전 시 기간: 2025.11.5.(수)-12.05(금)
전 시 명: Jennifer Lee: Traces
전시작가: 제니퍼 리 Jennifer Lee
주관 및 기획 : 갤러리LVS
장 소: APMA CABINET (아모레퍼시픽 본사 1F)
전시문의 : T. 02-3443-7475 E. info@gallerylvs.org
갤러리LVS에서 영국 도예가 제니퍼 리 (Jennifer Lee) 의 국내 두번째 개인전을 서울 용산 아모레퍼시픽 본사 1층 APMA 캐비닛에서 개최한다. 제니퍼 리는 세계적으로 권위있는 2018년 로에베 공예상 위너를 수상했고, 버나드 리치(Bernard Leach), 루시 리(Lucie Rie)의 계보를 잇는 영국에서 가장 영향력 있는 작가 중 한 명으로 평가된다. 제니퍼 리는 슬로우 크래프트(Slow Craft)를 지향하고 있어 1년에 10-12점 내외의 작품만을 만드는 것으로 알려져 있다. 하나의 작은 그릇은 계속해서 몇 번이고 반죽되고 성형되는 과정을 통해 오랫동안 만들어지며 이는 도자 그릇의 형태를 초월하여 한 인간의 경험과 역사가 어떻게 손으로 표현되는지를 흙, 물, 불의 자연적 재료만으로 보여준다.
제니퍼 리가 사용하는 흙은 30-40년간 직접 만들고 모아온 점토 아카이브에서 골라 사용되며, 이 흙 안에는 수많은 자연을 마주한 경험을 통해 채집한 유기 물질들이 섞인 채 긴 시간이 지나 고유한 반점, 띠 모양으로 나타난다. 1년동안 반죽한 흙과 30년동안 반죽한 흙은 시작의 순간에는 같을지라도 서로 다른 생을 살아 불을 만나는 순간 달라지기 때문에 모든 작품들은 ‘시간’ 그 자체다. 특히 2018년 로에베 공예상 위너 수상작은 30년동안 숙성하고 반죽한 흙으로 만든 작품으로, 유한하고 한정적인 재료를 통해 인간이 표현할 수 있는 무한한 세월의 흐름과 자연 변화, 장인 정신을 담아 화제가 되었다.
제니퍼 리의 작품은 전통적인 도자 제작 방식인 핀칭과 코일링을 사용해서 손으로 형태를 쌓아 올려 만들어지며, 유약 대신 점토에 산화물을 섞어 도자의 색과 톤이 도자기의 표면과 내부에서 조화롭게 이어지도록 만든다. 손으로 점토를 꼬집어서 만드는 핀칭 기법과 점토를 층층이 돌려가며 쌓는 코일링 기법을 통해 점토에 섞인 산화물이 시간의 흐름과 손가락이 지나가는 자리, 코일링의 방향 등에 영향을 받아 색이 퍼지는 흔적이나 얼룩, 줄무늬를 직접 조절하여 그릇에 어울리는 무늬로 자리 잡을 수 있도록 만든다. 각 흙이 섞이는 부분을 손으로 직접 밀어내고 당기는 과정에서 색이 번지고 띠 모양이 생기며 기물의 내외부가 마치 공명하듯 함께 움직여가며 고유하고 특별한 비대칭 모양으로 자리를 잡아가며 작품이 만들어진다. 흙과 물, 산화물, 불, 대나무 칼 등 원초적인 재료들과 손으로 빚어지는 전통적인 과정, 흙이 숙성되고 변화되는 시간의 흐름이 만나 단순히 눈에 보여지고 만져지는 기물이 아닌 자연의 지질적 감각, 장소의 기억과 경험을 그 안에 담아 보여주는 것이 이 작품의 본질이다.
각 작품들은 모두 다른 시간을 살아온 흙으로 만들어졌고, 표면을 매끈하게 다듬거나 투박하게 스크래칭하는 연마 과정을 통해 저마다 다른 무늬와 색을 가진 고유한 정체성을 보여준다. 작은 그릇들을 들여다보면 대지, 토양, 풍경, 광물, 퇴적층을 연상시키는 작업 과정과 형태를 느낄 수 있어 마치 지질 시료처럼 억겁의 세월 속 광활하게 펼쳐진 자연을 떠올리게 한다. 제니퍼 리의 작품은 V&A, 대영박물관, 메트로폴리탄 박물관, LA카운티 미술관, 필라델피아 미술관, 시가라키 현대도예박물관 등 세계적인 기관에 소장 되어있으며 2021년 영국 왕실로부터 예술 분야의 공로를 인정받아 Order of the British Empire (OBE) 훈장을 수여 받았다.
본 전시는 23점의 도자 작품과 4점의 드로잉 작업을 선보이며 1980년대부터 2025년까지의 작업들을 망라하는 규모로 관람객들과 만난다.
