Adam Buick

Adam Buick
Large Intertidal Jar, 2023
Stoneware with Waun LLodi clay splash and a Nuka glaze
Height: 68 cm / 2ft 3 in.

Adam Buick
Massive Intertidal Jar, 2020
Stoneware with Waun LLodi clay splash and a Nuka glaze
Height: 85 cm / 2ft 9 ⅖ in.

Ceramicist Adam Buick lives and works in Llanferran, Wales. He uses a single pure jar form as a canvas to map observations from an ongoing study of his surroundings. Utilising stone and locally dug clay, Buick engages in a narrative of understanding landscape, and conveying a sense of place. His process is filled with unpredictability in using various glazes and firing temperatures allows for a metamorphosis to occur, a sense of change, just as we are changed and shaped by the world.

Paths are a motif that he uses to represent his actual and metaphorical journeys through a place. To understand landscape is to move through it, to give it context.

In 2001, Adan Buick received his BA joint honours in archaeology and anthropology at Lampeter University, and subsequently attended the West Wales School of Art in Carmarthen in 2003. In 2017 Buick was granted the Creative Wales Award.

Adam Buick has exhibited widely in the UK and Ireland. Selected solo and group shows include Atavism, Hauser & Wirth, Somerset (2019); Things of Beauty Growing, at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (2018) and the Yale Center for British Art (2017); Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London; Material: Earth, Messums, Wiltshire (2017), and Ceramic Art London, RCA (2012). His work is held in several public and private collections including The British Museum; Crafts Council UK; Chatsworth House; Ceramic Review Award; The National Museum Cardiff; The British Academy, and the Arts Council of Wales.

All works are for sale, please enquire for more information.