Tessa Eastman
Education
2013-15 MA Ceramics & Glass, Royal College of Art, London UK
2003-06 BA Hons Ceramics: Upper Second, University of Westminster, London UK
2002-03 BTEC National Diploma Foundation Studies: Distinction, Wimbledon School of Art, London UK
1997-2002 A Levels: Ceramics, Art History & Graphic Design, Bryanston School, Dorset UK
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Le désordre en délice de l’imagination, the disorder in delight of the imagination, Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, Toucy France
2018-19 Strangeness in Nature: Ceramics by Tessa Eastman, Clifford Chance, London E14 UK
2018 Craft Emergency, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth PO1 UK
2017 Puls Contemporary Ceramics solo show paired with Michal Fargo, Puls Gallery, Brussels Belgium
Group Exhibitions
2019
2019 Fine Art & Antiques Fair Olympia, London W14 UK
2019 Cockpit Arts Summer Open Studios Holborn, London WC1N UK
2019 The Thousand and One Nights, Artual Gallery, Downtown Beirut, Lebanon
2019 Showcase at Collect, The International Art Fair for Modern Craft And Design with The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, London SW3 UK
2019 Art Wynwood with The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Miami Florida USA
2019 London Art Fair with The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London N1
2018
2018 Art Miami with The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Miami Florida USA
2018 No Hierarchy Just Harmony, Contemporary Applied Arts, London SE1 UK
2018 SOFA Chicago with Steidel Contemporary (featured in the Cadillac-sponsored emerging artist section), Chicago USA
2018 Material Matters at Dialogues Through Time, Wildt’sche Haus, Basel Switzerland
2018 Beirut Art Fair with Pik’d Gallery, Downtown Beirut, Lebanon
2018 Friends of The Kiln Rooms, The Clay Store, London SE15 UK
2018 Carter Preston Prize, Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool UK
2018 Ceramics at Doddington, Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire UK
2018 New Members Showcase, Contemporary Applied Arts, London SE1 UK
2018 Art Market Hamptons with The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Bridgehampton New York USA
2018 The Cynthia Corbett Gallery Summer Exhibition, London SW1Y UK
2018 Cockpit Arts Summer & Winter Open Studios Holborn, London WC1N UK
2018 Art New York with The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, New York USA
2018 Art Boca Raton Contemporary Art Fair with Steidel Contemporary, Boca Raton USA
2018 Collect, The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects with The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, London SW3 UK
2018 Art Wynwood with The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Miami Florida USA
2018 Paddle8 Contemporary Ceramics Auction, New York USA
2018 Art Palm Beach with Steidel Contemporary, West Palm Beach Florida USA
2017
2017 Art Miami with The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Miami Florida USA
2017 Vigorous Form, Ebor St, London E1 UK
2017 Holiday House with FBC London, Hamilton Terrace, London NW8 UK
2017 Tresor Contemporary Craft with Puls Gallery, Basel Switzerland
2017 Cracked, 50 Golborne Rd, London W10 UK
2017 Young Masters Prize with Cynthia Corbett, Gallery 8, London SW1Y, Royal Over-Seas League, London SW1A & Royal Opera Arcade Gallery, London SW1Y UK
2017 Cockpit Arts Summer & Winter Open Studios Deptford, London SE8 UK
2017 Honorable Mention at Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale, Korea
2017 Pour Me, Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Devon 9AF UK
2017 Collect, The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects with FBC London, Saatchi Gallery, London SW3 UK
2017 Art Rooms, Melia White House, London NW1 UK
2016
2016 to present, FBC London, SW1W UK
2016-17 Zetter Space with Paul Sayers paintings, London EC1 UK
