Phil Rogers Ceramics Exhibition 2017 Invitation, GOLDMARK

On Saturday 25th March Goldmark will be hosting its fourth exhibition of ceramics by the internationally renowned studio potter Phil Rogers. When, back in 2005, we decided to try and give modern British ceramics the gallery platform it deserved, Rogers was the very first potter we sought out to show. In the decade since that inaugural exhibition he has produced some of the finest work we have had the pleasure of handling: proud, roundbellied Tenmoku jugs; woodfired vases with burnt orange bodies softened by a Nuka rim; and an everexpanding repertoire of forms graced by warm, runny pineash glazes made from the embers of Rogers own fireplace. Now approaching his fortieth year as a working potter, Rogers has been putting exhibition work aside for the last eighteen months. Within that selection, new and developing styles have emerged from the experiments of throwing sessions, from recent interpretations of Korean Buncheong pottery to an ongoing project with Goldmark producing monumental eighty