Contemporary Artist
Gail Altschuler C.V. BIO
2026 Exhibiting atSt. John’s Hill SW11 - The Art Movement
London Art Fair in Islington, The Art Movement January 2026.
2025 Affordable Art Fair Singapore, 13-16 November 2025.
Affordable Art Fair Battresea, 16-19 October 2025
June, July 2024 Crouch End Open Studios and East Finchley Open Studios
Affordable Art Fair Battersea Park 16-20 October 2025 with The Art Movement
At The London Art Fair with Milly Green The Art Movement ISLINGTON, N1 0QH
2024 Affordable Art fair Battersea Park 16-20 October 2024 The Art Movement
British Art Fair ay Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea, Sept with Milly Green ofThe Art Movement
Messums Gallery Wiltshire. ‘Plates with Purpose’ exhibition April
2023 The Drawing Show at The Bridewell Studios & Gallery August
Byard Art Gallery Cambridge.
The Sanctuary Gallery Newnham-on-Severn. Gloucestershire
Saga Exceptional Article Spring Flowers Ceramics by Joy Archer.
CPA New Members Exhibition at The Contemporary Ceramics Centre. Feb 2023
2022 Winner 3D prize at Wales Contemporary
2022 Decorative Art Fair with Ruup&Form Oct
2022 Solstice Exhibition, The Sanctuary Gallery
2022 Wells Art Contemporary art installation. Refugee plates, Wells Cathedral August
2021 Craft Potters Association
Selected member
2021 Selected for the Royal Academy Summer exhibition. ‘Sound Spells’.
2021 Silson Contemporary Art, Harrogate
2021 ‘Figurative Art Now’, Mall Galleries, FBA, online exhibition
2021 Winner- Response to Lockdown. London Potters online exhibition.
Gail Altschuler Statement
Blurring the lines between art and craft, Gail uses porcelain as her canvas. Storytelling, unique plates for art installations, and sculptural vessels that hold water.
Sketchbook observations are drawn, etched, inlaid and painted, under transparent glaze. Themes include relationships, couples, siblings, musicians and artists.
Colourful and irreverent with heart. Inspired by jazz music and art history narratives,
‘primitive and sophisticated all at once’.
‘Altschuler’s work is relatable and quirky.’
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
Contemporary Ceramics Bloomsbury
Testimonial
It’s not everyday an artist uses a Zoom meeting as inspiration for their art, and that is why Altschuler’s work is so relatable and quirky.
She considers herself a storyteller in clay and porcelain, materials which she uses for sketching her day-to-day observations. Expect anything from cats to commentary on refugees. Altschuler’s art truly reflects life.
Joy Archer is an Editor for Home Passions at Saga Exceptional.
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
