Mr. and Mrs. Tutti Atomic, by Kate Malone

A PROJECTTenTenTen commission

for the Mint Museum of Craft + Design 

at the Mint Museum Uptown

katemaloneceramics.com 

"I am motivated by a fascination with clay and with nature.

Transforming soft wet clay to fired hard ceramic,

then to a shiny glazed surface is addictive."

-Kate Malone  

Kate Malone is a ceramist from London.  Her art reflects her fascination with nature, often taking the shapes of berries, pumpkins, and other plants.  Malone works in large-scale public projects, one-of-a-kind ceramics and playful, smaller pieces. 

Online Resources 

• The artist's website 
• Malone's profile from the Adrian Sassoon Gallery.
• One of Kate Malone's long-time collectors and fans is British clothing and textile designer Zandra Rhodes. Check out this article about Rhodes and her collecting habits from Crafts magazine. (Full disclosure: Rhodes work is in the Mint holdings too.) 
• Ceramic Review interview, 2015
• View more press and articles about the artist here. 

Print Resources from the Mint Museum Library

• Jackson, Lesley. Malone, Kate. Kate Malone: a Book of Pots. Woodstock: Overlook Press, 2003.  

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Created by Madelyn Riggs. Intern for The Mint Museum Library