MARTIN SMITH
Martin Smith (b. 1950) uses the formal limitations of the vessel to investigate different conditions of space. In the foreword to the catalogue of his 1996 retrospective exhibition at the Museum Boijman's van Beunigen, Rotterdam, the Director, Chris Dercon compared his innovative and influential career to that of the late Hans Coper, and described him as '...the most abstract and geometrically orientated ceramist in England and possibly of our times'.

A key figure in British ceramics, he studied at Bristol Polytechnic Faculty of Art and at the Royal College of Art. Examples of his work are held in numerous public collections world-wide including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the National Museums of Modern Art, Tokyo and Kyoto; Los Angeles County Museum; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. He is Professor of Ceramics & Glass at the Royal College of Art.