CROSSINGS: Hans Coper, Sam Herman, Lucie Rie & Eduardo Paolozzi
11 February - 21 March 2026

Co-curated by Isabella Smith & Frestonian Gallery and supported by loans from The Crafts Council

Private View: Wednesday 11th February 6-8pm

Exhibition Dates: Thursday 12th February to Saturday 21st March

The exhibition Crossings: Hans Coper, Sam Herman, Lucie Rie & Eduardo Paolozzi traces the movement of ideas that reshaped British art in the post-war decades, focusing on four immigrant artists who expanded the nation’s aesthetic and material vocabulary. Together, these artists reveal Britain as a crossroads of global perspectives: a place where exile, migration and cultural exchange sparked new forms of making. The exhibition celebrates their legacy – a modern British art energised, expanded and reimagined by international influence.

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  • Untitled (110)
    Sam Herman
    1936-2020
    Untitled (110), 1970
    signed and dated on base
    blown glass
    32 x 32 cm
    12 5/8 x 12 5/8 in
  • Untitled (111)
    Sam Herman
    1936-2020
    Untitled (111)
    signed on base
    blown glass
    16 x 13 cm
    6 1/4 x 5 1/8 in
  • Untitled (112)
    Sam Herman
    1936-2020
    Untitled (112), 1971
    signed and dated on base
    blown glass
    23 x 15.5 cm
    9 x 6 1/8 in
  • Untitled
    Sam Herman
    1936-2020
    Untitled, 1974
    signed and dated on base
    blown glass
    53.5 x 40 x 7 cm
    21 x 15 3/4 x 2 3/4 in
  • Untitled (114)
    Sam Herman
    1936-2020
    Untitled (114), 1971
    Signed and dated on base
    blown glass
    56 x 35.5 x 9.5 cm
    22 x 14 x 3 3/4 in
  • Untitled (97)
    Sam Herman
    1936-2020
    Untitled (97), 1976
    signed and dated on base
    blown glass
    27.5 x 16 cm
    10 7/8 x 6 1/4 in
  • Untitled (115)
    Sam Herman
    1936-2020
    Untitled (115), 1975
    signed and dated on base
    blown glass
    25 x 14 cm
    9 7/8 x 5 1/2 in
  • Untitled (13)
    Sam Herman
    1936-2020
    Untitled (13), 1976
    signed and dated on base
    blown glass
    22.5 x 20 cm
    8 7/8 x 7 7/8 in
    Justin Piperger
  • Untitled (116)
    Sam Herman
    1936-2020
    Untitled (116), 1977
    signed and dated on base
    blown glass
    16.5 x 19 cm
    6 1/2 x 7 1/2 in
  • Untitled (84)
    Sam Herman
    1936-2020
    Untitled (84), 1978
    signed and dated on base
    blown glass
    35 x 19 cm
    13 3/4 x 7 1/2 in
  • Untitled (119)
    Sam Herman
    1936-2020
    Untitled (119), 1979
    signed and dated on base
    blown glass
    34 x 22 cm
    13 3/8 x 8 5/8 in
  • Untitled (120)
    Sam Herman
    1936-2020
    Untitled (120), 1979
    signed and dated on base
    blown glass
    41 x 28 cm
    16 1/8 x 11 in
  • Untitled (92)
    Sam Herman
    1936-2020
    Untitled (92), 1981
    signed and dated on base
    blown glass
    23 x 20 cm
    9 x 7 7/8 in
  • Untitled (91)
    Sam Herman
    1936-2020
    Untitled (91), 1981
    signed and dated on base
    blown glass
    20 x 16 cm
    7 7/8 x 6 1/4 in
  • Untitled (90)
    Sam Herman
    1936-2020
    Untitled (90), 1981
    signed and dated on base
    blown glass
    23 x 16 cm
    9 x 6 1/4 in
  • Untitled (121)
    Sam Herman
    1936-2020
    Untitled (121), 1981
    Signed and dated on base
    blown glass
    23 x 18 cm
    9 x 7 1/8 in
  • Untitled (123)
    Sam Herman
    1936-2020
    Untitled (123), 1982
    signed and date on base
    blown Glass
    19 x 10 cm
    7 1/2 x 4 in
  • Untitled
    Lucie Rie & Hans Coper
    1902-1995, 1920-1981
    Untitled, c.1950
    Glazed stoneware with oatmeal exterior and pale green interior
    8 x 15 cm
    3 1/8 x 5 7/8 in
  • Early Glazed Bowl
    Lucie Rie
    1902-1995
    Early Glazed Bowl, 1955
    Impressed with artist's seal
    Glazed Stoneware
    10.2 x 7.6 cm
    4 x 3 in
  • Cylindrical Pot (p100)
    Lucie Rie
    Cylindrical Pot (p100), 1960
    Thrown oxidised stoneware with pitted white glaze over dark body.
    16 x 9.5 cm
    6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in
  • Tall Vase
    Lucie Rie
    1902-1995
    Tall Vase, c.1975
    Stoneware, all over pure white vase
    33 x 10 cm
    13 x 4 in
  • Globular Vase
