Adrian Bates

Qualifications:

Proffessional Memberships: 

Memberships Craft Potters Association

Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen

Westcountry Potters’ Association

Cotswold Sculptors’ Association

 Cotswold Sculptors Association ‘Creating Spaces’, Malmesbury 

Exhibitions & Shows:

2024

• Potfest Southwest, Shaftesbury  (inaugural)-

2022-2023

• Cotswold Sculptors Association ‘Creating Spaces’, Miserden
• Cotswold Sculptors Association ‘Creating Spaces’,Berkeley Castle 

2020

• Doddington Hall Sculpture Show Biennial, Doddington, Lincs. 2020, 2022

2019

• Select Trail at The Clay Loft (Nailsworth,Glos.) 2019,2020
• Celebrating Ceramics with Craft In Focus, Waterperry Gardens, Oxon.) 2019-present

2018

• Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen Show, Cheltenham Literary Festival, Glos.2018
• Cotswold Sculptors Association ‘Creating Spaces’, Uley,Gloucestershire 2018

2017

• Affordable Sculpture Exhibition, Twyning, Gloucestershire 
• Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen Spring Show, Tetbury 
• Bristol University Botanic Garden Easter Sculpture Show, Bristol 2017, 2019

2016

• Countryfile Live!, Blenhiem Palace, Oxon 2016
• RHS Garden Rosemoor, Winter Sculpture Exhibition, Torrington, Devon 2016-17

2015

• The Garden Gallery ‘Truth to material’ Exhibition, Stockbridge, Hampshire 2015
• Borde Hill Gardens, Haywards Heath, West Sussex 2015 SIT Select Trail Open Studios Festival, Stroud, Glos. 2015
• St David’s Church Contemporary Ceramics Show, Discoed, Wales 2015
• Contemporary Craft Festival, with West country Potters’ Association, Bovey Tracey, Devon 
• Art in Clay, Hatfield, Hatfield House, Herts 2015-show ceased
• Art In Action, Waterperry Gardens, Oxon.2015
• Salisbury Contemporary Craft & Heritage Fair, Salisbury, Wiltshire 
• Potfest Scotland, Scone Palace, Perth 2015-present
• Potfest in the Park, Hutton in the Forest, Cumbria 2015-present
• Select Showcase, Cheltenham with The Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen
• Innovations in Ceramic Art, Cambridge with Primavera Gallery 
• South Staffordshire Guild of Craftsmen Wintershow, Middleport Pottery 
• Art In Clay, Farnham,Surrey 2015-2018
• SVA Christmas Open Studios, Stroud, Glos. 

2014

• Hand made in Britain,Chelsea 2014
• Potfest in the Park,Hutton in the Forest, Cumbria 2014
• Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Manchester 
• Art In Clay,Farnham, Surrey 2014
• RHS Garden Rosemoor, Winter Sculpture Exhibition, Torrington, Devon 2014-15

2013

• Potfest Scotland, Scone Palace, Perth 2013
• Potfest in the Pens, Penrith Auction Mart, Penrith 2013
• Northern Potters Selected Exhibition at Creation Fine Arts, Beverley
• Northern Potters Selected Exhibition at The New School House Gallery, York