2016-17 Craft Emergency, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth PO1 UK
2016 Bryanston Today, Mall Galleries, London SW1 UK
2016 Three pieces in 14th Oct sale of studio ceramics & design, Adam Partridge Auctioneers, Macclesfield Cheshire UK
2016 Bulwer Yard Open House with potter Robert Collingwood, Adams + Collingwood Architects, London W12 UK
2016 Emerging Potters Exhibition, Bils & Rye, Kirkbymoorside York UK
2016 Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again, Earls Court Project Rooms, London SW6 UK
2016 Open Art Spaces: West London open studios, London W14 UK
2016 Organism: Chelsea Fringe, Espacio Gallery, London E2 UK
2015
2015 to present, Pamono online design company, Berlin Germany
2015-16 Lost Utopia, Fitzrovia Gallery, London W1 UK
2015 Rupert Cavendish Antiques, London SW5 UK
2015 Place & Proximity, Austin Forum, London W6 UK
2015 Fresh at British Ceramics Biennial, Spode Factory, Stoke-on-Trent UK
2015 RCA Degree Show, London SW11 UK
2015 In Support of Eating, Sketch Restaurant, London W1S UK
2015 Chinese Finishing School with Preston Fitzgerald, London SW7 UK
2014
2014-15 RCA Ceramic Art London Student Shows, London SW7 UK
2014-15 RCA Work-in-Progress Shows, London SW7 UK
2012
2012-17 Jonathan Ross Christmas & Spring Shows, Gallery 286, London SW5 UK
2012 London Potters Annual Members Exhibition, Morley Gallery, London SE1 UK
2012 Five Decades of Harrow Ceramics, Contemporary Applied Arts, London W1 UK
2012 Gallery Number Nine, Birmingham UK
2011
2011-12 Bicha Gallery Show, Oxo Tower, London SE1 UK
2011 Bryanston Art Now, The Gallery in Cork Street, London W1 UK
2010
2010 Upstairs at The Rose, Rose Pub, London SW6 UK
2010 Cecilia Colman Gallery, London NW8 UK
2009
2009-10 Bicha Gallery, Bristol, Brussels Belgium & London UK
2009 Newcastlegateshead Art Fair, Bicha Gallery, Newcastle UK
2009 Bicha Gallery, St Gabriel’s Wharf, London SE1 UK
2008
2008 Bicha Winter Show, Wyndham Grand Hotel, London SW10 UK
2008 Bryanston – Past & Present, The Gallery in Cork Street, London W1 UK
2007
2007 Islington Contemporary Art & Design Fair, Candid Arts, London N1 UK
2006
2006-15 Old Gasworks Open Studios, London SW6 UK
2006-07 New Designers & One Year On, Business Design Centre, London N1 UK
2006 Kate Malone Open Studio, London N1 UK
2006 Art From Earth, Tower 42, London EC2 UK
2006 Les 4 Saisons – L’Automne, Beddington Fine Art, France
2005
2005-06 Step Closer & Step Even Closer, Gallery West, Harrow HA1 UK
Awards
2018 Ceramics Art + Perception Magazine Writing Prize, Bridging the Divide: The Poised Sculpture of Tessa Eastman by Ashley Thorpe, Sydney Australia
2018 Shortlisted for the Carter Preston Prize, Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool UK
2018 Member of Contemporary Applied Arts, London UK
2017 Member of The Royal Society of Sculptors, London UK
2017 Shortlisted for the Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Prize, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London UK & USA
2016 London Creative Network Professional Development Programme, Cockpit Arts, London UK
2016-18 Craft Emergency Award, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth UK
Biennales
2017 Honorable Mention at Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale, Korea
2015 Fresh at British Ceramics Biennial, Spode Factory, Stoke-on-Trent UK
Public Collections
2017 KOCEF, Korea Ceramic Foundation, Korea
2006 Gresham Private Equity, London UK
2003 Abacus plc. UK
2000 Bryanston Association, Bryanston School, Dorset UK
Teaching
2018 to present, Ceramics Tutor, The Kiln Rooms, London UK
2017 to present, Ceramics Tutor, Heatherley’s Art School, London UK
2017 to present, Sculpture Diploma Tutor, Heatherley’s Art School, London UK
2018 One day ceramics workshop, 22nd Sept, Making Space Havant, Hampshire UK
2017 Pottery Tutor, Parade Mews Pottery, Tulse Hill, London UK
