Elizabeth Raeburn
b. 1943
Public Collections
Barcelona, Catalonia, Museu de Ceramica
Birkenhead, Williamson Art Gallery
Bristol, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery
Leicester, Leicestershire Museum and Art Gallery (Contemporary Art Society choice)
London, Victoria and Albert Museum
Portsmouth, Museum and Art Gallery
Stoke-on-Trent, City Museum and Art Gallery
Deidesheim, Germany, Museum für Moderne Keramik
Porvoo, Finland, Porvoo Ceramics Collection
Rotterdam, Netherlands, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum
Seto City, Japan, Aichi Prefectoral Ceramic Museum
Stockholm, Sweden, SAF’s Kunstforening
Stockholm, Sweden, Handelsbanken Kunstforening
Taipei, Taiwan, National Museum of History
Winnipeg, Canada, Winnipeg Art Gallery
Selected Exhibitions
| 2012 | 4 Artists from Galerie Besson, Centre Céramique Contemporaine, La Borne, France Winter Exhibition, The Stour Gallery, Shipston-on-Stour, UK |
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| 2011 | COLLECT (represented by Galerie Besson), London, UK Winter Exhibition, The Stour Gallery, Shipston-on-Stour, UK |
| 2010 | Views of Venice (solo show), Galerie Besson, London, UK Smoke, Black Swan Arts, Frome, Somerset, UK |
| 2009 | Cup, The Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey, Devon, UK |
| 2008 | Classic and Contemporary Ceramics, Galerie Besson, London, UK Twenty Years Twenty Pots, Galerie Besson, London, UK Winter Exhibition, The Stour Gallery, Shipston-on-Stour, UK New Year Exhibition, John Leach Gallery, Muchelney, UK Terra Firma; Elizabeth Raeburn and Rodney Lawrence, The Courthouse Gallery, Somerton, UK |
| 2007 | The Jug Show, Galerie Besson, London, UK Summer Exhibition, Galerie Besson, London, UK 'Oil, Water and Clay', The Stour Gallery, Shipston-on-Stour, UK |
| 2006 | Raku Craft Focus, The Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey, UK |
| 2005 | Raku – new directions, Woodbury Studio Gallery, Devon, UK Galerie Besson at Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, USA |
| 2003-04 | David Leach – 20th Century Ceramics (touring exhibition), Bovey Tracey, UK Summer Exhibition, Galerie Besson, London, UK Landscape in Painting and Ceramics; Elizabeth Raeburn and John Hubbard, Galerie Besson, London, UK |
| 2001 | Solo Exhibition, Galerie Besson, London, UK Solo Exhibition, Rural Life Museum, Glastonbury, UK |
| 2000 | Harrow – The First Decade, Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne, UK 'Get Real', Romanticism and New Landscapes in Art (two year touring exhibition), ArtSway, Sway, UK Raku – Investigations into Fire (touring exhibition), Rufford Craft Centre, Newark, UK Solo Exhibition, Galerie Ortilles-Fourcat, Paris, France |
| 1999-2000 | Clay at the Crossroads: Directions in Contemporary Ceramics, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada |
| 1999 | Solo Exhibition, Chapel Gallery, Saltram House, Saltram, UK Millennium Mugs, Galerie Besson, London, UK |
| 1998 | Exhibition of Contemporary Decorative Arts, Sotheby’s, London, UK Gallery Pots, Part II, Galerie Besson, London, UK Spirit of the Times, The Bowes Museum, Durham, UK Meet Your Maker, The Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey, UK |
| 1997 | 42nd Summer Exhibition, The Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey, UK |
| 1996 | Picture and Pots, Galerie Besson, London, UK |
| 1995 | Solo Exhibition, Galerie Besson, London, UK |
| 1994 | The Tea and Coffee Exhibition, Galerie Besson, London, UK Earth and Fire, Rufford Craft Centre, Newark, UK Texture, the Black Swan Guide, Frome, UK |
| 1992-93 | International Invitational Exhibition of Ceramic Art, National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1992 | Courtyard Gallery, Cheltenham, UK Contemporary Focus, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada Solo Exhibition, Galerie Besson, London Galerie L, Hamburg, Germany A Christmas Exhibition of British Studio Pottery, Godfrey Far Eastern Art, London, UK |
| 1990 | International Ceramics Exhibition, IRIS, Porvoo, Finland Domestic Ware by Artist Potters, Galerie Besson, London, UK |
| 1989 | British Ceramics, Galleri Lejonet, Stockholm, Sweden Solo Exhibition, Galerie Besson, London L’Europe des Céramistes (touring exhibition), St Germain-d’Auxerre, Puisaye, France |
