Artist Statement
Concepts
The earlier work is inspired by the energy of natural forces - sea, wave and wind - which have shaped the earth from rock pool to mountain. The metaphor of the energy is seen both in the form of the piece and in the gestural brush strokes.
I always work with asymmetry, the manifestation in nature that makes for unpredictability, so that in the round each piece is always different from whatever position you view it.
The work inspired by the natural forces seemed to lead, almost unconsciously, to the later work where the inspiration is the energy of the living world.
Spiral growth - a basic blueprint in nature - feels to me to be itself an affirmation of life - and endless dance of celebration.
Influences
Flowforms, Piero Della Francesca, Bach, Miro, Whitman, Dance, Calatrava
Career path
Areas of work:
Exhibiting
Public art
Working with architects
Collections:
Various private collections
CV & Education
Solo exhibitions
2008 - Dancing the Clay, Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth, Devon
2002 - Main invited artist, Appledore Arts Festival
2002 - St Ives International Ceramica installation, Royal Cornwall Museum
2001 - Tropical Beach Installation, Eden Project, Cornwall
1999 - Lifting and Reaching , Tate St Ives, Cornwall
Group exhibitions
2007 - I Maestri del Concorso - In the Stillness is the Dance - installation, International Museum of Ceramics (MIC), Faenza, Italy
2006 - Spontaneous Combustion, Trelowarren, Cornwall
2005 - Exhibition chosen by Norbert Lynton, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro
2005 - NSA , Thompson's The City Gallery, London
2003 - Elemental Insight, New Met Office, Exeter and then touring
2003 - NSA Critic's Choice - Joan Bakewell, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
2002 - NSA Critic's Choice Exhibitions, Mel Gooding, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
2000 - NSA Critic's Choice Exhibitions, Charlotte Mullins, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
1999 - NSA Critic's Choice Exhibitions, Bill Packer, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
1998 - 100 Devon Potters, The Burton Art Gallery, Bideford, Devon
1998 - NSA Critic's Choice Exhibitions, Theo Waddington, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
1998 - NSA touring, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Competitions, prizes and awards
2007 - Arts Council Award , to enable transportation and presentation of ceramic sculpture, touring
2004 - 54th Premio Faenza - International Ceramics Art Competition Emilia-Romagna prize, International Museum of Ceramics (MIC), Faenza, Italy
2001 - Arts Council South West - major award , for construction of large kiln , Penzance, Cornwall
Publications
2009 - Article in la Ceramica Italy 'Tony Lattimer: il cielo in una stanza' by Franco Bertoni - Curator of Contemporary Ceramics at International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy
2007 - Article in DA Italy 'Four Artists in Faenza' - by Gilda Cefariello Grosso
2000 - Article in Ceramic Review - Tony Lattimer
