David Roberts, Vessel with meandering line, coil built & raku fired ceramic

Past Exhibitions

Since opening in 2001, Blackwell has staged contemporary craft and historical exhibitions.

2011

Blackwell Within: A Photographic Evocation
Display - Pilkingtons Royal Lancastrian Ceramics
MH Baillie Scott and CFA Voysey, The Lake District & Beyond: Arts & Crafts Houses and Furnishings
Blackwell Within: A Photographic Evocation
Mixed Marriage(s): Ceramics by Philip Eglin
Roger Fenton and Julia Margaret Cameron: Early British Photographs in the Royal Collection

2010

Aspects of the Arts & Crafts Movement
LawnPaper by environmental artist Steve Messam
William Morris: A Sense of Place
Beauty in Repetition: Metalwork and Jewellery, Junko Mori and Jacqueline Ryan
Aspects of the Arts & Crafts Movement

2009

Catching the Light: Contemporary Glass
James Powell & Sons of Whitefriars: Arts & Crafts Glass-makers
David Nash: Sculpture Installations
Making a Statement: Raku Ceramics by David Roberts
On the Surface: Contemporary Ceramics

2008

At Table, Part II: Contemporary Tableware in Metalwork and Silver
Fantasies in Clay: Martin Brothers art pottery (1873 - 1923)
The Spirit of Klimt at Blackwell: A focused supporting display to the Gustav Klimt exhibition at Tate Liverpool
Juxtaposition: New work by Kate Schuricht and Mizuho Koizumi
At Table: Part I Contemporary Ceramics Tableware
Michael Cardew: Ceramics from the Winchcombe Period (1926 - 1939)

2007

Seven Smiths: new work in metal and silver
WAS Benson: Genius of the Arts & Crafts

2006

The Synge-Craven Collection of Regional Slipware
William Plumptre: New Pottery
The Flowering of the Arts & Crafts in the Lake District

2005

A Line Around a Shadow: Edmund de Waal
Kate Malone: Ceramics
Talwin Morris and the Glasgow Style
New Jewellers

2003

David Watkins: Encounters
Arts and Crafts Metalwork
Sense and Perception: Ceramics by Felicity Aylieff
Nine Colourways: Contemporary Glass

2002

The Pottery of William De Morgan
Landscape of Light: Recent Photographs by John Swannell
Kathe Kollwitz: Artist of the People

2001

The Japanese Craft Tradition: Kokten Korgei
Magdalene Odundo: Clay Forms

Image - David Roberts, Vessel with meandering line, coil built & raku fired ceramic 40cms tall © The Artist