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Michael Rice

Coral Memories

September 12 – November 5, 2026

Opening on Saturday, September 12, from 6 p.m., in the presence of the artist.

Michael Rice, Blood Orange Coral Vessel, Petrol Blue Coral Bowl, Black Glazed Coral Vessel

Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in France by renowned Dubai-based Irish ceramicist Michael Rice. Through a selection of around twenty recent works, he explores the intersection of material memory and form in a series of sculptural vases that constitute a brilliantly radical body of work.

Michael Rice’s approach can be seen as a reflection on the boundaries between utilitarian objects and sculpture. Drawing from the formal vocabulary of traditional pottery - mainly vases, but also bowls and vessels - the artist shifts their scale, lending these forms a singular presence. An intensely colored glaze, with textures inspired by coral structures, metamorphoses their surface, accentuates their volume, and asserts their sculptural power. Stripped of their functional purpose, these pieces acquire a true sculptural dimension, where the memory of ceramic forms dialogues with the organic world in a resolutely contemporary artistic language.

Press release
Biography

At Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, Michael Rice has set out to present a single “family” of pieces, so as to offer a coherent, unified group of works to a public that might not yet know him. Often large in scale, his variations on the coral vases unveil a world unlike any other. This body of work follows on from a practice which, in the last twenty years, has assumed very diverse forms. At the start of his career, Michael Rice (born 1972 in Belfast) developed a keen interest in Japanese Raku. Since then, the artist has developed several series entitled Coriolis, Extrusion, Mandala or Binary, presented in Dubai, Singapore, Belfast and Brussels. Formally and aesthetically very different, the sculptures gathered in Toucy do not, however, create a break from his former work, but instead follow the same constructive logic that makes up the common thread of all his research.
Guillaume Morel
Journalist, art critic
Extract from the exhibition catalogue.

Michael Rice, Turquoise Coral Vessel, 2025
Michael Rice, Sand Coral Vessel, 2024
Michael Rice, Flame Red Coral Vessel, 2024
Michael Rice, Black Glazed Coral Vessel, 2024
Michael Rice, Sand Coral Calix 2026
Michael Rice, Sea Blue Coral Vessel, 2024
Michael Rice, Red Coral Vessel, 2024
Michael Rice, Black Glazed Coral Vessel, 2026
Michael Rice, Red Coral Bowl, 2026
Michael Rice, Sea Green Coral Vessel, 2025
Michael Rice, Luster Coriolis, 2026,
Michael Rice, Blood Orange Coral Vessel, 2024
Michael Rice, Dark Red Coral Bowl, 2026
Michael Rice, Luster Coral Bowl, 2025
Michel Rice, Teal Coral Vessel, 2023
Michael Rice, Royal Blue Coral Vessel, 2025

Guy Honoré

"Recent works"

November 7, 2026 - January 5, 2027

Opening on Saturday, November 7, from 6 p.m., in the presence of the artist.

Guy Honoré, Echo sur la voute (rose), 2026

The title of Guy Honoré’s new exhibition at Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste is taken from Chant de résurrection, a work for organ by the composer Jean-Louis Florentz. For his second solo exhibition in Toucy, the French ceramic artist, born in Beauvais in 1966, continues to develop a distinctive body of work in which ceramics become the medium for a free- flowing, graphic and colourful pictorial language.

Guy Honoré’s artistic journey is shaped by a fruitful dialogue between tradition and emancipation. His work is rooted in the world of France’s great porcelain manufactories, where he spent many years working in the workshop. There, he developed an intimate understanding of materials and clays, of wheel-throwing and mould-making, as well as a mastery of ceramic techniques and the gestures they involve. In 2011, he chose to break free from these conventions and develop a visual language of his own. Bowls and vases, followed by sculptures, became the surfaces for drawings that would gradually assume a central place in the ceramic artist’s work.

Extract from press release
Biography