Lorraine Bates
The Potter
Phone:
01902 883 429
Email:
Address:
159, Tipton Road,
Woodsetton,
DY31PA
A Bit About Me
Lorraine Bates’s work at Woodsetton Art Pottery is rooted in the traditional Black Country techniques of hand metal working with echoes from the ceramics of the Arts and crafts era. The stoneware and porcelain clays are formed using techniques of throwing, hand- building and casting to make pieces with a use, whilst the long kiln firings ensure that each glaze effect is unique.
Lorraine trained at Bath Academy of Art, studying under, John Colbeck, Eduardo Paolozzi, John Ford, Les Sharpe, Jill Radford, Elizabeth Frayling, and visiting lecturers John Leach, Michael Casson, Andrew McGarva, Felicity Aylieff, Sasha Wardell, Joanna Costantinidis.
She spent 8 years working in The Potteries in Stoke on Trent before setting up a studio alongside her family's firm of pewterers in Woodsetton.
She regularly exhibits work and is a past chairperson of The Midlands Potters Association.
Exhibitions
Awards
Winning Product Design Awards British Jewellery and Giftware Federation 1984, 85, 86, 88, 1990.
Solo Exhibitions
Red House Glass Cone, Stourbridge "GEOPARK 2019"
3D Gallery, Bristol
Haymakers Gallery, Hay-on-Wye
Winterbourne House & Botanic Garden
Number 8 Gallery, Pershore 2014 & 2016
Keswick Museum and Art Gallery
Middleport Pottery, Burslem, Stoke
Work For Collections
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Royal Airforce Museum, Hendon
Musea Brugges Belgium Victoria & Albert Museum, London Keswick Museum & Art Gallery, Cumbria
Group Exhibitions
"Burnt Offerings" The Pound Arts Centre, Corsham, Wiltshire, April/May 2019
Centre Gallery, London.
Houses of Parliament, London
R.B.S.A. Gallery, Birmingham
Gladstone Museum, Stoke
Victoria & Albert Museum Shop alongside “Art Nouveau 1819-1914” 2000
Harrogate Design
The NEC Spring and Autumn Fairs Birmingham
Birmingham Botanical Gardens
Steam Gallery, Beer
Red House Glass Cone, Wordsley
Pots At The Hall, Himley Hall, Dudley
The National Centre for Craft and Design, Lincolnshire
Woodbridge Gallery, Moseley
Leicester Museum & Art Gallery
Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery
Atrium Gallery, Milton Keynes
Barewall Gallery, Burslem
The Spectacle Works, Birmingham
The Greenwood Centre, Ironbridge
Potfest, Bakewell
Creative Cohesive, Wolverhampton
Kelmscott Manor, The Home of William Morris, Oxfordshire.
“Potfest” Cumbria 2014/15 & 2018
Worcester Museum and Art Gallery "Crafts for Christmas" 2014 & 2016
Worcester Cathedral "All Fired Up 2018"
