Make Hauser & Wirth Spring Exhibitions 2024

26 May – 28 July 2024
​Opening Reception: Saturday 25 May 2024, 10 am – 4 pm

Jane Yang-D’Haene, Portrait, 2023Jane Yang D’Haene, Untitled, 2024

Beauty Lies Within
​Featuring Jane Yang-D’Haene

Rooted firmly in the tradition of 달항아리—dalhangari, or moon jars—‘Beauty Lies Within’ presents works by ceramic artist, Jane Yang-D’Haene, exploring her earliest recollections of the Korean landscape, her birthplace. Creating new visions of place and self through abstraction and experimentation, Yang-D’Haene’s new body of work expands on her earliest influences and extends across the arc of her lived experience, cultural identity and creative practice. She seeks to transform the emotional experience of memory into the physical.

Moon jars, historically made from two hemispherical halves of clay joined and fired to become a smooth porcelain vessel, have come to dominate her practice. Although derived from these polished objects, Yang-D’Haene’s moon jars are meticulously textured. The artist describes the historical framework that moon jars provide not as a blueprint nor as an adversary, but as a vehicle for contemporary experimentation. Her relationship to clay itself is similar: Yang-D’Haene explores and stretches its bounds without being restrained by its history.

Florian Gadsby, Feldspathic Angular Green Teapot, Cup and Platter, 2022.Common Ground, Installation view, 2019.

Hot Water for Tea
​Featuring Craig Bamford (SASA Works), Samuel Chatto, Florian Gadsby, Akiko Hirai, Matthew Warner

‘Hot Water for Tea’ celebrates the form and function of vessels that are central to the universal enjoyment of quotidian, domestic ritual. The exhibition also draws focus to the table, a place of gathering and community—the convivial heart of the home. Wood artist Craig Bamford’s generous table in walnut is the centerpiece, embodying the traditions of the handmade with an inherent sensitivity to the organic properties of his material. The domestic ware on view presents four distinct approaches: Florian Gadsby’s wheel thrown, highly refined stoneware teapots, bowls and mugs with their fractured, crystalline glazes; Akiko Hirai’s ‘Kohiki’ tea and tableware, a fusion of Japanese and British craft techniques; Samuel Chatto’s delicate explorations of the celadon glaze tradition; and Matthew Warner’s elegantly formed teapots and cups taking inspiration from 18th-century pottery and porcelain.

The tactile and expressive qualities of clay are brought to the fore in the hands of the makers who, through their work, explore the rich heritage of ceramic traditions, together with the notion of functionality and the social connotations of domestic ware. The humble vessel serves not only to represent our collective enjoyment of time shared around a table or a personal moment of quiet reflection but also embodies the history and stories of people, places and cultures. The aesthetic experience, taking time to appreciate things of beauty, engages all our senses and emotions and infuses our daily lives with a sense of mindful reflection and connection.

About Make Hauser & Wirth
​Make Hauser & Wirth is a dedicated space for contemporary making and the crafted object, committed to showcasing some of the world’s best emerging and established artist-makers. Make is a natural extension of the wider Hauser & Wirth gallery ethos, embracing art, craft, gardens, food and architecture. Since launching in 2018 in Somerset, UK, Make has presented work by over 80 artist-makers and provided valuable insights into material-led processes and the rich narratives of their practices. Works exhibited by Make embrace material truth, provenance, sustainability and the value of emotional engagement with the handmade. In addition to a varied exhibition program, Make has hosted practical workshops, discussions and studio visits to expand learning and engagement with makers and craft organizations.

Press Contacts:
​Manisha Bhogal, manishabhogal@hauserwirth.com, +44 7917 075313
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Make Hauser & Wirth Somerset

Stockwell House, 13 High Street
​Bruton, Somerset BA10 0AB

Make opening hours:

Thursday – Saturday
​11 am – 6 pm

Sunday
​11 am – 5 pm

^{Copyright and Courtesy Credits:
​All images courtesy the makers and Hauser & Wirth.}

^{Florian Gadsby, Feldspathic Angular Green Teapot, Cup and Platter, 2022. Photo: Florian Gadsby}

^{Common Ground, Installation view, 2019. Photo: Dave Watts}

^{Jane Yang-D’Haene, Portrait, 2023. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Bill Zules}

^{Jane Yang D’Haene, Untitled, 2024. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth. Photo: James K Lowe}