Wayne Bates

Large Bowl

1996

Daley Family Donation

6 "H 12.75"Diameter

Wayne Bates Artist Biography

Wayne Bates is best known for functional wheel thrown porcelain bowls, plates, platters, and vases, fired in mid-range oxidation. The pots are sprayed or brushed with engobes. Often the surface techniques are carved in patterns reflecting simple geometry. During his time as an undergraduate at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee, Bates majored in painting. Despite the lack of a strong ceramics program, it was at Union that he first began working in clay. Stimulated by his teacher, Bates took over the small ceramics room, fired the kilns and taught himself how to use the potter's wheel.

His work in graduate school was in the Leach British stoneware tradition. Completely immersing himself in this aesthetic, Wayne copied the forms and used the original recipes for the glazes to learn the art and craft of that style. In Athens, Bates had access to the Peabody Collection of Archaeology, and its extensive collection of drawings of Native American and South American pottery. He also took classes in the history of ceramics with an emphasis in Aztec and Incan pottery. His continued study of the history of ceramics has very much influenced his work as a potter and helped him understand his own work in the great tradition of hand-made functional ceramic objects. He envisions himself able to connect to this vast knowledge, or as he puts it, "To swim in a very deep and wide river of experience."

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