Kyra Cane is a highly skilled potter who lives and works in Nottinghamshire, England. She has exhibited widely in Britain and is now developing an international reputation.
Kyra makes ceramic vessels which are monumental, handling surface and form with great sensitivity and throwing on an extravagant scale. Indentations are a response not only to the form, but also to the fulfilment of the impulse to mark and distort an even and symmetrical structure. References are made to the wild open spaces where she loves to draw. The edge of the land has a particular fascination for her; that place where earth meets vast open seas and huge expansive skies, and the marks Kyra employs allude to these, layers of oxides and stains are brushed, rubbed out, built up and exposed to multiple firings at high temperatures which increase the risk of failure but hopefully achieve a greater degree of resolution.
Recently, Kyra has worked on a collaboration with Villa Nova, part of the international textile company 'Romo' developing a new and innovative collection of textiles and wallcoverings.
Kyra is a selected member of Contemporary Applied Arts
Fellow of the Craft Potters Association
Chair of the board of trustees for the Craft Pottery Charitable Trust
Selected Exhibitions
2022 From Potter's Wheel to Interior Decor-A collaboration with Villa Nova-Romo Textile Group Harley Gallery, Nottinghamshire
2019 Twenty Twenty Gallery, Ludlow
2018 From Light to Dark-Contemporary Ceramics Centre, London
2016 Bircham Gallery, Norfolk
2014 'A Life of Making and Drawing'-Millenium Gallery, Sheffield
2008 Harley Gallery, Nottinghamshire
2001 Hart Gallery, London
1999 Bettles Gallery, Hampshire
1995 Galerie L' Hamburg, Germany
Hart Gallery, London
1994 'Pour When Inclined'-Canvas Gallery, London
1993 'Pots and Paintings', Traquair, Scotland
1990 Montpellier Gallery, Cheltenham