갤러리LVS 이유진
Gallery LVS is pleased to present Jennifer Lee : Traces, the second solo exhibition in Korea by the renowned British ceramic artist, held at the APMA Cabinet(Amorepacific museum of art Cabinet) located on the first floor of the Amorepacific headquarters in Yongsan, Seoul.
Jennifer Lee, winner of the 2018 LOEWE Craft Prize, is widely regarded as one of the most influential ceramic artists in Britain, carrying forward the tradition of Bernard Leach and Lucie Rie. Known for her philosophy of Slow Craft, Lee produces only around 10 to 12 works each year. Each vessel is formed through a long, repeated process of kneading and shaping, transcending the form of a simple pot to express the passage of human experience and history through the most elemental materials—clay, water, and fire.
The clay used in Lee’s works is selected from her own archive, which she has built and refined over the past 30 to 40 years. Within these clays lie organic materials gathered from encounters with nature, forming unique specks and bands over time. Clay that has been kneaded for a year and clay that has matured for thirty years may begin the same, yet diverge as they meet the fire—each work thus becomes an embodiment of time itself. Notably, her 2018 LOEWE Craft Prize-winning work was created from clay aged and kneaded over three decades, symbolizing how finite materials can convey the infinite passage of time, natural transformation, and the spirit of craftsmanship.
Lee constructs her vessels by hand using traditional techniques of pinching and coiling. Rather than applying glaze, she blends metallic oxides directly into the clay, allowing color and tone to harmonize both on the surface and within the body of the vessel. Through the motion of her hands—pinching, layering, and shaping—the oxides diffuse, leaving traces, smudges, and stripes that evoke the rhythm of time and touch. As the boundaries between different clays are pushed and pulled, the resulting bands of color and asymmetrical contours give each piece its singular resonance.
Through these elemental materials—clay, water, oxide, fire, and bamboo tools—and a deeply traditional hand-building process, Lee’s works transcend physical form to embody geological and emotional memory. They capture the sense of place, time, and natural transformation, existing as tactile records of the earth’s own history. Each vessel carries a distinct identity, shaped by the texture and age of the clay, and finished through various polishing and scratching techniques that create unique surfaces and hues. When viewed closely, these works evoke the earth’s strata, soil, minerals, and landscapes—resembling geological samples that conjure the vastness and depth of natural history.
Jennifer Lee’s works are held in major collections worldwide, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park. In 2021, she was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by the British royal family for her outstanding contribution to the arts.
This exhibition features 23 ceramic works and 4 drawings, spanning from the 1980s to 2025, offering a comprehensive view of the artist’s lifelong practice.
Gallery LVS Youjin Karen Lee
제니퍼 리 Jennifer Lee (b.1956)
Collections
UK
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums.
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
British Museum.
Buckinghamshire County Museum.
Contemporary Art Society, London.
Crafts Council Collection, London.
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Glasgow Museum and Art Galleries.
Hepworth Museum, Wakefield.
Hove Museum and Art Gallery.
Leeds City Art Gallery.
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art.
National Museum Wales.
Norwich Castle Museum.
Pallant House Gallery.
Peters Foundation, London.
Royal Museum, Edinburgh.
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia.
Scottish Collection, SDA, Edinburgh.
Thamesdown Collection, Museum and Art Gallery, Swindon.
Trustees Savings Bank Collection, London.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Sweden
CellMark, Göteborg.
National Museum, Stockholm.
Röhsska Museet, Göteborg.
Germany
Europäisches Kunst Handwerk Landesgerwerbeamt, Stuttgart.
Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg.
Grassi Museum of Applied Arts, Leipzig.
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg.
Peter Siemssen Foundation for Ceramic Art.
Switzerland
Musée Bellerive, Zurich.
Musée Ariana, Geneva.
New Zealand
Hawkes Bay Art Gallery and Museum, Napier, New Zealand.
North America
Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, New York,
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento.
Long Beach Museum of Art.
Long House Reserve Collection, New York.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Scripps College, Claremont, California.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Canada
Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto.
South Korea
Amorepacific Museum, Seoul.
Japan
The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo.
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts.
Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Mashiko.
The Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki.
Verkehr Museum, Shizuoka.
Awards
2021 Order of the British Empire for services to ceramics (OBE)
2018 LOEWE Craft Prize, Winner
2004 ‘European Ceramics ‑ Westerwald Prize’ Germany
2001 First World Ceramics Biennale, Ichon Korea, Honourable Mention.
1998 Bayerischer Staatspreis Munich 1998, Germany
1995 Fletcher Challenge Award (shortlist), New Zealand
1995 Jugend Gestaltet Prize, Munich, Germany
1992 The International Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramic Art, National Museum of History, Taiwan
1984 Mathildenhöhe Prize, Darmstadt, Germany
1983 Allen Lane Penguin Book Award, RCA, London
1979 David Gordon Memorial Trust Prize, Scotland
1979 Andrew Grant Travelling Scholarship to USA, Scotland
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Jennifer Lee: ceramics & drawings, Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels.
