Walter Keeler
Born in Middlesex, 1942
Lives in Wales
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- Solo Exhibitions
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2016
Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool
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2014
Ruthin Craft Centre, The Centre for the Applied Arts, Ruthin
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2011
Bevere Gallery, Worcester
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2008
“Walter Keeler: An Artist's Selection”, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
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2007
Candover Gallery, Alresford, Hants
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales -
2006
“Pots for Flowers”, Gallery Nine, Bath
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2004
Ruthin Craft Centre & City Art Gallery Leicester & tour
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2002
Contemporary Ceramics, London
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2000
“Timelight”, Derek Topp Gallery, Derbyshire
Candover Gallery, Hampshire -
1999
“Walter Keeler: Ceramics in Space”, Peter’s Barn Gallery, Sussex
Contemporary Applied Arts, London -
1998
“Showcase”, Crafts Council Gallery Shop, London
“Ink and Crocus”, Galerie Marianne Heller, Heidelberg, Germany -
1997
Brook Street Gallery, Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire
Ballenberg, Switzerland -
1995
Walter Keeler: Salt Glazed Ceramics, Rufford Craft Centre, Nottinghamshire
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1994
Crafts Council Shop at the V&A, London
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1993
“Saltglaze”, The Craft Centre and Design Gallery, Leeds
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1991
Oxford Gallery, Oxford
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1990
Wako Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
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1989
Contemporary Applied Arts, London
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1988
Monmouth Museum, Monmouth
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1987
Gryphon Gallery, Grosse Pointe, Detroit MI, USA
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1986
Crafts Council Shop at the V&A, London
Butler House, Kilkenny, Eire -
1985
“Ceramic Series”, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth
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1983
“Showcase”, National Museum of Wales
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1982
Craftsman Potter Shop, London
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1980
“Saltglazed Stoneware”, Century Galleries, Henley-on-Thames
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1972
Scopas Gallery, Henley-on-Thames
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- Two Person Exhibitions
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2018
“Flora”, Dorota Jurczak & Walter Keeler, Corvi-Mora, London
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- Group Exhibitions
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2014
"Vivarium", Corvi-Mora, London
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2013
Covi-Mora, London
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2012
Adrian Sassoon, Art Antiques London, Kensington Gardens, London
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2011
Adrian Sassoon, Art Antiques London, Kensington Gardens, London
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2010
Adrian Sassoon, London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London
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2009
“Inspired by The Wallace Collection”, The International Ceramics Fair & Seminar, London
“Welsh Table”, The Ruthin Craft Centre Galleries, Ruthin
“Age of Experience”, The Ruthin Craft Centre Galleries, Ruthin -
2008
“Walter Keeler & Takashi Yasuda”, Gallery at Bevere, Worcester
Adrian Sassoon, International Ceramics Fair & Seminar, London
“Walter Keeler, An Artist’s Selection”, Glyn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
Adrian Sassoon, London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London -
2007
Adrian Sassoon, International Ceramics Fair & Seminar, London
Adrian Sassoon, London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London -
2006
Adrian Sassoon, International Ceramics Fair & Seminar, London
Adrian Sassoon, London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London
“To Hold”, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin, Eire -
2005
Adrian Sassoon, International Ceramics Fair & Seminar, London
Functional Form Now, Galerie Besson, London
Adrian Sassoon, London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London
Table Manners, Crafts Council Gallery, London & tour -
2003
“Modern Ceramic Art from an International Perspective”, Museum of Modern Art, Gifu, Japan
Adrian Sassoon, International Ceramics Fair & Seminar, London
Adrian Sassoon, ART2003, Business Design Centre, London -
2002
Adrian Sassoon, ART2002, Business Design Centre, London
“Walter Keeler and Colin Pearson”, Centrum Goed Werk, Sulte, Belgium
“Mugs as Celebratory Vessels”, The Craft Centre and Design Gallery, Leeds -
2001
“Jerwood Shortlist Exhibition”, Crafts Council, London & Tour
Contemporary Applied Art, Sotheby’s, London
Adrian Sassoon, ART2001, Business Design Centre, London
“Feats of Clay”, Victoria and Albert Museum, London -
