Barry Stedman

A painter by inclination, Barry’s ceramics are preceded by paintings in watercolour or gouache, often made in the open air, where he is inspired by the light and patterns in the sky and the farms and fields visible from his home. Changing surroundings, such as those experienced on a moving train, also inform his work. These paintings are then reworked into larger, more abstract, oil paintings and ultimately lead to the ceramics, which he creates in red clay with coloured slips. He works intuitively and energetically and, because the true colours of the pieces only emerge after firing, there is always an element of chance in his work, which retains its spontaneity and freshness. Having been educated at Barnfield College, Luton Barry was a ceramics graduate of Harrow (University of Westminster), here he achieved a first class honours degree. He then spent a year as an assistant in Edmund de Waal’s studio and quickly established a reputation for his distinctive and poetic individual pots.

In 2004, Juliana Cavaliero and Debra Finn curated their first exhibition as Cavaliero Finn in a home in South London and they haven't looked back since.

For this exhibition, Cavaliero Finn returned to its South London roots to celebrate its 20th birthday at Stockwell Studio. The exhibition featured a wide range of artists who have shown with the gallery over the last 20 years including work by our current portfolio of artists and work from some of our earlier artists, like painters Holly Frean, Daisy Cook and Caroline Popham, paper artist Thurle Wright, designer makers Sam Edkins and Deborah Bowness, and sculptors Tom Stogdon, Danuta Solowiej, Merete Rasmussen and Patricia Volk who returned to the gallery as guest artists for this show. The exhibition also included an installation by textile artist Isabelle Fletcher and new work by Lise Herud Braten, the most recent additions to the Cavaliero Finn portfolio.

Revisit this exhibition online now.

A cold river

Almost May

Any Moment

Playing Live

Other works

Revisit our show Collections for London Craft Week 2025 at Stockwell Studio

Flora Majestica

20 Years of Cavaliero Finn

Elemental Lines

Artefact - Design Centre Chelsea Harbour

Hint - Cavaliero Finn at Gallery 475

London Art Fair 2022

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