2016 Ceramics & Glass technician cover, Royal College of Art, London UK
2015-16 Head of Pottery, Malden Centre, New Malden UK
2014 to present, private ceramics teacher, London UK
2014-15 People’s Pottery Tutor, Ceramics Studio Co-Op, London UK
2014 One day throwing workshop, Pupil Referral Unit, Redbridge Tuition Services, Barkingside UK
2013-14 Ceramics Tutor, Bermondsey Ceramics Studio, London UK
2009 Ceramics workshops, Abbs Cross School, Essex UK
2009 Ceramic mosaic community arts project with artist Honor Pinner, Darrick Wood School, Bromley Kent UK
2008-13 Pottery Technician & Tutor, Malden Centre, New Malden Surrey UK
2007-13 Artist in Residence, Richard Challoner School, New Malden Surrey UK
2007 Ceramics workshops, Community Focus, London UK
2007 Technician & teaching assistant, Credo-Creative Ceramic Designs, Kent UK
2005 Adult ceramics summer school assistant, University of Westminster, London UK
2005 Ceramics teacher and project organiser, John Betts Summer School faire, London UK
Lectures
2019 Crafts Council Hothouse Workshop: marketing & audience development, 14th May, Knuston Hall, Wellingborough UK
2019 Young Masters Ceramics Prize: Artists, Judges & Curators, 24th March, Ceramic Art London, Central Saint Martins, London UK
2019 Artist Talk, 12th Feb, Clifford Chance, London UK
2019 Professional Development Talk, 11th Jan, The Kiln Rooms, London UK
2018 In conversation event with Making Space Director Lynne Dick, 22nd Sept, Making Space Havant, Hampshire UK
2018 Young Masters Ceramics Prize: artists talk with the Cynthia Corbett Gallery at the Arts Club as part of London Craft Week, 10th May, Dover Street Arts Club, London UK
2018 Crafts Council Workshop: reaching your market, making the most of online presentation, marketing & social media, 9th Feb, Canada Water Culture Space, London UK
2017 Meet the Maker with FBC London: coinciding with the London Design Festival, FBC London look at the inspiration behind collaborations with leading artists & designers. The first in the series starts with FBC London founder Fiona Barratt-Campbell & award winning ceramist Tessa Eastman, 21st Sept, FBC London, Pimlico Road Design District, London UK
2017 Micro-organics: Rob Kesseler in conversation with ceramic artists Tessa Eastman & Ikuko Iwamoto, 31st March, Ceramic Art London, Central Saint Martins, London UK
Residencies
2007-13 Artist in Residence, Richard Challoner School, New Malden Surrey UK
Collaborations
2019 Ceramic architectural model for Peter Barber Architects, London UK
2017 Lucerne project for Italian design duo Erica Agogliati & Francesca Avian of Flatwig Studio, London UK
Internships in the studio
2010-18 Took on studio interns (2 Camberwell ceramics graduates, 1 Morley College, 1 Brighton, 2 RCA, 1 Richmond HND ceramics & 2 private students), London UK
Assistance to artists and at fairs
2014-15 Ceramic Art London assistant (4-6 April 2014 & 17-19 April 2015) Royal College of Art, London UK
2007 Brush work assistant to potter Sue Binns, London UK
2002-07 Full & part time assistant to ceramicist Kate Malone, London UK & France
2005-06 Part time assistant to Zandra Rhodes, London UK
2004 Assistant to Andrew Logan, The Glasshouse, London UK
Representation
London UK Contemporary Applied Arts
London UK & USA Cynthia Corbett Gallery
London UK FBC London
Toucy France Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste
Berlin Germany Pamono
Beirut Lebanon Pik’d Gallery
Belgium Brussels Puls Contemporary Ceramics
Texas & Florida USA Steidel Contemporary
Publications
2017 ‘Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale’, Ceramic Foundation, Korea (p92-93)
2012 ‘Tradition & Innovation: Five Decades of Harrow Ceramics’, Forward by Alun Graves & Edited by Tessa Peters. University of Westminster, London UK (p61)
Press
2019 ‘Masterclass with Tessa Eastman’, Ceramic Review, Issue 297 May-June (p68-75)
