New Areas: Contemporary Ceramics at Walmer Yard and Newstead Abbey, 2023

New Areas was a group show at two locations, Walmer Yard, London January – February 2023, and Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire March – October 2023.

Alongside works by Sam Bakewell, Gordon Baldwin, Alison Britton, Adam Buick, Simon Caroll, Bethan Lloyd Worthington, Bryan Newman and Julian Stair, and the Martin Brothers.

Photography, Jim Stephenson

Two separate projects curated by Tommaso Corvi-Mora centred around contemporary ceramics: both carrying the same title, they presented two views on ceramics in the UK. Talking about his years at Central School in the ‘Fifties – what is now Central Saint Martins – Gordon Baldwins says, in a well-known video interview: “… we did think we were the ones pioneering new areas in which ceramics could exist…”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exBjoomTCGs
Both exhibitions, titled “New Areas” after the above quote, aim to capture the same spirit of experimentation and excitement that is described by Gordon Baldwin: ceramics as an ever-evolving field of research and experimentation.