In 2010 he represented Ireland at the European Ceramics Context exhibition in Bornholm Denmark. In 2016 Jack received the international Janet Mansfield Memorial Award for 'exceptional work with soda glaze'. He was invited to lead the first International Soda-firing Festival in Fuping, China 2019. Jack Doherty was selected as a finalist for the LOEWE craft prize 2020.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2019: The Poetics of Fire, SKN Gallery, Xi'an China; Surface Matters, Portfolio Critical Selection Exhibition, Dublin Castle and NDCG Kilkenny; Transition / Resonate Space | Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall; Beaux Arts, Bath, Solo Exhibition; 2018: Grounding New Craftsman St Ives UK; Grounding: Vessels from the Land the Sea and the Sky NTUE Taipei ; Vessels from Grass Mountain, URS27M Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan; 2017: Living Space, Mashiko Ceramics Museum Japan ; Living Space Contemporary Ceramics Centre London | Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath; New work Biotop Gallery Toyko & Osaka, Japan ; 2016: Waypoint, Market Place Gallery, Armagh, NI Craft Month ; Waypoint, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh ; Wu, Solo exhibition, Dao Artspace, Xian, China ; Living Space, Gallery St Ives, Tokyo; 2015: Waypoint New Craftsman Gallery, St Ives | Beaux Arts, Bath; The Studio and the Sea, Gallery St Ives, Tokyo, Japan; 2014: Harbouring Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall | Brook St Gallery, Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire; 2012: A Place in the World, Garden House, Cornwall, UK | New Craftsman Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall; 2011: Jack Doherty, New Work, Gallery St Ives, Toyko, Japan ; 2010: Pure Simplicity, National University, Taipei, Taiwan; Jack Doherty; New Work Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, N Ireland; 2009: Simple Beauty, Solo Exhibition, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland.
COLLECTIONS:
Mashiko Ceramic Museum, Japan; Irish Contemporary Ceramic Collection, Hunt Museum, Limerick ; National Museum of Ireland, Dublin Ulster Museum ; FPAV museum Fuping China ; Belfast Potteries Museum, Hanley ; Liverpool Museum ; Princeshof Ceramics Museum, Netherlands ; Castle Museum, Nottingham; Cheltenham Museum, Gloucestershire; Ceramics Museum, Faenza, Italy.
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES:
2019 November Director, International Soda-firing Conference, Fuping, China; 2018 September - October, Artist in Residence, Cloud Forest Studio, Taipei Taiwan ; 2016 Artist in Residence, Mashiko Ceramic Museum, Japan | JMMA Artist in Residence, Fuping, China.
SELECTED LECTURES and DEMONSTRATIONS:
2019 A Life In Clay, Lecture. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford ; The Ambiguity of Function, Lecture. DIG Conference, Heritage Council, Kilkenny Ireland ; 2018 Masterclass, Ceramics Ireland Thomastown Co Kilkenny Ireland ; 2017 Fabrik, Freiburg Germany; 2012 Henry Rothschild Memorial Lecture Shipley Art Gallery Gateshead; 2009 International Ceramics Festival, Invited Artist, Aberwstwyth Wales; 2007 National University Canberra Australia International Ceramics Festival Queensland Australia ; 2005 South African Ceramics Society Cape Town and Pretoria South Africa; 2003 International Ceramics Festival Valetta Malta ; 2000 92ndSt Y Manhattan, New York | Hood College Maryland U.S. Virginia Ceramics Group U.S. ; PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS Honorary Fellow, Craft Potters Association UK ; Selected Maker, Portfolio Critical Selection, Design and Crafts Council of Ireland ; Chair of Ceramic Art London 2004 - 2015; Honorary Member RBSA.
PUBLICATIONS:
2018 Living Space Limited Edition Book, Editor Sarah Frangleton published by Doherty Porcelain ; 2002 Porcelain by Jack Doherty, published by A&C Black, London .