Biographical Notes

Education

1974 Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts Dip.A.D. Ceramics
1965 Nottingham University B.Sc.

Crafts Council Listing

Index of Selected Makers

Membership

Fellow, Craft Potters Association

Awards

1994 Grant, Yorkshire & Humberside Arts
1990 Grant, Yorkshire Arts
1988 Individual Artist Award, Greater London Arts
1981 Award, West Midlands Arts
1980 Award, West Midlands Arts

Publications

Ceramics For Gardens & Landscape A &C Black Feb 2000
Sawdust Firing, B. T. Batsford 1994
Occasional articles and reviews for Ceramic Review magazine.
Sculpting Basics A & C Black 2005.

Selected Bibliography

Malcolm Hillier, Container Gardening, Dorling Kindersley 1991
Peter Cosentino, Creative Pottery, The Paul Press 1985
Peter Lane, Studio Ceramics, Collins 1983

Events

2008 Open Up Sheffield
2008 Earth & Fire at Rufford
2007 Open Up Sheffield
2006 Potfest Peak, Bakewell, Derbyshire
2006 Open Up Sheffield
2006 ClayArt, Llanrhaedr Hall, Denbigh, Wales
2005 Potfest Peak
2005 Open Up Sheffield
2004 Open Up Sheffield
2004 Art in Clay, Hatfield House
2003 Open Up Sheffield
2003 Guest artist Ladybay Open Studios, Nottingham
2002 Urban Gardens at Olympia, London
2002 ClayArt Ceramics Fair, Llanrhaeadr Hall, Wales
2002 Ceramics in the City, Geffrye Museum, London
2001 RHS Flower Show, Tatton Park
2001 CPA Autumn Fair Oxford
2001 Art in the City ‘Open Up’ Event, Sheffield
2000 Earth & Fire Ceramic Fair at Rufford
1999 Earth & Fire Ceramic Fair at Rufford
1999 ‘Tierra Reposada’ International Ceramics, Córdoba, Spain (Exhibitor/Demonstrator)
1996 Earth & Fire Ceramic Fair at Rufford
1994 The Great Sheffield Art Show
1994 Earth & Fire Ceramic Fair at Rufford
1992 Garden Festival Wales, Ebbw Vale
1992 Creative Eye
1991 Creative Eye

Recent Exhibitions

2008 Northern Potters at the Platform Gallery, Clitheroe, Lancs
2007 The Gallery Upstairs, Henley-in-Arden
2007 The CPA at Fifty at the Gallery at Bevere
2007 Northern Potters at the Lund Gallery, Easingwold, N. Yorks
2007 Northern Fire 2 at the Oxo Gallery, London
2006 The Garden Gallery, Broughton, Hants
2006 North by North Wales at Rufford Craft Centre
2005 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2005 The Gallery Upstairs, Henley-in-Arden
2005 Northern Fire, Oxo Gallery, London
2004 Millennium Galleries, Sheffield
2004 Ferrers Gallery, Staunton Harold
2004 Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool
2003 Booth House Gallery, Holmfirth
2002 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2002 The Garden Gallery, Broughton, Hants
2002 Maureen Michaelson Gallery, London
2002 Garden Exhibition, The Ferrers Gallery, Staunton Harold, Leics
2002 Garden Ceramics Showcase, Rufford Ceramics Centre, Notts
2001 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2001 The Garden Gallery, Broughton, Hants
2001 Maureen Michaelson Gallery, London
2000 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2000 The Garden Gallery, Broughton, Hants
2000 Maureen Michaelson Gallery, London
1999 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
1999 The Garden Gallery, Broughton, Hants
1998 Bettles Gallery, Ringwood, Hants
1998 Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh, Hants
1997 The Scottish Gallery at Greywalls
1997 The Garden Gallery, Broughton, Hants
1997 ‘The Garden’ at the Harley Gallery, Welbeck, Notts
1996 The Garden Gallery, Broughton, Hants
1996 Contemporary Ceramics ‘In The Window’ (Solo)
1996 Castlegate House Gallery, Cockermouth, Cumbria
1996 Bettles Gallery, Ringwood, Hants
1996 Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh, Hants
1995 The Garden Gallery, Broughton, Hants
1995 Rufford Craft Centre ‘Interiors’
1995 Harlequin Gallery, London (Solo)
1995 ‘Figures in Clay’, Crafts Council Shop
1994 The Scottish Gallery at Greywalls
1994 Rufford Craft Centre ‘Parks and Gardens’
1994 Jewell & Roberts, Holmfirth
1993 Czech and Slovak Centre, Leeds
1992 The Gallery Upstairs, Solihull
1992 Ferrers Gallery, Staunton Harold
1992 Alfresco, Northern Arts Exhibition, Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland
1991 The Scottish Gallery at Greywalls, Edinburgh
1991 The Fiery Beacon Gallery, Painswick
1991 Rufford Craft Centre, Notts
1991 Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool
1990 Stafford Art Gallery 1990 Laurimore Gallery, Boxford
1990 Galerie Dagmar, London
1990 Craftsmen Potters Association
1990 Bettles Gallery, Ringwood
1990 ‘Vernal Chorus’, Collection Gallery, Ledbury

Commissions

2005 Sculpture for Sheffield Museums and Galleries
2001 Various private commissions
2000 Various private commissions
1998 The Crafts Council Chelsea Prize Winner
1991 Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
1982 George Eliot Hospital, Nuneaton

Public Collections

BuckinghamshireCounty Museum
City of Stoke-on-Trent Museum
State Cultural Museum Taiwan
Leeds Schools Loans Service
Paisley Museum
Oxfordshire County Museum
City of Glasgow Museum
Bedfordshire Education Authority
Townley Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Burnley

Karin Hessenberg has also taught regularly at Art colleges around Britain including City College Manchester, the University of Central Lancashire, Leeds College of Art & Design, Bradford College, Harrogate College and Medway College of Design (now Kent Institute).

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