Kate Malone: Moving in a New Direction
One of the most important and influential ceramic makers working today has to be Kate Malone. Her work is held in major public collections such as the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the USA and she has become a global household name through her TV work with Love Productions and the BBC.
Malone started her long career at the Bristol Polytechnic where her tutors were Walter Keeler, Mo Jupp and George Rayner. In 1983 she joined the Royal College of Art on a three year Master of Art (Ceramics) course with influential teachers David Hamilton and Janice Tchalenko.
After the Royal College (and a brief time working in a railway arch on the South Bank of the River Thames next to the Festival Hall) Malone moved to Balls Pond Road in North London and established her first studio, built by her now-husband Graham Inglefield. Later on, in 2000, with Graham and their three year old daughter Scarlet, they spent seven years living and
