Artists

Richard Slee

Born 1946, Carlisle, Cumbria, UK

Lives and works in London



Education

 
1986-88
Royal College of Art, London. MA Design R.C.A.

1965-70
Central School of Art and Design, London. BA Ceramics

1964-65
Carlisle College of Art and Design


Selected Exhibitions

2011
Postmodernism, Victoria and Albert Museum
Thing, Tang, Trash, The West Norway Museum of Decorative Art, Bergen, Norway

2010
Causing Chaos, Fife Contemporary Art & Craft
Richard Slee: From Utility to Futility, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Richard Slee, Hales Gallery, London
Knock Knock: Who's There? That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore, Armand Bartos Fine Art, New York

2009
Recent Acquisitions, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, U.S.A.
Our Objects, Glasgow School of Art and U.K. tour.
From Art School to University, Art and Design at Brighton 1859-2009, Catalogue and Book. University of Brighton Gallery.
Age of Experience Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales and U.K. tour (catalogue)

2008
Deviants, Crafts Council touring Exhibition, U.K. Tour.
Richard Slee, Recent Works, Barrett Marsden Gallery, London. (Solo) 
Masterpieces in Ceramics from the V&A, The Korea Foundation Cultural Center, Seoul and Hetjens Museum, Dussldorf (Catalogue)

2007
END, Danish Museum of Art and Design, Copenhagen and Bomuldsfabrikken Kunsthall, Oslo. (Catalogue)
Making and Meaning, Object Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Cult Fiction, Curated by Hayward Gallery Touring (catalogue)
Richard Slee, Garth Clark Gallery, New York. (Solo)

2006
Richard Slee at Barrett Marsden, Barrett Marsden Gallery, London. (Solo)

2005
Trans-Ceramic Art, World Ceramic Center, Icheon, Korea. (Catalogue)

2004
Richard Slee, Barrett Marsden Gallery, London. (Solo)
Panoramas, The Pier Arts Center, Stomness, Orkney, Scotland (Solo) 2004 "A Secret History of Clay" Tate Liverpool (Catalogue)

2003
Crafts Now-21 Artists from America, Europe and Asia, Kanazawa, Japan. (Catalogue)
SHOW5 Retrospective,Richard Slee, The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent. Crafts Council, London and The Hub, Linconshire. (Monograph)
Hypercrafting, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. (Catalogue)
Panorama, Tate St. Ives and Ruthin Crafts Centre, Wales. (Solo), (Catalogue)

2002
Richard Slee, Barrett Marsden Gallery, London. (Solo).
The Uncanny Room, Pittshanger manor, Ealing and Bowes Museum, Co Durham (Catalogue)
Sleepers, Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro. (Curator and Exhibitor)
Richard Slee, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh. (Solo).

2001
Jerwood Applied Arts Prize, Crafts Council, London and tour (Catalogue), award winner
A Grand Design - The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art and U.S.A. and Canada tour. (Catalogue)

2000
Richard Slee, BarrettMarsden Gallery, London. (Solo), (Catalogue)
Contemporary English Ceramics, Keramikmuseet Grimmerhus, Denmark (Catalogue)

1998
Richard Slee, BarrettMarsden Gallery, London. (Solo), (Catalogue)

1997
JICA, Seoul Centre Gallery, Korea. (Catalogue)

1996
Hot off the Press, Tullie Hose Museum, Carlisle and U.K. tour (Catalogue)

1994
Richard Slee, Garth Clark Gallery, New York. (Solo).
Richard Slee, Hering and Lehmann Gallery, Berlin, Germany. (Solo).

1993
The Raw and the Cooked, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, touring London, Oxford, Swansea, Japan, Taiwan and France. (Catalogue)
 
1990
Three Ways of Seeing, Crafts Council, London and U.K. tour. Retrospective (Monograph).
'Richard Slee" National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. (Solo).

1989
Richard Slee- Recent Works, The City Gallery, Leicester, (Solo), (Catalogue)

1987
Richard Slee, Hordaland Kunstersentrum, Bergen and Gallery F.15, Norway. (Solo).

1985
Fast Forward, Institute of Contemporary Art, London and Kettles Yard, Cambridge. (Catalogue)

1977
Richard Slee, Smith and Others Gallery, London. (Solo)

 
Collections


Arizona State University
Arts Review, London
Bradford City Museum
British Council
Buckinghamshire County Museum
Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington U.S.A.
Crafts Council, London
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Hongik University, Korea
Hove Museum, South East Arts Collection
James Mayor Gallery, London
Knokke Heist Municipality, Belgium
Leicester City Museum
Los Angeles County Museum
Manchester Metropolitan Museum
Middlesborough Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Art and Design, New York
Museum Het Kruithuis, Holland
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Muzej GRAD, Slovenia
National Museum of Decorative Arts, Trondheim, Norway
National Museum, Stockholm
Norwich Art Gallery
The Potteries Museum and Art Galley, Stoke-on-Trent
Norwich Art Gallery
Paisley Museum, Scotland
Shigararaki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
University College of Wales
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
York City Art Gallery
Whitworth Museum, Liverpool