Curriculum Vitae
1960 Born, London
1978-80 BA Hons. Degree at West Surrey College of Art and Design under Henry Hammond
1980-82 Trained with Michael Cardew at Wenford Bridge Pottery
1983 Final year at West Surrey College of Art and Design
1984 Set up Studio at Lower Froyle, Hampshire
1996 Set up Studio at Church Farm, Shropshire
Exhibitions
1981 North Cornwall Museum, Camelford
1982 North Cornwall Museum, Camelford
1986 *North Cornwall Museum, Camelford
1987 Amalgam Gallery, London
1989 Business Design Centre, London
1990 Amalgam Gallery, London
Smith's Gallery, London
Interiors Design International, London
Bonhams Contemporary Ceramics, London
Besson Gallery, London
Chelsea Craft Fair, London
1991 Creative Eye, London
*Parnham House, Dorset
Bonhams Contemporary Ceramics, London
Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
1992 Creative Eye, London
Bonhams Contemporary Ceramics, London
Chelsea Craft Fair, London
1993 *Paul Rice Gallery, London
*Nancy Margolis, New York
*Beardsmore Gallery, London
Bonhams Contemporary Ceramics, London
St. lves Gallery
1994 * Amalgam Gallery, London
Bonhams, Contemporary Ceramics, London
1995 Bonhams Contemporary Ceramics, London
Gallery Gilbert, Dorset
Decorative Arts Today 1995, London
* Egg, London
Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Chelsea Craft Fair, London
*Alice Roden, Ireland
1996 *Ruthin Crafts Centre, Ruthin
*Alpha House Gallery, Dorset
Bonhams Contemporary Ceramics, London
*New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
Primavera, Cambridge
* Egg, London
British-Israeli Art Foundation. Jerusalem
* Roger Murton Furniture, Leicestershire
1997 Egg, London
Winchester Contemporary Art, Winchester
Bonhams Contemporary Ceramics London
*Clayton Gallery, Newcastle
*City Art Gallery, Leeds
1998 Beardsmore Gallery at ART'98 Fine Art Fair, London
Bonhams Decorative Arts Today, London
Sothebys Contemporary Decorative Arts, London
Modern Ground at Olympia Fine Art Fair, London
Sothebys Contemporary Ceramics, Tel Aviv
*Crafts Council at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
*Roger Billcliffe, Glasgow
*Alpha House, Dorset
*Oxford Gallery, Oxford
Contemporary Applied Arts, London
Furniture Co., New York
*Egg, London
1999 Contemporary Ceramics, London
*Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
*Furniture Company, New York
Egg, London
Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2001 *Galerie Pierre, Paris
Home Sweet Home, Stockholm
English Ceramics, Gallery Norby, Denmark
2002 Ceramic Modernism, Hans Coper, Lucie Rie and their legacy, Ontario, Canada
SOFA, New York
*Egg, London
*Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Unexpected too, Sotheby's, New York
2003 *Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
*Kaigandori Gallery, Osaka
British Council Touring Exhibition – ‘Contemporary British Kitchenware” – Group Show
2004 *Ishikawa Ongakudo Koryu Hall, Kanazawa
*ACROS Fukuoka Cultural Gallery, Fukuoka
*Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai
*Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
Ruthin Craft Centre, ‘Hands Across the Border’ – Group Show
* Clay, Los Angeles
2005 COLLECT, Individual stand, V & A Museum, London
*Contemporary Applied Arts, London
*Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2006 Alpha House, Sherborne, Dorset
*Showcase with the Crafts Council at the V & A
Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
*Marianne Heller, Heidleberg
*COLLECT, Marianne Heller, V & A Museum, London
2007 *COLLECT, Marianne Heller, V & A Museum, London
Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Contemporary Applied Arts, London
*Solo exhibitions
Public Collections
V & A Museum, London
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
Paramita Museum, Mie Prefecture, Japan
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
21st Century Museum, Kanazawa
Crafts Council, London
International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
The Arkansas Arts Center
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
Publications
‘Rupert Spira Ceramics’ Exhibition Catalogue, Japan Touring Exhibition, 2003 –2004
‘Rupert Spira Bowl’ Published by the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 2004
Awards
2005 3rd World Ceramic Biennale 2005 Korea (CEBIKO) - Bronze Prize
2005 Faenza – International Competition of Contemporary Ceramic Art – Silver plaque of the President of the Italian Republic
2005 International Ceramics Competition Mino, Japan – Honourable Mention