Gabriele Koch

BEAUTIFUL, SWIFT AND BRIGHT

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.

Gabriele Koch 1. Large Atacama Sphere

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

Gabriele Koch 2. Eclipsed Sun

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

Gabriele Koch 3. Fenced Vessel

Height 29cm 

Available to buy £2,100

Black stoneware with inlaid porcelain, multiple firings at 1200°C 

Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511

Gabriele Koch 4. Furrowed Bell

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

Gabriele Koch 5. Spherical Form with yellow markings

Height 27cm 

Available to buy £1,375

White and yellow porcelain on black stoneware, multiple firings at 1200°C 

Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511

Gabriele Koch 6. Grooved Atacama Vessel

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

Gabriele Koch 7. Mottled Sun Jar

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

Gabriele Koch 8. Red Sentinel

Height 44cm

Available to buy £1,320 

Red stoneware clay with incised lines and brushed on porcelain slip, multiple firings at 1050°C 

Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511

Gabriele Koch 9. Moon Jar with Pale Coral Splashes

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

Gabriele Koch 10. Totem

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

Gabriele Koch 11. Vessel Form, Nebula

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

Gabriele Koch 12. Bellied Vessel, Milky Way

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

Gabriele Koch 13. Red Vessel with Groove

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

Gabriele Koch 14. White Sphere, Yellow Splashes

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

Gabriele Koch 15. Bronze Coloured Sentinel

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

Gabriele Koch 16. Wall Disc

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

Gabriele Koch 17. Grey Sentinel

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

Gabriele Koch 18. Small White Atacama Sphere

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.

Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511

Gabriele Koch 19. Furrowed Dimpled Vessel

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

Gabriele Koch 20. Small Atacama Sphere

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

Gabriele Koch 21. Furrowed Pot, Closing In

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

Gabriele Koch 22. Furrowed Vessel, Shallow Dimple

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

Gabriele Koch 23. Black and White Vase Form

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

Gabriele Koch 24. Small Vase Form, White and Yellow Clouds

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

Gabriele Koch 25. Black and Yellow Globular Form

Height: 17 cm

SOLD

Stoneware with brushed on yellow porcelain, multiple firings at 1200°C 

Gabriele Koch 26. Rust Coloured Vase Form

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

Gabriele Koch 27. Rust Coloured Vase Form

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

Gabriele Koch 28. Small Textured Bowl

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

Gabriele Koch 29. Small Bowl with Striations

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

Gabriele Koch 30. Small Bowl with Striations

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

Gabriele Koch 31. Small Textured Bowl

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

Gabriele Koch 32. Small Bowl with Fire Mark and Porcelain Rim

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

Gabriele Koch 33. Small Bowl with Porcelain Swirls

Height: 10 cm

Available to buy £410 RESERVED

Stoneware with integrated  porcelain, multiple firings at 1200°C 

Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511

Hand Building and Smoke Firing by Tony Birk

128 page full colour hardback monograph book. 27 x 22 cm. Introduction by Sir David Attenborough. Published by Stenlake Publishing. £20.00 + p&p.

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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