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Win 'Figures & Throne' by John Maltby
Back in March gallerytop had a John Maltby exhibition where they showed more than 50 ceramic sculptures. The show was close to a sell out and they have one last remaining piece, entitled 'Figures and Throne' . The charity they support is the Helen's Trust and they plan to sell 'Figures and Throne' and donate all the proceeds to the Trust. In order to make the sculpture potentially available to you and to maximise the charitable proceeds, they are auctioning the work through a 'sealed bid' process.
In order to take part in the auction you should e-mail them at info@gallerytop.co.uk with an offer by 12.00 midday on Saturday 7 August - the highest bid wins the sculpture. The retail value of the work is £270, but there is no lower or upper limit to your bid - so you could make a really enthusiastic starting bid of, say, £20,000 ........ (just a suggestion).
To remind yourself of John Maltby's outstanding status in British ceramics, see below.
Born in Lincolnshire in 1936, John Maltby studied sculpture at Goldsmith's College, London. He worked with David Leach at Bovey Tracey from 1962-64. In 1964 he established his own workshop in Devon. Over the years John has gained a distinguished reputation for his distinctive ceramics. He has won numerous awards and his work features in many public collections, including the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, The Crafts Council, London, The State Collection, Belgium, and The Museum for Kunstegewerbe, Hamburg. Solo exhibitions include the V&A Museum, London, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Beaux Arts, Bath, Seibu, Tokyo, Galerie Krempl, Munich and the Museum of Modern Ceramics, Deidesheim.
John Maltby is a member of the Craft Potters Association and the British Crafts Centre. He is also Advisor to the Leach Archive at Holborne and of the Menstrie Museum, Bath. Since 1976 john Maltby has made only individual work, mainly in oxidised stoneware, often with enamel glazes. Recently the work has been mainly sculptural about English subjects and each piece is an evolution, one from the other. They are handbuilt, with coloured slip-glazes, and are usually fired three times.
