Adam Buick: Raw Earth
Hardback | 250 x 250mm | Pages 192 |
ISBN 9781802584370 | £40
An in-depth exploration of the life and work of Pembrokeshire-based ceramicist Adam Buick, covering projects spanning his career to date.
Adam uses the single, pure jar form as a canvas to map his observations of the landscape.
By incorporating local stone and clay into his work, he creates an artistic narrative that conveys a truly unique sense of place. Mineral inclusions in the surface of his pots create one-off effects during firing, and this tension between materials reflects the ways that landscapes shape us as individuals.
With over 200 illustrations, to reflect the artist’s mode of working the pictorial content includes both studio ceramics and ceramics in the landscape.
'The work of Adam Buick is elemental. He combines earth, air, fire and water with thousands of hours of learning, practice, thought and technique. ... It seems to me to be a visual representation of a life in tune with itself, with the land, with the sea. Beautiful.'
Jackie Morris
'Adam Buick conjures up worlds of spontaneous drama, pots so diverse in their scale and texture, so exquisite in their making, so alive with the Pembrokeshire landscape which they literally embody, that his passionate connection to his environment becomes unmistakable.’
Andrew Renton, Head of Design Collections, National Museum Cardiff
Adam Buick
Born in 1978, Adam Buick is a ceramic artist based on the St Davids Peninsula in Pembrokeshire, West Wales, where he grew up. Following a degree in Archaeology and Anthropology from Lampeter University, he turned to ceramics, attending West Wales School of the Arts before training to be a potter in Ireland.Since 2006, Buick has built a nationwide reputation and exhibited internationally, from Helsinki to Buenos Aires, Melbourne to New York.
In 2013 he was selected for the Jerwood Makers Open and received a Ceramic Review Award. His work was included in the British Pavilion at Cheongju Craft Biennale, Korea, 2017; in the exhibition Things of Beauty Growing at the Yale Center for British Art and the Fitzwilliam Museum, 2017-2018; and in the British Ceramics Biennale’s Award exhibition in 2019.
Buick has exhibited at Hauser and Wirth Somerset, the New Art Centre, Beaux Arts Bath, Sarah Myerscough Gallery and at the 2019 Frieze Art Fair with Corvi-Mora. In 2023, Ruthin Craft Centre, a collaborator for many years, hosted his major solo show Grounding. Buick has been widely published and has work in public and private collections around the world, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Hepworth Wakefield, the British Museum, Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, the UK Crafts Council and the Devonshire Collections at Chatsworth House.
For further information on Adam's work, visit his website at www.adambuick.com.
Event: Adam Buick Raw Earth Exhibition
Adam Buick: Raw Earth Exhibition
Contemporary Ceramics.
6 March - 29 March 2025.
63 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury
London, WC1B 3BF
Tel: +44 (0)20 7242 9644
info@contemporaryceramics.uk
www.contemporaryceramics.uk
Adam uses a single pure jar form as a canvas to map his observations from an ongoing study of his surroundings. He incorporates stone and locally dug clay into his work to create a narrative, one that conveys a unique sense of place. The unpredictable nature of each jar comes from the inclusions and their metamorphosis during firing. This individuality and tension between materials speaks of the human condition and how the landscape shapes us as individuals.
Adam was inspired by archaeological theories that the Menhirs of prehistory are a veneration of the landscapes that surrounds them. With his site-specific work he too is venerating the landscape. By placing a Jar at a particular location within the landscape he hopes that it will make us look beyond the object to its surroundings.
Adam’s work is also about change, about natural cycles and the transience of human endeavour. Paths are a motif he uses to represent his actual and metaphoric journeys through a place. To understand a landscape is to move through it, to give it context. Paths are like common routes of experience, guiding us through the landscape. They are connections through time, to others and to the land.
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