    Lucie Rie
    1902-1995
    Globular Vase
    Stoneware long neck and short flaring rim, all over white volcanic glaze
    30 x 15.5 cm
    11 3/4 x 6 1/8 in
  • Footed Bowl
    Lucie Rie
    1902-1995
    Footed Bowl, 1968
    Impressed with artist's seal
    Porcelain, matte yellow glaze with manganese rim
    7.6 x 16.5 cm
    3 x 6 1/2 in
  • Bowl
    Lucie Rie
    1902-1995
    Bowl, c. 1972
    Impressed with artist's seal
    Glazed stoneware
    7 x 17.8 cm
    2 3/4 x 7 in
  • Conical Bowl
    Lucie Rie
    1902-1995
    Conical Bowl, 1972
    Impressed with artist's seal
    Porcelain, radiating inlaid lines, manganese bands to rim and foot, with kiln splits
    12.7 x 29.2 cm
    5 x 11 1/2 in
  • Untitled
    Lucie Rie
    1902-1995
    Untitled, 1978-80
    stoneware with manganese drip
    12 x 19 cm
    4 3/4 x 7 1/2 in
  • Bottle Vase
    Lucie Rie
    1902-1995
    Bottle Vase, 1979
    Impressed with artist's seal
    Glazed porcelain with sgrafitto decoration
    17.1 x 7.6 cm
    6 3/4 x 2 3/4 in
  • Vase with Flaring Rim
    Lucie Rie
    1902-1995
    Vase with Flaring Rim, c. 1980
    Impressed with artist's seal
    Porcelain with two bands of blue with sgraffito and manganese glaze
    24.1 x 10.2 cm
    9 1/2 x 4 in
  • Byzantine-style Vase
    Lucie Rie
    1902-1995
    Byzantine-style Vase, c. 1982
    Impressed with artist's seal
    Porcelain, golden manganese glaze, sgraffito on the shoulder and the interior
    23.5 x 10.2 cm
    9 1/4 x 4 in
  • Stoneware Bowl
    Lucie Rie
    1902-1995
    Stoneware Bowl
    Impressed with artist's seal
    Porcelain, with manganese glaze and sgraffito decoration, and pitted white glaze
    7.6 x 15.9 cm
    3 x 6 1/4 in
  • Early Planter
    Hans Coper
    1920-1981
    Early Planter, c.1958
    Stoneware conical base with flared horizontal rim,
    layered white and buff slip over textured body rubbed with manganese.
    13 x 33 cm
    5 1/8 x 13 in
  • Large Bottle Form
    Hans Coper
    1920-1981
    Large Bottle Form, c.1965
    Stoneware bulbous lower section with chamfered foot, cylindrical neck beneath a broad disc-shaped lip, dry buff slip over textured body rubbed with manganese
    30 x 24 cm
    11 3/4 x 9 1/2 in
  • Monumental Composite Vessel
    Hans Coper
    1920-1981
    Monumental Composite Vessel, c.1965
    Stoneware satellite form, dry buff slip over a textured body rubbed with manganese.
    46 x 60 cm
    18 1/8 x 23 5/8 in
  • Richard Rogers as Newton
    Eduardo Paolozzi
    1924-2005
    Richard Rogers as Newton, 1990
    Signed and dated on base ''Eduardo Paolozzi 1990'
    Inscribed and numbered on base 'For Rudi 3/6'
    Bronze
    41 x 50.5 x 36 cm
    16 1/8 x 19 7/8 x 14 1/8 in
    Edition 3 of 6
  • Vulcan
    Eduardo Paolozzi
    1924-2005
    Vulcan, 1998
    signed (inscribed) 'Paolozzi' a/c
    Bronze - a/c (after edition of 2)
    60.5 x 24 x 29 cm
    23 7/8 x 9 1/2 x 11 3/8 in
  • Engine - Racing Car
    Eduardo Paolozzi
    1924-2005
    Engine - Racing Car, c.1998
    signed (inscribed on base)
    cast bronze
    16 x 34 x 17 cm
    6 1/4 x 13 3/8 x 6 3/4 in
  • WunderKammer II
    Eduardo Paolozzi
    1924-2005
    WunderKammer II, c. 1990-2000
    Stamped Paolozzi Foundation
    Unique plaster elements (41 pieces) in oak & perspex vitrine
    100 x 100 x 26 cm
    39 3/8 x 39 3/8 x 10 1/4 in
  • London to Paris
    Eduardo Paolozzi
    1924-2005
    London to Paris, c.1999
    Plaster
    15 x 34 x 20 cm
    5 7/8 x 13 3/8 x 7 7/8 in
  • Untitled (Drawing) VIII
    Eduardo Paolozzi
    1924-2005
    Untitled (Drawing) VIII, 1964
    Signed E Paolozzi
    Graphite on paper
    31.5 x 22 cm
    12 3/8 x 8 5/8 in
  • Untitled
    Eduardo Paolozzi
    1924-2005
    Untitled, 1972
    Signed E Paolozzi
    Graphite on paper
    25 x 34 cm
    9 7/8 x 13 3/8 in
  • Untitled
    Eduardo Paolozzi
    1924-2005
    Untitled, 1974
    Signed E Paolozzi
    Graphite on paper
    19.5 x 21.5 cm
    7 5/8 x 8 1/2 in
  • Untitled Drawing II
    Eduardo Paolozzi
    1924-2005
    Untitled Drawing II, 1967
    Signed E Paolozzi
    Graphite & collage on paper
    25.4 x 18 cm
    10 x 7 1/8 in

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