracks by firing and glazing, resulting in beautiful features of darker colour and a stark contrast in the presence of small stones, juxtaposed by the smoothness of the glaze where no slip was applied.
Adam Buick
Massive Intertidal Jar 4
2025
Stoneware with Waun Llodi clay slip under a Nuka glaze
66 cm / 26 in.
Adam Buick
Massive Intertidal Jar 3
2025
Stoneware with Waun Llodi clay slip under a Nuka glaze
66 cm / 26 in.
In 2001, Adam Buick received his BA joint honours in archaeology and anthropology at Lampeter University and subsequently attended the West Wales School of Art in Carmarthen in 2003. In 2017 Buick was granted the Creative Wales Award.
Adam Buick has exhibited widely in the UK and Ireland. Selected solo and group shows include Atavism, Hauser & Wirth, Somerset (2019); Things of Beauty Growing, at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (2018) and the Yale Centre for British Art (2017); Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London; Material: Earth, Messums, Wiltshire (2017), and Ceramic Art London, RCA (2012). His work is held in several public and private collections including The British Museum; Crafts Council UK; Chatsworth House; Ceramic Review Award; The National Museum Cardiff; The British Academy, and the Arts Council of Wales.
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