| 1988 | Group Exhibition, Candover Gallery, Alresford, UK Shape and Surface (touring exhibition), Gainsborough House, Sudbury, UK |
| 1987 | Solo Exhibition, Galerie für Keramik und Kalligraphie, Hamburg, Germany Lucie Rie and her Contemporaries, South Wiltshire Museum, Salisbury, UK Raku – Tradition and Innovation, Joint Exhibition with Keiko Hasegawa, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, UK |
| 1986 | Nine Potters, Fischer Fine Art, London, UK Solo Exhibition, Oxford Gallery, UK |
| 1985 | British Raku, Rufford Craft Centre, Newark, UK Museu de Ceramica, Inter-Raku 85, Barcelona, Spain |
| 1984 | Henry Rothschild’s Choice, Zenith Gallery, Nottingham, UK |
| 1983 | Contemporary British Art comes to St Paul, Grand Avenue Frame & Gallery, St Paul, Minnesota, USA |
| 1981 | Solo Exhibition, Dan Klein Gallery, London, UK |
| 1978 | Boxes, Casson Gallery, London, UK |
Awards
| 1997 | First Jackson-Stops & Staff Craft Prize, Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey, UK |
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| 1992-93 | International Invitational Exhibition of Ceramic Art: 2 Merit Awards, National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan |
Residencies
| 2004 | Norton-sub-Hamdon CE Primary School, Norton-sub-Hamdon, Somerset, UK |
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| 1996 | Ladymead Community School, Taunton, Somerset, UK |
| 1995 | West Pennard C of E Primary School, West Pennard, Somerset, UK |
| 1991 | Ascham School, Sydney, Australia |
Commissions
| 2000 | Raku Ceramic, Mural, Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, Somerset, UK (height 90 cm x width 350 cm) |
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| 1997 | Mugs for presentation at the book launch, The Quest for Longitude, commissioned by Harvard University, USA |
| 1994 | Raku Ceramic, Mural, Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, Somerset, UK (height 230 cm x width 315 cm) |
| 1993 | Presentation bowl for Alistair Cooke, commissioned by Harvard University, USA |
| 1987 | Coffee set, commissioned by Fisher Fine Art, London, UK |
| 1980 | Tiled shop front for Fine Shoes commissioned by Durstons of Street, Wells, Somerset, UK |
Articles
Angus Stewart, 'Elizabeth Raeburn, 'No man is an Iland', Galerie Besson, Classic & Contemporary Ceramics, January 2008
Sue Hoar, 'Elizabeth Raeburn at Galerie Besson', London Potters Newsletter, June/July 2001
Elizabeth Raeburn, 'The First Decade of Harrow: 1963 – 1975', The Potter’s View, Ceramics in Society, Autumn 2000
Delphine Laurent, 'Les rakus d’Elizabeth Raeburn', La Revue de la Ceramique et du Verre, p.113, July/August 2000
Marion Caton, 'Pot Crawl', Dacorum & Chiltern Potters Guild Newsletter, Autumn 1999
Elizabeth Raeburn, 'Elizabeth Raeburn' Devon Guild of Craftsmen Newsletter, Spring 1999
42nd Summer Exhibition, Devon Guild of Craftsmen Newsletter, Autumn 1997
Lionel Phillips, 'Artists in Somerset: Elizabeth Raeburn & Rodney Lawrence,' The Somerset Magazine, May 1996
Karen Demuth, 'Art Under £1000', Art Review, May 1995
John Russell Taylor, 'Around the Galleries: Recommended exhibitions in London & Amsterdam', The Times, 12th December 1995
Eileen Lewenstein, 'Review of Elizabeth Raeburn: Raku, CRAFTS', November/December 1992
'Up Front,' Ceramics Monthly, November 1992
Michael Casson, 'Elizabeth Raeburn at Galerie Besson 1-31 July', Kerameiki Techni, August 1992
Ditte Kronstrőm, 'Iris stärker sin image som Keramikseminarium', Borgarbladet, 6 August 1990
Arda Lacey, 'Fired by Raku – Elizabeth Raeburn at Galerie Besson', Arts Review 1989
Brian Seal, 'Former Chapel Setting for a Story of Creation', Western Gazette, 28 December 1989
Books
Tim Andrews, 'Raku: second edition', A & C Black: KP Books, 2005
Steve Mattison, 'The Complete Practical Potter', Quarto Publishing, 2003
Paul Rice, 'British Studio Ceramics,' Crowood Press, 2002
David Jones, 'Investigations into Fire,' Crowood Press, 1999
Tim Andrews, 'Raku: A review of contemporary work,' A & C Black: Chilton Book Co, 1994
Richard Zakin, 'Ceramics- Mastering the Craft,' A & C Black: Chilton Book Co, 1990
Pat Carter. 'Dictionary of Modern British Potters,' Scholar Press 1989
Michael Casson, 'The Craft of the Potter,' BBC television, 1977