2023 Jennifer Lee: ceramics & drawings, Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan.
2022-23 Jennifer Lee: Made in Japan, Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, Ditchling.
2021 Jennifer Lee: Ten Pots, Erskine, Hall & Coe.
2019 Jennifer Lee: the potter's space, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge.
2019 Jennifer Lee: A personal selection, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
2019 Jennifer Lee: Works from a Private Collection, Erskine, Hall & Coe.
2018 Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto.
2017 Gallery LVS, Seoul.
2016 Erskine, Hall & Coe, London.
2015 Jennifer Lee - Ceramics made in Shigaraki and London,
Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto.
2015 Jennifer Lee, Tada no yume deshou ka,
The Institute of Ceramic Studies Gallery Shigaraki.
2013 Erskine, Hall & Coe, London.
2012 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles.
2010 Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney.
2009 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles.
2008 Galerie Besson, London.
2006 Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney.
2005 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles.
2003 Galerie Besson, London.
2002 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles.
2000 Galerie Besson, London.
1999 James Graham & Sons, New York.
1998 Focus, Contemporary Applied Arts, London.
1997 Galerie Besson, London.
1996 James Graham & Sons, New York.
1995 Galerie Besson, London.
1994 Jennifer Lee - Handbuilt Ceramics 1979-1994, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum.
1994 Osiris, Brussels.
1993 Galleri Lejonet, Stockholm.
1993 Jennifer Lee - Handbyggda Stengodskärl 1979-1993, Röhsska Museet, Göteborg.
1992 Galerie Besson, London.
1991 Graham Gallery, New York.
1990 Galerie Besson, London.
1987 Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Crafts Council.
1987 Beaux Arts, Bath.
1986 Craft Centre, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.
1985 Institute of Contemporary Art, London,
Crafts Council Side-show.
1985 Rosenthal Studio-Haus, London.
1984 Anatol Orient, London.
1981 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh.
Group Exhibitions
2024
LOEWE Crafted World, Shanghai Exhibition Center.
British London School, Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Japan.
TEFAF Maastricht 2024, Pierre Marie Giraud, The Netherlands.
Lucie Rie, Magdalene Odundo and Jennifer Lee, Offer Waterman, TEFAF New York.
LOEWE Lamps, Salone del Mobile 2024, Palazzo Citterio, Milan.
2023
Masterpieces in Miniature: The 2021 Model Art Gallery, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester.
On Foot: an exhibition curated by Jonathan Anderson, Offer Waterman, London.
Small Works, Great Artists, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London.
10 Great Works, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London.
Joe Tilson A-Z of Family and Friends, Marlborough Gallery, London.
The Art of the Potter: Ceramics and Sculpture from 1930 to Now, The Hepworth Wakefield.
2022
One of a Kind - Loewe Craft Prize Winners and Finalists, LVS Gallery, Seoul, South Korea.
Pioneering Women, Oxford Ceramics, Oxford.
The Fourth Dimension: To the Future of Vessels, Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art.
Ten Great Works, Erskine, Hall & Coe.
2021
Small Works, Great Artists, Erskine, Hall & Coe.
Of The Earth - Contemporary Ceramics and Glass from The Fitzwilliam Museum, Heong Gallery, Cambridge.
2020
Started it in England: Leach and Hamada, in Two Ways, Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Japan.
HOUSE OF CRAFT Korean Craft Museum, Cheongju. South Korea.
Artists in Residence in Mashiko: Irina Razumovskaya & Jennifer Lee, Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Japan.
Small Works, Great Artists, Erskine, Hall & Coe.
Clay and Abstraction : When Memories become Form, Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Mashiko, Japan .
2019
The Diana Reitberger Collection, The Gardiner Museum,
Toronto, Canada.
Salisbury Collection of Studio Ceramics, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Modernity & Elegance: Bernard Leach, Lucie Rie, Hans Coper and Jennifer Lee, The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, Japan.
Exchange and Experimentation - Toward a New Generation of Ceramic Art, Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art , Shigaraki,
POTs- the Vessel, The National Gallery, Bangkok.
75th Scripps College Ceramic Annual, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont.
Materiality: Masterworks from The Miller Ceramic Art Collection, Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, New York.
2018
Contemporary Ceramics in the 1990’s, Gallery Koyanagi.
The Diana Reitberger Collection, The Gardiner Museum,
Toronto, Canada.
The Dramatic Vessel, Iwate Museum of Art, Morioka, Japan.
Loewe Craft Prize 2018, Design Museum, London.
Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Ceramics, Fitzwilliam Museum , Cambridge.
Masters of British Studio Pottery, Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London.
Handheld, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut.
Timeless Secrets - Ceramic Artists in Their Own Words, Swindon Museum and Art.
2017
The Ehrlich Collection of American and British Ceramics, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, Texas.
Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Ceramics, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA.
The Dramatic Vessel, The Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki, Japan.
Design Basel, Sokyo Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
2015
Many a Slip, Marsden Woo Gallery, London.
Vessels: The Spirit of Modern British Ceramics, Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Japan.
2014
Toward a DESIGN MUSEUM JAPAN, 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo.
British Ceramics from Bernard Leach to New Generation, The Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki, Japan.
Small is Beautiful, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
The Collector’s Exhibition, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney.
2013
2nd International Ceramic Art Festival, Sasama, Japan.
International Ceramics, Verkehr Museum, Shizuoka, Japan.
From the World II , Gallery Hu, Nagoya, Japan.
Classic & Contemporary, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London.
LSG 2013, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
.
Friendship Forged in Fire: British Ceramics in America. American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California.
2012
FIHOC part two, Frank's International House of Ceramics. Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles
.
Galerie Besson, Retrospective of a Lifelong Passion, Officine Saffi Ceramic Arts, Milan.
the nature of things: Jennifer Lee, Hans Stofer and Laura Ellen Bacon, The New Art Centre, Roche Court Sculpture Park.
Masterworks by International Artists, Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo.
2011
Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London.
Contemporary Ceramics, Danese , New York.
Contemporary British Studio Ceramics, Mint Museum of Craft & Design, North Carolina.
2010
Blue Chip, The Collector's Exhibition, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney.
Group exhibition, Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo.
Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London.
2009
U-Tsu-Wa, 21_21 Design Sight, The Miyake Issey Foundation, Tokyo.
Contemporary Studio Ceramics: The Dauer Collection, California State University, Sacramento.
The Cellmark Collection, Röhsska Museet, Göteborg.
British Studio Pottery, Monnow Valley Arts Centre, Wales.
2008
British Studio Ceramics - 20th Century Transformations, Buckinghamshire County Museum.
Twenty Years - Twenty Pots, Galerie Besson, London.
Beautifully Crafted, National Glass Centre, Sunderland.
2006
Collect, Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Puur Klei, Pottenbakkers Museum, Tegelen, The Netherlands.
International Post War Ceramic Art, Bonhams, London.
2005
Celebrating 30 Years, Crafts Council Shop at the V&A, Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Biennale Européenne de Céramiques Contemporaines, Mussée de l’Outil et de la Pensée Ouvrière, Troyes, France.
Modern Pots: Lucie Rie, Hans Coper and their Contemporaries, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London.
A Duckworth Homage, Organic Abstraction, Garth Clark Gallery, New York.
One Piece - One Artist, International Ausstellung, Galerie Marianne Heller, Heidelberg, Germany.
2004
European Ceramics, Westerwald Museum, Germany.
2003
Constructed Clay: Modern British Handbuilding, Galerie Besson, London.
Selected British Ceramics, James Graham & Sons, New York.
Ceramic Biennale 2003, Ichon World Ceramic Centre, Korea.
British Ceramics: Five Artists, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles.
British Studio Ceramics, Buckinghamshire County Museum.
Hove Museum & Art Gallery, Hove, Sussex.
2002
Vasen aus 10 Ländern, Bavarian Craft Council, Munich.
Ceramic Modernism: Hans Coper, Lucie Rie and Their Legacy, The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto.
2001
Poetics of Clay: An International Perspective, Philadelphia Art Alliance.
1st World Ceramic Biennale 2001, Ichon World Ceramic Centre, Korea.
Modern Pots, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich.
Bengt Julin's Ceramics, Gustavsbergs Porslinsmuseum, Sweden.
2000
Britisk Keramik.2000.dk, Keramikmuseet Grimmerhus, Denmark.
Color and Fire, Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics 1950-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (touring).
1999
Current Context - New Ways of Seeing, Royal Museum, Edinburgh.
Clay into Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
25 Years of Contemporary Craft, Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Commemorative Mugs for the Millenium, Galerie Besson, London.
1998
Gestaltendes Handwerk, Munich.
Collecting Craft, Hove Museum & Art Gallery, Hove.
Contemporary Decorative Arts, Sotheby's, London.
Spirit of the Times, Bowes Museum, Durham
Frauen in Europa, Galerie Marianne Heller, Sandhausen, Germany.
1997
English Craft, The Works Gallery, Philadelphia.
European Ceramic Art II, Yufuku, Tokyo.
1996
Design im Wandel: Produkte, Fetische, Rituale, Übersee Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Bremen.
Living Belsay, Belsay Hall, Northumberland.