2000
Adrian Sassoon, ART2000, Business Design Centre, London
“Three Decades: Objects selected from the Crafts Council Collection 1972-1999”, London, Middlesborough, Bexhill-on-Sea, Swansea
Adrian Sassoon, The Fine Art and Antiques Fair, Olympia, London
“Firing Imagination”, Brazil. The British Council (catalogue)
Mashiko Sogo Gymnasium, Mashiko, Hagg-Gun, Tochigi-Ken, Japan
“British Ceramics 2000.dk”, Keramikmuseet, Grimmerhus, Denmark
“Crosscurrents”, Freehand, Los Angeles, USA
“Walter Keeler and Michael Casson”, Worksop Gallery, Chepstow -
1999
Adrian Sassoon, ART99, Business Design Centre, London
“(Un)Limited”, Crafts Council Gallery, London
Adrian Sassoon, The Fine Art and Antiques Fair, Olympia, London
“Connections”, Rufford Craft Centre, Nottinghamshire
“Salt and Soda”, The City Gallery, Leicester
“Harrow: The First Decade 1963-74”, the staff, Alpha House, Sherbourne
“The Cat Scratched Little Johnny”, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth
Adrian Sassoon, The International Ceramics Fair and Seminar, London -
1998
“Contemporary Pots”, Contemporary Applied Arts, London
Adrian Sassoon, The International Ceramics Fair and Seminar, London
“Meltdown: works inspired by the silver and ceramics collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum”, V&A, London
“Table of Delights”, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Adrian Sassoon, The Fine Art and Antiques Fair, Olympia, London
Adrian Sassoon, ART98, Business Design Centre, London
“Meltdown”, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Contemporary Decorative Arts, Sotheby's, London
“Made in Clay”, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, USA
“Six Ceramicists from Wales”, Welsh Arts Council exhibition at Ceramics Art & Perception Gallery, Sydney, Australia
“Cool Clay”, Rufford Craft Centre, Nottinghamshire
“Three Potters from the Past”, The Craft Centre and Design Gallery, Leeds -
1997
Adrian Sassoon, ART97, Business Design Centre, London
British Ceramics & Glass Works Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
“Song in Salt: Visions and Traditions”, New Lines in British Saltglaze, Princessehof Ketamiekmueum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
“Saltglaze”, City Gallery, Leicester
Adrian Sassoon, The International Ceramics Fair and Seminar, London -
1996
“Soft Hard Hot Contemporary Ceramics”, Ljubljana, Slovenia
“Fired with Enthusiasm”, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
“Objects of Our Time”, Crafts Council, London & tour Belfast, Edinburgh, Swansea, Manchester, American Craft Museum, New York, USA
“William Morris Revisited: Questioning the Legacy”, Whitworth Art
Gallery, Manchester, touring- Crafts Council Gallery, London, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
“British Saltglaze”, Keramik Galerie Hilde Holstein, Bremen, Germany
“What’s Brewing?”, Art Commissions Gallery, London
“Fired with Enthusiasm”, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
“Salt and Soda”, Contemporary Ceramics, London
“Saltglaze Ceramics: An International Perspective”, Galerie B15, Munich
“Ceramists of Fame and Promise”, The Orangery, London
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1995
“Teapotmania”, Norwich Castle Museum & tour Manor House Museum, Bury St. Edmunds, Towneley Hall Art Gallery and Museums, Burnley, Callendar House, Falkirk, Paisley Museum & Art Gallery, Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery, Hove Museum and Art Gallery, York City Art Gallery, Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford, Swansea Museum, Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro
“Saltglaze”, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
“Biennale International d’Art Ceramique”, Jodoigne, France
Crafts Potters Association exhibition, Athens
“Walter Keeler with Lisbeth Holst Jensen”, Galerie Norby, Copenhagen, Denmark -
1994
“Teapots”, Crafts Council, London
“New Craft Forms”, Lillehammer, Norway
“Something to Put Flowers In”, Gibbs Gallery, Canterbury
“Pots for Food”, Manchester Craft Centre
“Studio Ceramics '94”, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Bettles Gallery, Ringwood, Hampshire
Candover Gallery, Alresford, Hampshire -
1993
“The Framed Teapot”, Pro-Art, St. Louis, MO, USA
“25th Anniversary”, Oxford Gallery, Oxford
Gestaltendes Handwerk - Visuelle Spiele, International Trade Fair, Munich, Germany
Juliet Gould Gallery, Fowery, Cornwall
Form and Function, Contemporary Applied Arts, London
Contemporary British Ceramics, King Alfred's College, Winchester
Walter Keeler, Craft and Design Gallery, Leeds
Maveety Gallery, Salishan, Oregon, USA
Gallery Desko, Disempel Kortemark Co., Belgium
“High Table”, UK touring exhibition
“Clay in Hand”, Portcullis, Gateshead -
1992 - 1993
“Teapot”, The Works Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
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1992
“British & Dutch Ceramics”, Rufford Craft Centre, Nottinghamshire
“50:50”, Collection Gallery, Ledbury, Herefordshire
“Having it Made”, Oriel, Cardiff
“British Art in Holland”, Galerie Amphora, Oosterbeek, Holland
“25 Years in Covent Garden”, Contemporary Applied Arts, London
“The Expressive Teapot”, Swidler Gallery, Detroit, MI, USA -
1991
“Ceramics from the 80's”, The Bindliey Collection, Crossman Gallery, Whitewater, WI, USA
Cleveland Crafts Centre, Middlesbrough with Takeshi Yasuda
“Colours of Earth”, British Council Touring Exhibition to India