Dylan Bowen

Ceramics

Dylan Bowen has been referred to as the ‘action painter’ of British studio ceramics, due to the gestural application of slips to his ceramic surfaces. He is the son of noted slipware potter Clive Bowen, and his thrown and handbuilt dishes, plates, bottles and vases express his love for the soft liquidity of clay, with an emphasis on spontaneity of throwing, cutting, altering and trailing.

Dylan Bowen studied at Camberwell School of Art and established his ceramics studio at Tackley, Oxfordshire in 2002. Selected Exhibitions: 2019 Slipware, Association les Ceramistes du Bois Dernier Les Communs. Cormatin France (July) Slippe,. Contemporary Ceramics Centre. London (July) A Melodic Line. Twenty Twenty Gallery, Ludlow; 2018 Heavenly Bodies, Joanna Bird Gallery, London Pyramid Gallery, York Gallery Friedrike Ziet, Deidesheim; 2017 Slipware, Gallery St Ives Tokyo Painted Clay, Keramiekcentrum Tiendschuur Tegelen; 2016 Slipware, Cliousclat, France Slipware, Gallery St Ives Toky Red Barn Gallery, Penrith; 2015 Ceramic Art London, 17th - 19th April New Craftsman Gallery, St Ives, 28th March - 20th April; 2014 Clive and Dylan Bowen, The Oxford Ceramics Gallery Slipware, Gallery Top; 2013 Collect, Saatchi Gallery Ceramics Now, Contemporary Ceramics Centre, London; 2012 Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh Ceramic Art, London; 2011 Bowen and Bowen, Contemporary Ceramic Centre, London Slip, Ruthin Craft Centre; 2010 Ceramic Art, London; 2009 Slipware, Leach Pottery, St Ives Ceramic Art, London; 2008 Painted, Contemporary Ceramic Centre Harrow School; 2007 Ceramic Art, London Wolfson College, Oxford;