Adam Frew
Ceramicist Adam Frew is a graduate of the University of Ulster and has worked with internationally renowned potters including Judy Makela in Finland and Lisa Hammond in Greenwich.
In 2008 Adam completed a two year placement at Flowerfield Arts Centre on Craft NI's making it programme for craft business development. After the programme he remained at the centre where he continues to develop his trademark one-off pots and functional works in porcelain.
He particularly favours throwing. The white porcelain is a perfect ground for the inky cobalt drawings which decorate his pots.
Some imagery is restrained to the simplicity of a single line and other images depict busy narratives. Simple sprigs reminiscent of wax seals from a bygone era embellish some of the surfaces.
“I make functional pots and expressive vessels using a porcelain and stoneware clay, fired in a wood or gas kiln. My approach is to think of the potters wheel as a creative tool and the clay surface as a three-dimensional canvas. I interact strongly with the clay, making marks on the surfaces while they are still wet, deliberately misshaping the vessels.
All of the decoration is spontaneous, a unique fusion of skill and chance – freedom of expression, within necessary boundaries.”
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Professional Experience
Solo Exhibitions
2010 – Solo, Red Barn Gallery, Cumbria
2008 – Adam Frew Solo Show – Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart
Selected Exhibitions
2011 – Gallery Uggerby- Lonstrup, Denmark
2011 – RBSA Gallery- Grafika, Birmingham
2011 – Leeds Craft and Design Centre, Leeds
2011 – Exhibition Irish Ceramics, Kilkenny shop, Dublin
2010 – Cecilila Colman Gallery – London
2010 – Bonhoga Gallery – Shetland
2010 – Galanthus Gallery – Herefordshire
2010 – Ilkley Manor House – Ilkley
2010 – Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair – Manchester
2010 – Craft2eu, Hamburg
2010 – Fortnum and Mason – “Hand Made”- London
2010 – RBSA Gallery – In the Making, Birmingham
2009 – The Harley Gallery – Irish Ceramics
2009 – Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Manchester
2009 – Hillsborough Courthouse- Northern Ireland Contemporary Ceramics
2009 – Imagine Gallery, Sulfolk
2009 – Gallery 9, Festival Exhibition, Bath
2009 – Twenty Twenty Gallery – Portrait
2009 – British Trade Craft Fair, Harrogate
2009 – Ground Floor Gallery, Belfast
2009 – Bovey Tracey – CUP, Devon
2009 – Space Craft, Belfast Exhibition, Belfast
2009 – Ceramic Art London, Royal College of Art
2009 – Blackwell Arts and Crafts House, On the surface, Cumbria
2008 – Shipley Gallery, Gateshead
2008 – Emerge and Infuse Space Craft, Belfast
2008 – Royal Ulster Academy, Annual Exhibition, Titanic Quarter, Belfast
2008 – Ceramics in the Round, Buxton
2008 – Going Green, Touring Exhibition around Ireland
2008 – Potters without Borders, Genkan Gallery, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
2008 – Afternoon Tea, Leitrim Design House, Carrick-on-Shannon
2008 – New Ashgate gallery, Farnham
2009 Ceramic Review Issue 235
2008 ‘Who is Adam Frew’, John Foley
2007 ‘About: Adam Frew’, Perspective magazine
2004 Homes and Interiors Ireland
Contact Details
Flowerfield Arts Centre
185 Coleraine Road, Portstewart,
Northern Ireland
BT55 7HU
