Jim Malone 101 Prize Pots Exhibition Walkthrough | GOLDMARK.TV

Jim Malone - 101 Prize Pots
30 January 2021 - 21 February 2021
Few potters are as revered within the community as Jim Malone. Join us for an impromptu exhibition of some of the Cumbria-based maker’s very best pots. goldmarkart.com
With nearly 45 years’ experience behind him since setting up his first studio in 1976, Jim Malone has firmly established his place in the pantheon of great British potters. A veteran thrower in the mould of Bernard Leach, Michael Cardew, and Bill Marshall, Malone has enlivened the Anglo-Oriental pottery tradition with his expressive, functional wares.
Avoiding what Cardew called the ‘deliberately willed injection of personality’, he has always aimed instead for openness in every process: ‘What I have tried to do is create an environment in which the kind of pots that I want to produce can happen, because you can’t contrive it, you can’t make them happen; you have to let them happen.’
The evolution of Malone’s pots has been gradual, almost subconscious. Working within a repertoire of historical forms - 13th century Chinese, 16th century Korean - he has slowly but surely refined each silhouette, removing all that is unnecessary or inelegant. Round-bellied Korean bottles and black Tenmoku vases, draped in copper pours, sit side by side with medieval-style jugs and ash-glazed mixing bowls, demonstrating Malone’s supreme skill on his Korean-style kick-wheel as well as the breadth of influence in his work.
The pots in this exhibition - at once robust and graceful, intimate and universal - have been hand-picked by the Goldmark pot department. Represented is the culmination of Malone’s five decades of throwing with an ever-watchful eye, looking and responding to the shaping of the clay, striving to give his materials the clarity of their own voice.

[@judywang8393]

Love Jim's pots. Every single one. And oh just collected my pot today from studio with tenmoku glaze all over it. Love it. And thank you for the such high standard video. Really enjoy your explanation.

[@LindaGisla]

I am in awe of these magnificent pots! Jim Malone sure is a Master potter.

[@dianacox6679]

I love it!! I am such a fan of beautiful pots, I love GoldMark Gallery for their dedication to showcasing so many wonderful potters art.

[@MadcapShambleton]

Very much enjoyed this - caught the tail end of the live stream so had to rewind. I like the river analogy for Jim Malone and his work. For me, nothing can top a thoughtfully considered pot that demonstrates such quiet strength. As I learned from one of my mentors, John Colbeck, it's about the complexity of simplicity. Thanks as always @goldmarkart!

[@createlovehappy]

I love that big lidded one you called a bread bin. And that tenmoku with the copper green is beautiful.

[@teresakuhn7062]

Beautiful, excellent ceramics. Thank you for showing us the exhibition, as most of us cannot come to your gallery at the moment!

[@igorvkuznetsov3518]

Beautiful Pottery !!!
Excellent Video Production !!!
Прекрасная Керамика !!!
👨‍✈️✌️🇺🇸

[@shanemilehi]

Great episode. Love his work and your understanding of all of it

[@nedludd8633]

Camera person ! it would be helpful if you would show the base where it meets the ground clearly . Thankyou for the video ,lovely work .

[@ubipatumbi]

excellent ... very nice work !!!

[@solena1351]

Absolutely gorgeous

[@maankanimoda]

Jim Malone's works are like abstractions from the autobiography of a potter who treads on a personal philosophy with feet of clay.

[@hiitsmehereagain]

Your very cute

[@glenncambray626]

"temoeku"?????? Tenmoku Ten(heaven)Moku(eye),pronounce the word properly.

[@user-cy9kh7ir5o]

2h. Bla bla bla bla......