Biography

Born in 1978 Adam Buick is a ceramic artist based on the St. Davids Peninsula in Pembrokeshire, West Wales, where he grew up. Following a degree in Archaeology and Anthropology from Lampeter University he turned to ceramics, attending West Wales School of the Arts before training to be a potter in Ireland.

Since 2006 he has built a nationwide reputation and has exhibited internationally from Seoul to Buenos Aires, Melbourne to New York. Buick has been widely published and has work in public and private collections around the world including the V&A, Hepworth Museum Wakefield, The British Museum, Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales, the UK Crafts Council and the Devonshire Collections at Chatsworth House.

In 2013 he was selected for the Jerwood Makers Open and received a Ceramic Review Award. His work was included in the British Pavilion at The Cheongju Biennale, Korea 2017; in the exhibition Things of Beauty Growing at the Yale Center for British Art and the Fitzwilliam Museum, 2017-2018; and at the British Ceramics Biennale’s Award exhibition in 2019.

Recent exhibitions include Hauser and Wirth Somerset, New Arts Centre, Beaux Arts Bath, Sarah Myerscough Gallery and Frieze Art Fair with Corvi Mora. In 2023, Ruthin Craft Centre, a collaborator for many years, hosted his major solo show, Grounding.