2019 ‘Tessa Eastman at Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste’, L’oeil, Issue 723 May (p112)
2019 ‘Tessa Eastman, Strange Nature’, connaissance des arts, Issue 781 May (p26 & 115)
2019 ‘Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste’, Beaux Arts, April
2019 ‘Collect The International Art Fair For Modern Craft and Design’, Exhibition Catalogue (p52-53)
2018-19 ‘Strangeness in Nature at Clifford Chance’ exhibition brochure, 17 Dec 2018-14 June 2019
2018 ‘2019-20 Trend Institute Presentation’, Interni & Decor, Dec (p197)
2018 ‘Art House’, Crafts – The Magazine For Contemporary Craft, Issue 275 Nov-Dec (p58-61)
2018 ‘Bizarre Beauty’, Ceramic Review, Issue 294, Nov-Dec (p18)
2018 ‘Making Space Event’, Making Space Blog, 14th Aug
2018 ‘Potclays – from mud to work of art’, ClayCraft, Issue 17 July-Aug (p2)
2018 ‘Human Hands’, Country & Town Interiors – Country & Town House, Issue 1 June (p27)
2018 ‘Young Masters at The Arts Club’, London Craft Week Brochure, 10th May (p53 & p104)
2018 ‘Colour in Ceramics’, De kleine K – The Independent Digital Ceramics Magazine, Issue 39 March (p49)
2018 ‘The Things to Come at Collect 2018. Eye on Britain’, TL Magazine, 21st Feb
2018 ‘Crafts Council Talk’, Crafts Council, 9th Feb
2018 ‘Collect The International Art Fair For Contemporary Objects’, Exhibition Leaflet (p2)
2017 ‘Holiday House London 2017’, Event Catalogue, 10th Dec (p76-78)
2017 ‘Inside London’s Newest Contemporary Ceramics Show’, The Architectural Digest, 17th Nov
2017 ‘Tresor, a new fair debuts in Basel’, Pamono – The World’s Finest Dealers in Design, 26th Sept
2017 ‘Meet the Maker with FBC London’, Belgravia Residents Journal, Issue 64 Sept (p21)
2017 ‘Cockpit Arts Open Studios’, Crafts – The Magazine For Contemporary Craft, Issue 267 July-Aug (p23)
2017 ‘After Nyne @ Young Masters Art Prize: Meet the Artists’, After Nyne, Issue 15 May-June
2017 ‘Young Masters Art Prize: Eyes On The Future, Echoes Of The Past’, Huffington Post, 15th June
2017 ‘Young Masters’ – Exhibition Catalogue, (p23 & p32)
2017 ‘Colour Duo’, La Revue de la Céramique et du Verre, No. 214 May-June (p8)
2017 ‘Sensual Clouds’, De kleine K – The Independent Digital Ceramics Magazine, Issue 29 May (p14-19)
2017 ‘Clay Talks’, Ceramic Art London – Exhibition Catalogue (p6)
2017 ‘Inspiring Moments’, De kleine K – The Independent Digital Ceramics Magazine, Issue 28 April (p28)
2017 ‘On the Cutting Edge of Tradition’, Pamono – The World’s Finest Dealers in Design, 16th March
2017 ‘Emergency Call’, Crafts – The Magazine For Contemporary Craft, Issue 264 Jan-Feb (p6)
2016 ‘Puls Contemporary Ceramics’, TLmag – True Living of Art & Design, Issue 26 Autumn-Winter Nov (p8-9)
2016 ‘Crafts Council Maker of the Week’, Crafts Council, 28th Nov
2016 ‘Craft Emergency 2016: Winners Announcement’ Aspex Gallery News, 25th Nov
2016 ‘Open Art Spaces’, London Live, 24th June
2016 ‘MP takes a spin in new education hub’, Surrey Comet, 20th May (p3)
2016 ‘Ones to watch’, Ceramic Review, Issue 278 March-April (p67)
2016 ‘The editing eye’, belle, Dec-Jan (p78)
2015 ‘In the Air’, Frame, Nov-Dec (p44)
2015 ‘Open Your Art’, Fulham Residents Journal, Issue 36 Oct (p16-17)
2015 ‘British Ceramics Biennial’, BCB – Exhibition Catalogue, 26th Sept to 8th Nov (p5)
2015 ‘Glazed & Confused’, The World Of Interiors, Aug (p116)
2015 ‘The Top 5 Designers at RCA’s 2015 Graduate Show’, Sight Unseen, 1st July
2015 ‘Royal College of Art Work in Progress 15: Ceramics & Glass’, Arts Thread, 3rd Feb
2014 ‘Behind The Scenes: The Artists’, Fulham Residents Journal, Issue 23 Jul-Aug (p9)
2012 ‘London Potters Member Profile’, London Potters News, Issue 150 Aug-Sep (p4-5)
2012 ‘Cork St exhibition provides a platform for young artists’, Bryanston Newsletter, No. 32 Spring (p5)
2007 ‘Emerging Talent’, Ceramic Review, Issue 226 July-August (p19)
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