Chris Wight

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Born in Glasgow 1967, Chris Wight grew up by the sea on the west coast of Scotland. Bone china has been his material of choice for over twenty years. He undertook an MA in Industrial Ceramics at Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, where he was trained by designers and modellers from Wedgwood and Royal Doulton. Enjoying the technical challenges of working with this alluring yet ‘stubborn’ clay body he adopts ‘high-risk’ techniques to push the clay to its limits and utilises new technologies to create his works and discover new modes of expression with this most traditional of clays.

 

His output includes vessel forms, panels, screens and sculptures with works at both domestic and architectural scale. The largest being the chapel doors created for The Minster School in his hometown of Southwell, Nottinghamshire at four metres in height by six metres in width and comprising over 4,500 handmade bone china discs.

 

In the UK, Wight has exhibited at venues such as Sotheby’s, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Saatchi Gallery, in numerous shows in Europe including with Bernardaud, in Limoges along with group and solo exhibitions in Japan and Korea. He has also recently started showing work in the USA with Garth Clark.

 

Writing in Ceramic Review Judy Adams stated - "He is one of that rare breed of designer makers whose output transcends categorisation, who works with a range of materials, and shifts easily from traditional tools and techniques to the latest technology".

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