EDUCATION
1970-73 Ravensbourne College of Art BA Fine Art
1982-84 Goldsmiths College Postgraduate Diploma In Ceramics
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2009 'Crafted', Winchester Discovery Centre, Winchester
2008 'Keep it Simple', Black Swan Arts, Frome
2007 Potfest in the Park, Hutton in the Forest, Cumbria
2006 Winter Exhibition, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
2005 Tredegar House Ceramics Fair, Newport S Wales
2005 Summer Exhibition, Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne, Dorset
2004 National Ceramics Festival Hatfield House
2003 'Earth and Fire', Rufford Ceramic Centre, Notts.
2002 Southern Ceramics Show, The Maltings Farnham
2001 'Oxford Studio Ceramics' St Edwards School, Oxford
2000 'Handmade' New York International Gift Fair
1999 'Classics VII' Kortrijk, Belgium
1998 'Party Pieces' Connoisseurs Gallery, London
1998 Ikebana Exhibition, Takashimaya, Osaka, Japan
1996 Internationale Pottenssbakkersmarkt, Milsbeek, Holland
1995 'Smoking Permitted' Primavera, Cambridge
1994 'Studio Ceramics' Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1993 'Three of the Best' Ashdown Gallery, Sussex
1992 'In The Window' Contemporary Ceramics, London
1991 'Art in Action' Waterperry, Oxford
1990 International Ceramics Fair, Maaseik, Belgium
CURRENT RETAIL OUTLETS
Alexander Gallery, Brighton
Black Swan, Frome
Cecilia Colman Gallery, St John's Wood , London
Contemporary Ceramics, London
Higher St Gallery, Dartmouth , Devon
IO Gallery, Brighton
Ropewalk Contemporary Art and Craft, Barton on Humber, Lincs.
Spring Studios, Bequia, Grenadines
Sussex Guild Shop, Southover Grange, Southover Road, Lewes
The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle upon Tyne
Walford Mill Craft Centre, Dorset
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Coopers & Lybrand , London
Citibank, Singapore
Haworth Art Gallery, Accrington
JP Morgan Investment Bank, Singapore
Moevenpick , Geneva
PUBLICATIONS & ARTICLES
'The Ceramics Book' 1st & 2nd editions, Ceramic Review Publishing
'Buyers Guide to Contemporary British Studio Ceramics', (Crafts Council Publication)
'Smoke Fired Pottery', Jane Perryman
'The Potters Guide to Ceramic Surfaces', Jo Connell 'Slipcasting', Sasha Wardell
'Ceramics with Mixed Media', Joy Bosworth
'The Sculptors Bible', John Plowman
Ceramic Review No 148
'New York International Gift Fair 1999 - A Potter's
Experience', Yorkshire Arts (Arts Council Publication)
Spring Studios, Bequia, Grenadines
Tessa Wolfe Murray studied Fine Art at Ravensbourne College of Art followed by a postgraduate course in Ceramics at Goldsmiths College. She set up a studio at 4011/2 Workshops on leaving, combining her Ceramics business with part-time teaching in Adult Education.
She left London for Yorkshire to share a studio and work part-time for ceramicist Anna Lambert, then moved to a multi-discipline studio in Leeds to concentrate full-time on her own work. Throughout this time she supplied shops, craft and fine art galleries in the UK and made contacts in Europe through participating in Ceramic Fairs in Holland and Belgium.
It was also a time of productive collaboration with the Conran Shop, designing and making ranges of vases and lampbases which were sold in their shops worldwide.
A commission to make 20 vases and dishes for an Ikebana exhibition in Kyoto, Japan proved to be an exciting challenge resulting in the development of several new designs in her own work. In 2001 she moved to Biscuit Studio in Hove which she shared with ceramicist Kellie Miller. She is now based in a new studio in Lorna Road, Hove.