Contemporary Artist
Blurring the lines between art and craft, Gail uses porcelain as her canvas.
Storytelling, unique plates for display or art installations, and sculptural vessels that hold water. Sketchbook observations are drawn, etched, and painted on to the porcelain under clear glaze. Her themes include art history inspirations, relationships, siblings, artists, and musicians.
Colourful and irreverent with heart.
Selected Exhibitions
2025 Young Art award - Cynthia Corbett Gallery 16 January
Exhibitionist Hotel Kensington, London
2025 London Art Fair Islington with Milly Green of The Art Movement Jan 22-26
Affordable Art Fair New York - 25 W 18th Street, New York 10011 19 - 23 March 2025
2024 Affordable Art fair Battersea Park 16-20 October 2024
British Art Fair ay Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea, with Art-Movement 26-29 Sept
Narrative vessels at Contemporary Ceramics Centre
Messums West, Tisbury Wiltshire ‘Plates with Purpose’ 2 March - 29 April
2023 The Drawing Show at The Bridewell Studios & Gallery 21 July - 13 August 2023
Byard Art Gallery Cambridge 27 May - 25 June 2023
The Sanctuary Gallery Newnham-on-Severn. Gloucestershire
2023 Saga Exceptional Article Spring Flowers Ceramics by Joy Archer.
2023 Contemporary Ceramics New Members Exhibition. WC1B 3BF
2022-2023 Objetd’Emotion
2022 Winner 3D prize at Wales Contemporary and @OxoGallery London
2022 At the Decorative Art Fair with Ruup&Form. Oct
2022 Solstice Group Exhibition, The Sanctuary Gallery Nov
2022 Wells Art Contemporary art installation. Refugee plates, Wells Cathedral South Transept. August 2022
2021 Selected member of the Craft Potters Association
2021 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Sound Spells - pianist painting.
2021 Exhibiting at Silson Contemporary Art, Harrogate
2021 ‘Figurative Art Now’, Mall Galleries, FBA, online exhibition
2021 Winner of the Response to Lockdown category. London Potters
Instagram Video about Mishima inlay decorating technique
Gail Altschuler
Gail began her career as a silkscreen printer, printing large, abstract, colourful works on paper, that are used for interior design in hotels and offices.
These works are found in corporate collections in Europe, USA, South Africa, Japan, and the UK. Sold by art consultants 1985-2005.
Besides selling her work through galleries, art consultants and exhibitions, she teaches adults, teens and children.
Gail teaches, drawing, painting, art history, and hand-built ceramics, from her home studio.
She teaches art and art history lessons weekly, online, on zoom.
Gail studied at The Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam.
She has a PGCE and MA in Art and Design Education, from the Institute of Education, University of London.
She has exhibited at the The Contemporary Ceramic Centre opposite the British Museum, at the Icehouse and Orangery in Holland Park, The Kiln Theatre Kilburn,
Lauderdale House in Highgate, London and at The Woman’s Art Collection (Murray Edwards) in Cambridge, UK.
She is represented on the artuk.org website.
Memberships
Testimonial
Friday, 24 Feb 2023
My name is Joy and I am the Homes editor for Saga (Saga publishes for the affluent 55+ market and currently has the highest circulated magazine in the UK).
I popped into the Contemporary Ceramics Gallery last week and I fell in love with your pots – I am about to publish a feature on makers and spring flowers. Attached is one example of an image of your pots I captured.
Joy Archer, Channel Editor, Interiors, at Exceptional.com Joy.Archer@saga.co.uk