17 May – 13 July 2025
Gabriele Koch’s ceramics can be viewed below. Please contact us on gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or telephone 01308 459511 with all enquiries.
Height 34cm, diameter 40cm
Available to buy £3,300
Stoneware with brushed on porcelain slip, multiple firings at 1200°C
Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511
Height 34cm, diameter 40cm
Available to buy £2,860
Stoneware with brushed on porcelain slip, multiple firings at 1200°C
Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511
Height 29cm
Available to buy £2,100
Black stoneware with inlaid porcelain, multiple firings at 1200°C
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Height 30cm
Available to buy £1,375
Stoneware with brushed on porcelain slip, multiple firings at 1200°C
Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511
Height 27cm
Available to buy £1,375
White and yellow porcelain on black stoneware, multiple firings at 1200°C
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Height 31cm
Available to buy £1,320
Stoneware with brushed on porcelain slip, multiple firings at 1200°C
Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511
Height 27cm diameter 32.5cm
Available to buy £1,320
Stoneware with brushed on white and yellow porcelain, multiple firings at 1200°C
Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511
Height 44cm
Available to buy £1,320
Red stoneware clay with incised lines and brushed on porcelain slip, multiple firings at 1050°C
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Height 29.5cm
Available to buy £1,320
Stoneware with brushed on porcelain, multiple firings at 1200°C
Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511
Height 43.5cm
Available to buy £1,298
Stoneware with brushed on porcelain slip, multiple firings at 1200°C
Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511
Height 32cm
Available to buy £1,298
Stoneware with brushed on porcelain slip and solid porcelain, multiple firings at 1200°C
Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511
Height 31cm
Available to buy £1,298
Stoneware with brushed on porcelain slip, multiple firings at 1200°C
Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511
Height 36cm
Available to buy £1,265
Red stoneware clay with brushed on porcelain slip, multiple firings at 1050°C
Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511
Height 27cm
Available to buy £1,265
Stoneware with brushed on white and yellow porcelain, multiple firings at 1200°C
Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511
Height 43cm
Available to buy £1,210
Stoneware with brushed on porcelain slip, multiple firings at 1200°C
Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511
Diameter 44cm
Available to buy £1,199
Stoneware with brushed on porcelain, multiple firings at 1200°C
Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511
Height 43cm
Available to buy £1,100
Stoneware with brushed on porcelain slip, multiple firings at 1200°C
Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511
Height: 21.5 cm
Available to buy £935
White earthenware burnished by hand to achieve a tactile surface with a slightly vibrational appearance. The silken burnished surface is interrupted and contrasted with a worked-in texture. It is fired to 1000C.
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Height: 27.5 cm
Available to buy £925
Stoneware with brushed on porcelain slip, multiple firings at 1200°C
Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511
Height: 21.5 cm
Available to buy £880
Stoneware with brushed on porcelain slip, multiple firings at 1200°C
Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511
Height: 20cm
Available to buy £880
Stoneware with brushed on porcelain slip, multiple firings at 1200°C
Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511
Height: 26.5 cm
Available to buy £880
Stoneware with brushed on porcelain slip, multiple firings at 1200°C
Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511
Height: 17 cm
Available to buy £550
Stoneware with brushed on porcelain, multiple firings at 1200°C
Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511
Height: 16.5 cm
Available to buy £550
Stoneware with brushed on white and yellow porcelain, multiple firings at 1200°C
Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511
Height: 14.5 cm
Available to buy £510
Red stoneware clay with brushed on porcelain slip, multiple firings at 1200°C
Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511
Height: 12cm
Available to buy £495
Red stoneware clay with brushed on porcelain slip, multiple firings at 1200°C
Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511
Height: 13.5 cm
Available to buy £440
Stoneware with brushed on porcelain slip, multiple firings at 1200°C
Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511
Height: 13.5 cm
Available to buy £440
Stoneware with brushed on porcelain slip, multiple firings at 1200°C
Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511
Height: 13.5 cm
Available to buy £440
Stoneware with brushed on porcelain slip, multiple firings at 1200°C
Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511
Height: 14.5 cm
Available to buy £440
Stoneware with brushed on porcelain slip, multiple firings at 1200°C
Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511
Height: 11 cm
Available to buy £410
Red stoneware clay with porcelain, fired to 1200°C
Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511
Height: 10 cm
Available to buy £410 RESERVED
Stoneware with integrated porcelain, multiple firings at 1200°C
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Gabriele Koch’s Statement
Although I grew up in Germany my initial desire to work in clay was kindled in Spain. Repeated visits to the interior had left a deep impression: an open desert-like landscape with simple horizon lines and strong earth colours, hints of Africa and early cultures next to contemporary artists like Antoni Tàpies and Eduardo Chillida, the organic architecture of Gaudi and strong sculptural forms of unglazed pots bearing the marks of fire on their naked surface.
There was perhaps a meeting of the ancient and the modern, the rural and the urban that led me to the making of simple forms, trying to integrate balance and tension, stillness and movement, expansion and the containment of volume, precision and spontaneity. The concept of the vessel form became central to my work, hoping to create associations with sharing, ritual and celebration, reminders of our humanity, our common history and connection with nature.
The inspiration for my current work came from looking at geological landscape and how different layers of sediment combine in rock formations. This led me to the idea of combining opposite materials like stoneware clay and porcelain. I continue to experiment with surface texture and colour, trying to express natural formations as for example recently observed in the Atacama Desert, or capture the colour of the Namibian savannah. I am exploring the different qualities of clay, celebrating the beauty of the natural material.
For this exhibition I have created a group of spherical forms including Moon Jars, forms which relate to harmony and peace. A second group consists of contrasting tall forms including Sentinels and Stones, which might evoke the idea of guardians and ritual, aspects of community. In addition there are more open individual vessels, some combining stoneware and solid porcelain, some also treated with additional porcelain slip, or porcelain slip only. All pieces are hand built and fired several times.
GABRIELE KOCH, 2022
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West Bay Road
West Bay, Bridport
Dorset DT6 4EL
gallery@sladersyard.co.uk
Tel. 01308 459511
Café Sladers
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© Sladers Yard 2024. Site by FER.