Inspired by her Grandmother’s Willow Pattern collection, Rhian Malin continues the long historic tradition of hand-painting porcelain with cobalt-blue decoration. Her elegant wheel-thrown porcelain vessels are the chosen surface, created to stretch this tradition into the 21st Century. 

 

Taking a mathematical approach to applying each geometric design, each vessel is painstakingly divided up and mapped out by eye to highlight their tapering forms, resulting in a contemporary take on the much loved, and often nostalgic, combination of blue and white. 

 

Rhian now works from her studio on the Alscot Estate in Atherstone-on-Stour, Warwickshire. 

Having previously won support from the Crafts Council UK through their prestigious Hothouse Programme in 2016, she has since gone on to be awarded: Highly Commended Newcomer Award at Ceramic Art London (2018), 'Best Ceramics' at the Contemporary Craft Festival (2017), 'Best New Business' at The Great Northern Contemporary Craft Festival (2017) & Winner of Bils & Rye Emerging Potters Exhibition (2016).

 

Rhian Graduated from Camberwell College of Art in 2014 with a degree in BA (Hons) Three Dimensional Design.

 

Exhibitions 

2021

Focus on Ceramics, Cambridge Contemporary Art

 

2020

Making Histories: New Responses to the ceramics Collection, Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum, Warwickshire

 
 

Mixed Winter Exhibition, Cambridge Contemporary Art Gallery

 

 

Christmas Show, Bircham Gallery

 

2019

Artist In Residence at Chenggong School, Taipei, Taiwan

 

2018

Ceramic Art London, Central Saint Martins

 

 

Rhapsody in Blue, Hexagon Classic Design, London

 

2017

Christmas Exhibition, Calaviero Finn, London

 

 

Still, The Stratford Gallery, Stratford-upon-Avon

 

 

A Fine Line, Cambridge Contemporary Art Gallery

 

 

Pour Me, Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey

 

2016

Bils & Rye Emerging Potters Exhibition, York

 

 

Little Buckland Gallery Christmas Exhibition, Broadway Worcestershire

 

 

Bircham Gallery Christmas Exhibition, Holt, Norfolk

 

 

Gallery Top Christmas Exhibition, Matlock, Derbyshire