Debra Sloan - Horsing Around | Ceramic horse art

Last Journey with Bill, 2025, with Landscape

Stoneware, coloured, slips, rebar wire tail, 15 x 15 inches, 36cm x 36cm
Not Tiptoeing through Tulips. 2024 Solo exhibition, Les Grand Dames, CCBC. Made in response to Tang equestrians.

Red clay, Coloured slips, rebar wire, H-15 inches, 36cm, private collection, NY
Fly Away Home, Finial, 2018, HONOURABLE MENTION, 4th Edition Cluj International Ceramics Exhibition.

Reduction fired porcelain, ersatz finial, H-13 x 12 inches, 33 x 28cm,Collection of Ceramart, CCB, Romania
Winds Of St. Ives, 2014, Installed on roof of Leach Pottery shop. Made during 1st time as artist in residency at Leach Pottery.

Reductio fired stoneware and white slip, 14 x 1 inches, 36 x 36 cm
Leach Looking Back, 2014. Made during 1st time as artist in residence at Leach Pottery, and featured in Ceramics of South Africa, article, Dr. Ronnie Watt. 2019

Reduction fired Stoneware, equestrian tile. 13 x 13 inches 33 x 33cm
Hamada At the Leach. 2014. Equestrian finial. Made during 1st time as artist in residence at Leach Pottery, Installed on Leach gas kiln

Reduction fired stoneware, 13 x 12 inches, 33 -30cm, Collection of Leach Pottery, St Ives.
Whisper Sweet Nothings, 2016, Installed at YVR - Vancouver Airport.

Red clay, white and coloured slips, rebar wire, H- 22 inches. Collection of YVR
Traveller, 2017, Exhibit, 7th Triennial, Tallin, Applied arts, Estonia.

Porcelain and colour slips, and picture wire, H-12 inches. 30cm,Collection in Estonia
Over the Edge, 2017 3rd Cluj Biennial, Ceramart Collection Romania

Reduction fired stoneware, coloured slips, H- 13 x 14. H-33cm x 36cm, Collection of Ceramart CCB, Romania.
Rub a Dub Dub, 3 babes in a tub, SOFA Chicago 2017, Maria Elena Kravetz Gallery, Private collection

Reduction fired stoneware, slipcast porcelain figures, ersatz roof tile with inlay, H- 14 inches, 36cm, private collection.
Passage over Landscape, SOFA Chicago 2017, Maria Elena Kravetz Gallery, Private collection

Wrote clay, press moulded figures, and decal on ersatz roof tile. H 12 inches.SOFA Chicago 2017, private collection
Over the Edge, 2016, SOFA Chicago 2017, Maria Elena Kravetz Gallery, Private collection

Reduction fired stoneware, coloured slips, blue and white inlay on horse, H - 15 inches, 38cm
Wheelies in the Woods, solo exhibition Horsing Around , 2014

Red clay, white slip, Tree sgrafitto, on clay wheels. H - 23 inches, 59cm, private collection
We are All at Sea 2015, equestrian finial, exhibited in 2019/2020 Playing with Fire and installed in Koerner Gallery 2019, collection of artist.
Hay Burner, exhibited in FIRED UP 2015, stolen

red clay, white slips, and straw, H- 13 inches, 33 cm..In a thief's private collection
Peddle Power, 2015, exhibited in FIRED UP.

Red clay, slips, private collection
Travellers, 2014, Horsing Around Exhibit 2014

red clay, coloured slips, Leach's Tree of Life, on horse, H-13 inches, 33cm. private collection
Traveller reach the Coast, 2014, Horsing Around Exhibition

Red clay, coloured slips straw, H 25 inches, collection of artist
Are We There Yet ? 2014, Horsing around Exhibition

Red clay, coloured slips, rebar wire, H-20 inches, x L-24 inches. 50 x 60cm, collection of artist
Me and My Horse, 2024, solo exhibit, Les Grandes Dames, Craft Council of BC.

Red clay, coloured slips, trephine wire, 14 x 13 inches. 33cm x 31cm
Horsing Around Exhibit 2014, Private collection

Red clay, yellow slip, H- 17 inches, 43cm, private collection
Miniature Horse and Rider roof tile,2017.

Tiny equestrian, H-4 inches, collection of artist.

HORSING AROUND
The idea of Horse and riders continues, and comes from my experience as Artist in Residence at the Leach Pottery in St Ives, in 2014, 2017 and 2018, when I was researching the tradition of equestrian roof finials in the West Country. The 2014 residency allowed me to re-visit my love of horses, and was the foundation of my solo exhibition,” Horsing Around” at the Gallery of BC Ceramics. The publications, 2017 “UP on the Roof – Bernard Leach and the Equestrian Tile Tradition” by Peter Smith and myself, and the 2nd Edition, in 2018, are the result of these residencies. Photos by Dr. Matt Tyas, Leach Pottery, and Ted Clarke, Image This, Vancouver.