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Robert Dawson

https://www.petronillasilver.co.uk/

About

Robert Dawson uses historic ceramic sources and subverts and re-presents them, in what he calls “a gentle violation of expectation”. Recently his work has been an exploration of pattern and sequence.

Selected collections:
• The Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool
• The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
• The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas
• The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
• The Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
• The British Council Collection, London
• The Museum of Arts and Design, New York City
• The Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden (\\\’Spin\\\’ in East Asian Inspiration, Room 3)
• RIAN Design Museum, Falkenberg, Sweden
• Designmuseum Danmark, Copenhagen
• The Gosport Museum, Hampshire
• The International Ceramic Studio, Kecskemét, Hungary
• Museo De Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
• Contemporary Art Society purchase for The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
• Temple Newsam House, Leeds
• Auckland Museum, New Zealand
• Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester
• Palais des Evêques de Comminges, Alan, France
• Permanenten Vestlandske Kunstindustrimuseum, Bergen, Norway
• Maison Patrimoniale de Barthète, Boussan, France
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
• Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland
Selected solo and two-person exhibitions:
• 2023: Signifying Nothing in Colour, Ken Artspace, London, 11 to 27 May 2023
• 2023: Signifying Nothing, Ken Artspace, London, 15 April to 6 May 2023
• 2021-22: Pièces à problèmes – Robert Dawson and Richard Slee, Musée Ariana, Geneva
• 2017: En Avant, The Shrine of St Augustine, Ramsgate
• 2015-16: Robert Dawson: Pattern Play, National Glass Centre, Sunderland
• 2012: Surface Games / Jeux de Surface, Barthète, Boussan, France
• 2010: Bypass, in collaboration with Steve Bunn, New Greenham Arts, Berkshire
• 2008: Ornament & Crime, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
• 2005: Robert Dawson Aesthetic Sabotage, Clay Gallery, Venice, California
• 2003: Robert Dawson, Window Gallery, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf
• The Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston
• Nottingham City Council
Art colleges:
• 1997/99: MA, Ceramics & Glass, Royal College of Art
• 1990/93: BA, Art and Design, Camberwell College of Arts
Selected group exhibitions:
2023 “Perspective” Petronilla Silver, 8 Holland Street, Kensington, London
2022: \\\’Wells Art Contemporary 2022\\\’, Wells Cathedral, Somerset
2020/21: \\\’Between Sea and Sky: Blue and White Ceramics from Persia and Beyond\\\’, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2019: ‘Mixed Display’ Marsden Woo Gallery, London
2018-19: \\\’In Conversation: 18th-Century Influences on Contemporary Craft\\\’, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2018: ’Porcelain Plus\\\’, Køppe Contemporary Objects, Gallery R2, Bornholm, Denmark