Here are a few images from the recently opened exhibition at Ruthin Craft Centre, North Wales I am taking part in. The show is titled Earth – Daear and is on from 21 January 2012 –18 March 2012. It is a selection of contemporary ceramics from Wales, exploring the vessel form, emotion and memory, poetry and history, and responses to landscape. Showing are?Beverley Bell-Hughes,? Peter Bodenham, ?Adam Buick,? Carys Davies, ?Anne Gibbs and ?Ashraf Hanna.

I am deeply honored to be awarded the Eisteddfod Gold Medal for craft & design 2011, It is a truly amazing event for me. I feel both humble and creatively inspired to keep developing my ceramics. The plates in the Eisteddfod question what makes us feel at home or what are we at home with?

The studio in West Wales cardigan.

Milk Cooler

For Gathered World, an Exhibition at the Aberystwyth Art centre Peter has constructed a functional object that operates as a hybrid of old and new, employing recycled found objects that form a relationship with Peter’s hand thrown contemporary version of the cooling vessel. Life cycles are suggested. Old objects are re-vitalised and assigned new purpose, while the newly made clearly acknowledges its debt to the past through analogous form and style.

Currently I am organizing an exhibition at the West Wales Schools of The Arts @ colegsirgar tilted Art & Utility. The aim of the exhibition is to bring together visual artists and potters in a mixed show of ceramic plates. Many of the artists and ceramicists have a national or International exhibiting profile I have also included recent graduates from New Designers 2009 and students from the college. The show runs from 4^th Nov – Dec 4^th. The exhibition for me marks the start of a personal aim to make utilitarian work.

A pencil drawing on board exploring the relationship between vessels and the body. This  drawing was exhibited in Spain – Figueres, as part of the Transitar a group show with Lluis Penaranda and Juliette Murphy two Catalan artists.

Exhibited at 2009 National Eisteddfod

Ymrwymiad is a sculptural vessel that brings together a ceramic cast of a human leg bone,model trees and comfrey seeds. The seeds are contained within the cavity of the bone creating a storage devise and cultural signifier. The meaning of this sculptural vessel is intentionally open ended for viewer. My motivation as an
artist & designer is to evoke connection and commitment that exist between the body and the land. For many of us today the links between the land are remote and increasingly virtual. For me I see a direct link between the body and the land, in the case of Ymrwymiad specifically connections to Llandudoch and St.Dogmael.

A small drawing has been selected for this years Jerwood Drawing Exhibition. The Exhibition will start on the 19th September – 28th October in the Jerwood space 171 Union Street, London SE1 0LN. Then will go to Cheltenham, Glasgow, Bristol, BayArt in Cardiff and Newcastle. The Jerwood Drawing Prize is regarded as the country’s leading award in drawing.

I have started to produce a series of small images printed onto luggage labels. The prints are boxed framed mounted on a white ground, placed off centre within the frame. The tile of this print is walker a recurrent theme within the work. A friend recently quoted walk and it will be solved I’m unsure of the literary reference but it rings true. The framed prints are £265 – 1/100 including postage. e-mail to place an order.

Bound up with the process of walking and drawing are the production of small sculptures. These wall mounted carved love spoons incorporating landscapes and drawing play with ideas of identity, nature and being at home. The sculptures represent a tension and struggle between the human agent and the land.

If you are interested in purchasing drawings or sculptures contact Peter at enquiries@peterbodenham.co.uk