John Ward

Exhibited by Offer Waterman

Material stoneware with black and white glazes

Dimensions tallest 11 inches / 28 cm

Place of Creation England

Status Vetted

About the Work

John Ward is widely regarded as one of the most important ceramicists working in Britain in the twentieth century. His elegant and characterically controlled ceramics are well known, and his vessels housed in some of the most important public and private collections throughout the world. His works are immediately recognisable for their poise and architectural balance, as well as their great breath of form and surface, characterised by his continued variation and exploration throughout his fifty-year career.

In recent years Ward’s popularity has continued to soar as new audiences are exposed to his breathtakingly beautiful and beguiling works. In 2016 fashion designer Jonathan Anderson showed Ward’s work alongside that of William McKeown at Loewe in Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach, and it is notable that for the front cover of Alun Graves’ 2023 book cataloguing the impressive collection of ceramics at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, the curator and author chose a work by Ward to grace the front cover of the book.

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