Ceramic artist Nicola Tassie initially studied painting at the Central School of Art but took up ceramics soon after completing her BA, establishing a studio in Hoxton in London in the 1980’s. She has a broad based practice which easily encompasses both wheel-thrown editions of functional pots - most especially jugs - as well as more sculptural works which explore the expanding precincts of ceramic form.
Her works have been exhibited in London at the London Art Fair; Collect: international art fair for modern craft and design; Fog design fair in San Francisco; Tremenheere Sculpture Park, Cornwall. She was selected for the Crafts Council’s, A Future Made programme and exhibited during Miami Design Week, 2016; and is now represented by Hostler Burrows Gallery in USA.
She has an on-going collaboration with the designer Margaret Howell, making limited editions tableware and designs for lighting.
She continues to work from her ceramics studio in east London.
Video by Matt Ford www.mattfordstudio.com
courtesy of Margaret Howell Ltd
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Selected Exhibitions
2024
‘At Last it Came into Focus’ – Warbling Collective, London
‘Nature Imagined’ – Object Space Atlanta, Georgia, USA
'Light Sculptures' - 8 Holland Street, London
Collect Art Fair '24- Jagged Art at Somerset House, London
2023
'Strange Friends' - MAKE at Hauser & Wirth, London
The London Art Fair 2023, Cross Lane Projects, London
'Abstract Colour', Marlborough Gallery, London
Collect Art Fair '23 with Jaggered Art, Somerset House, London
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2022
‘Grounding’, Jaggered Art, London
‘4’ Cross Lane Projects, Kendal, Cumbria
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2021
The London Art Fair, London
Nicola Tassie Ceramics & John McLean Prints, The Fine Art Society, London
‘Slip and Stasis’, solo exhibition, Standpoint Gallery, London
‘Sweet Dreams’, The Fine Art Society, London
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2020
‘Dirty Hands and Revelations, The Great Oxygenation Event’ RCA at Standpoint Gallery, London
‘Sculptural meets Functional’, Maud and Mabel Gallery, London
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2019
‘New Artists Group Exhibition’, Hostler Burrows, New York
The Wells Art Contemporary 2019, Wells Cathedral, Somerset
‘Collecting Craft’, The Holburne Museum, Bath
‘Collect 19’, Saatchi Gallery, London
2018
'Levelling Traditions', Hauser & Wirth, Somerset
'Perspective', Petronilla Silver, London
The Clay Store, Peckham, London
2017
London Design Festival, Clerkenwell, London
Paris Design week, Margaret Howell, Paris
Tremenheere Sculpture Park, Penzance, Cornwall
‘Collect 17’, Saatchi Gallery, London
FOG Design and Art Fair, San Francisco, USA
2016
‘Line Up’ touring to The Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey, Devon
‘ING Discerning Eye Exhibition’, Mall Galleries, London
‘British Craft: The Miami Edit’, Crafts Council at 1 Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida
‘The White Show’, Clotworthy House & Antrim Castle Gardens, Antrim, Northern Ireland
2015
‘Line Up', Flow Gallery, London
‘Collect 15’, Saatchi Gallery, London
‘Orchestrated Marks’, Quercus Gallery, Bath, UK
‘Grand Magasin’, French Riviera, London
2014
‘Mud and Water’, Rokeby Gallery, London
‘Craft’, solo exhibition, Standpoint Gallery, London
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2013
‘Bryan Ingham & Nicola Tassie’, - The Cross Street Gallery, London
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2012
'Made in London’, Contemporary Ceramics, London
‘London Design Festival’, at Margaret Howell, Fulham, London
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2011
‘Hatchet & Helve’, Standpoint Gallery, London
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2010
‘Hand Made in England’, Few and Far, London
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2009
Contemporary Applied Arts, Somerset House, London
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2007
Ceramics at St David's Hall, Cardiff
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2005
'Points of View', Standpoint Gallery, London
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Publications
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2023
Abstract Colour - catalogue, Marlborough, London
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2022
Financial Times, HTSI magazine, Double Act - 'We Speak a Common Language’ by Victoria Woodcock, May 14th
'4, Cross Lane Projects', Review by Sam Pickett, Corridor8, 06.06.22, corridor8.co.uk
NO.13 NICOLA TASSIE, Article 8, Holland Street, 8hollandstreet.com
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2017
Urban Potters: Makers in the City by Kate Treggiden, published by Ludion
Milk Magazine, Sept/Oct/Nov 2017 issue, text by Julie Boucherat
2016
Imperfect Perfect by Karen McCartney, Sharyn Cairns and Glen Proebstel, published by Murdoch Books
14 Dec 2015
'Tactile design: why we like things a little rough around the edges' by Kate Treggiden, The Spaces
2015
Country Living Modern Rustic, issue 4, text by Caroline Atkins
2015
Makers of East London, published by Hoxton Mini Press
2006
The Ceramics Book - an A-Z guide to 300 ceramic artists, published by Ceramic Review Publishing Ltd
2005
Points of View, by Geoffrey Quilley, Standpoint, London / Ceramics: Art and Perception International, issue 60
1999
Painted Ceramics: Colour and Imagery on Clay, by Brenda Pegrum, published by The Crowood Press
1992
Freeing the Spirit, Crafts magazine, May/June
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Awards
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2023
Selected maker for the British Ceramics Biennial Festival, Stoke on Trent
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2016
Selected maker for the International Maker Showcase ‘Future Made’ Crafts Council of England
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1991
Visual Arts Production Award (ceramic), Greater London Arts
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Education
1985-88
Ceramics, Islington Institute, EC1 London
1980-83
BA [Hons] Fine Art [Painting], Central School of Art & Design, London
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1979-80
Foundation, St Martin’s School Of Art, London