Alistair Danhieux
Alistair Danhieux, Untitled n°39 – Untitled n° 29,
Alistair was born in 1975 in Crewe, England. He left England at the age of 18, his travels lead him to Puisaye where he discovered the local ceramic activity. He moved to Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye (Nièvre) in 2006.
Alistair numbers among those artist-craftsman whose work is the result of a life shaped more by adventure than by formal training or scholarly learning. A great traveller, he was drawn to people, to their country, to their work and to their ways of life. Like the travellers of the 19th Century, he recorded his memories in sketches, finding art through genuine experience like. He needed only to find a concrete vehicle through which he could express this experience.
Pottery, ceramics and all that they encompass, offered the best course of action. His manual skill, his aesthetic sensitivity, and his contact with other potters, notably those who teach at the Cnifop in Saint Amand, allowed him to enter, almost spontaneously, into this profession which corresponds so well to his aspirations.”
Robert Deblander, July 2009.
RECENTS EXHIBITIONS
- 2024
- Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste – Alistair Danhieux/Anne Van Hoey
- 2023
- Salon Révélations – Grand Palais Ephèmere, Paris
- Galerie Alain Ellouz – 55 Quai des Grands Augustins, Paris
- Maison d’art François-Xavier Bertrand, Bordeaux
- 2022-2024
- Collaboration/exposition avec la Fondation Alain Ellouz pour l’Albâtre
- 2021-2022
- Presence à Karry Gallery, 18 rue de Seine, Paris
- 2021
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- Focus Alistair Danhieux vs Thomas Bohle, Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste
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- 2020
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- Galerie Collection, Paris
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- 2019
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- Galerie Terra Viva, St Quentin-la-Poterie (30)
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- 2017
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- “Céramistes contemporains de Puisaye“, avec Robert Deblander & Nathalie Pierlot, Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, Toucy, Bourgogne.
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- 2016
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- “ Rétrospective 2015 “, Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, Toucy, Yonne, Bourgogne
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- 2015
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- Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, Toucy, Yonne, Bourgogne
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Alistair Danhieux, raku nu en exposition à la Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste en mars 2017
2014
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- Galerie du Don, Le Fel, Aveyron
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- 2013
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- Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, Toucy, Yonne, Bourgogne
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- 2012
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- Galerie Quincampoix, Paris
- Galerie Evelyne Heno, Paris
- Galerie Argile, Clermont-Ferrand
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- 2011
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- Galerie Sparts, Paris
- Espace St Jean, Melun, France
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- 2010
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- Galerie Thalie, Paris.
- Circuit céramique, La scène française contemporaine, Musée national de céramique, Sèvres. France
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- 2009
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- Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, Toucy,Yonne avec Claude Dutertre.France
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Nicole CRESTOU, “Alistair Danhieux, à grands pas”– La Revue de la Céramique et du Verre, N°170, janv.-fév. 2010.
- Robert DEBLANDER, “Alistair Danhieux“, in “Circuit céramique à Sèvres. La scène française contemporaine”, Edition Sèvres-Cité de la Céramique, 2010.
- Stéphanie LE FOLLIC-HADIDA, “Alistair Danhieux, New Work”– La Revue de la Céramique et du Verre, N°194, janv.-fév. 2014.
