The Gallery
Slipping the Trail Philip Eglin
16 April - 05 June 2016
“I want to acknowledge the tradition of slipware whilst at the same time attempt to revitalise and reinvigorate it for the present".
Mission Gallery is delighted to receive this touring exhibition - a collaboration between the Ceramic Collection and Archive at Aberystwyth Universityand Philip Eglin, one of the major ceramicists in the UK.
Over the course of the project Eglin visited the collection and made drawings and photographs of key pieces. Eglin has always been a borrower, responding to things he loves in the world around him. Great paintings, old pots, children’s drawings or plastic bottles – all become sources of inspiration and flash points to set the artist’s eye on a new trajectory. He enjoys working with museum collections and in Aberystwyth, he quickly identified the collection of nineteenth century slipware, much of it from Buckley in North Wales, as a potential for a new body of work.
It is especially appropriate for the exhibition that the photographer, Oliver Eglin, Philip’s son, agreed to produce the beautiful photographs for the catalogue and of his father in the studio. The 66 page colour catalogue accompanying the exhibition, includes essays by David Whiting, Jill Piercy and Josie Walter. It features images of Philip Eglin's preliminary drawings, Buckley Pottery from the Ceramics Collection photographed at Nanteos Mansion Country House Hotel, and of course Philip Eglin's finished work, photographed by his son Oliver.
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