RAY MALLANEY

• Ray Mallaney - Ray is a ceramic sculptor, making hand-built decorative vessels for the domestic environment. His work is in corporate and private collections throughout the United Kingdom, continental Europe and the United States.
• Exhibitions
  Mixed Shows: 
  2004 Telos, Windsor, UK
  2002 The Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh, Hampshire, UK
  2002 Telos, Windsor, UK
  2001 The Start Gallery, Brighton, UK
  2001 Tempest-Radford Art Consultants - Exhibition of Featured Artists
  1999 South West London Open, Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, Middlesex, UK
  1997 The Lamont Gallery, London, UK
  1991 The Lamont Gallery, London, UK
  One-Man Shows: 
  1997 Dickson House Studios, Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey, UK
  1994 Knights Park Gallery, Kingston University, Kingston, Surrey, UK 
  1992 Dickson House Studios, Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey, UK 
  1990 The Richmond Riverside Room Gallery, Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey, UK 
• Commissions
  2001 Schroders International, London, UK
• Education
  Ray has an MA in the History of Design and a BA in 3D Design (Ceramics), both from Middlesex University. His Foundation year was at Wimbledon School of Art.

Statement
“My work is hand-built, usually coiled and is fired to a range of earthenware temperatures. I use a variety of decorating media, slips, underglazes, enamels and lustres. As a 'maker', function, however vestigial, remains important to me, as it gives parameters to fight against, as well as the final setting, which crucially, will be domestic. Over the years, the sources for my work have changed, sometimes quite radically: shoes in the V&A Museum; Moorish architecture; angels and wings. My forms change through using a steady set of basic components which recombine and evolve or resurface after years of absence, depending on the requirements of the piece. My latest completed set of work reflects research into The Tarot and shows my attitude to form and decoration, which sometimes seem to fight for dominance in my work. The next step with these pieces is to exhibit them and I am currently looking for an interested gallery”.