Gordon Baldwin: Works 1971 – 2003 at Corvi-Mora, London, 2021
Spring Form, 2002, Earthenware, 41 x 22 x 52 cm, 16.1 x 8.6 x 20.4 inches 
Rocking Piece, 1971, Earthenware, 49 x 50 x 14 cm, 19.2 x 19.8 x 5.5 inches 
Painting in the Form of a Bowl, 1985, Earthenware, 38 x 46 x 41 cm, 14.9 x 18.1 x 16.1 inches 
Vessel from the Seferis Series, 1977, Stoneware, 47 x 23 x 12 cm, 18.4 x 9 x 4.7 inches 
Avis, 1983, Earthenware, 41 x 28 x 20 cm, 16.1 x 11 x 7.8 inches 
Tall Standing Form, 1985, Earthenware, 100 x 40 x 19 cm, 39.3x 15.7 x 7.4 inches 
Painting in the Form of a Bowl, 1986, Earthenware, 22.5 x 32 x 32 cm, 8.8 x 12.5 x 12.5 inches 
Long Spout, 1988, Earthenware, 78 x 38 x 13 cm, 30.7 x 14.9 x 5.1 inches 
Developed Bottle, 1989, Earthenware, 47 x 41 x 15 cm, 18.5 x 16.1 x 5.9 inches 
Vessel from the Place of Stones, Earthenware, 41 x 53 x 23 cm, 16.1 x 20.8 x 9 inches 
Winged Abstract Vessel, 1997, Earthenware, 22.5 x 32 x 32 cm, 8.8 x 12.5 x 12.5 inches 
Vessel with a Cross, 1998, Earthenware, 23 x 39 x 33 cm, 9 x 15.3 x 12.9 inches
Gordon Baldwin: Works 1971 – 2003 is on view at Corvi-Mora, London
November 11 – December 18, 2021
Tommaso Corvi-Mora is pleased to present an exhibition of sculptures by Gordon Baldwin. Spanning over more than thirty years, it will offer an overview of Baldwin’s ground-breaking, genre-defying oeuvre.
Born in Lincoln in 1932, Gordon Baldwin studied at the Lincoln School of Art and later at Central School of Art and Design. His early work featured functional stoneware and tin-glazed earthenware vessels, thrown on the wheel and assembled. As his artistic vision matured, he began hand-building and engaged with the varied and complex discourse around contemporary sculpture of the ‘60s and ‘70s.
Over the decades his practice has combined a free and unbridled development of three dimensional forms with an exploration of abstract painting and mark-making. Most of his works could be described as four-dimensional: the sculptures develop in space while at the same time alluding to an interior dimension, the contained space inside each form. This further formal articulation encourages a connection to the history and language of studio pottery, while exploring the development of forms through space in total freedom.
While being present in many public collections both in the UK and internationally, his work is strangely absent from the conventional narrative arc of British sculpture.
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