Exhibitions

Previous Exhibitions

2023

8 July 2023 - 1 Jan 2024 'Reflections' Blackwell Arts & Crafts House, Bowness-on-Windermere Solo Exhibitions
April 21 - Sept 18 'Natural Connections' Aberystwyth Arts Centre Solo Exhibitions
March 14 - June 18 From The Earth - New work & acquisition commissioned The Watts Gallery Solo Exhibitions

2021

March - October Glyndebourne New Rd, Lewes BN8 5UU Solo Exhibitions

2020

February 2 2019 - January 5 2020 Eclectica - global inspirations Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, Solo Exhibitions

2016

June - September Outside In Belsay Hall, Northumberland Solo Exhibitions

2014

March 3 - April 19 In Focus: ‘Exploration in Concrete’ Kirby Art Gallery, Kirby Solo Exhibitions

2013

July 1 - August 30 One Canada Square Canary Wharf, London Solo Exhibitions
July 31 - August 17 Sculpture in Clay Pangolin London Solo Exhibitions
October 10 - November 2 CPA Gallery, London Solo Exhibitions

2012

March 12 - May 8 Newcastle Museum & Art Gallery Newcastle-under-Lyme Solo Exhibitions
June 5 - July 27 Peterborough Art Gallery Peterbouough Solo Exhibitions
July 27 - October 7 Blackwell The Arts & Crafts House, Windermere, Cumbria Solo Exhibitions

2011

January 15 - March 5 Biscuit Factory Newcastle-upon-Tyne Solo Exhibitions
June 4 - August 1 Cartwright Hall Bradford Solo Exhibitions
November 18 - January 8 Myles Meehan Gallery Darlington Solo Exhibitions

2010

March 6 - April 24 Bluecoat Display Centre Liverpool Solo Exhibitions
June 3 - July 18 The Margaret Harvey Gallery St Albans Solo Exhibitions

2009

February 28 Craft Study Centre Surrey Solo Exhibitions

2008

February - March Art Mill Hebden Bridge Solo Exhibitions
March 12 - August 18 Gallery Oldham Oldham Solo Exhibitions
June - September 20-21 Visual Arts Centre Scunthorpe Solo Exhibitions
September 22-November 25 Wakefield Art Gallery Wakefield Solo Exhibitions

2007

March 4 - April 24 Platform Gallery Cllitheroe Solo Exhibitions
April 29 - August 12 Warrington Art Gallery & Museum Warrington Solo Exhibitions
August 19 - September 23 Mid Pennine Gallery Burnley Solo Exhibitions

2006

June Beverley Art Gallery Yorkshire Solo Exhibitions

2005

January - March Bolton Museum and Gallery Bolton Solo Exhibitions
August - October Biscuit Factory Newcastle Solo Exhibitions
October 24 - December 4 The Hub Lincolnshire Solo Exhibitions

2004

February - April Blackburn Museum Blackburn Solo Exhibitions
May Portico Gallery Manchester Solo Exhibitions

  • The most inspiring ceramic work I have seen in thirty years! Beautiful, mesmerising, powerful and thoughtful. Genius! Love, love, love this work.
    – Judith Ramsgate, 53 years old

  • Halima’s work demonstrates incredible dedication and energy; one thing is clear, she will be among the future pathfinders and leaders.
    – Alan Grieve, Chairman, The Jerwood Foundation

  • The work is of a high standard and creates an interesting contrast to the Da Vinci drawing. Can see the evolution of the process and the sculptures convey different ideas and theories. An excellent artist.
    – Jina

  • Working mostly with ‘naked clay’, that is without the use of glaze or slip, Cassell first carefully carves and then smoothes and burnishes to remove any blemishes, so virtually making the surface ‘ disappear’, leaving the form clean and prominent
    – Emmanuel Cooper

  • It is not easy to put into words the effect that Halima Cassell’s remarkable ceramic sculptures have on you when you first encounter a well displayed section of her work
    – Zachary Kingdom

  • She was sketching constantly and continually sought to transpose her drawings into sculptural forms. The surface as well as the shapes emerged together in sculpture which often combined enormous complexity with simplicity and unity.
    – Helaine Blumenfeld OBE FRBS Dlitt

  • Her signature material is clay, which she moulds and carves with natural authority and no little dexterity. Her crisply cut and satisfying forms live on in the mind… She is a force of nature.
    – Andrew Lambirth, Art Critic - Spectator Magazine

  • While working, Cassell becomes deeply involved in each piece to the point where she is unaware of her surroundings even watching her work on a piece for a few minutes, it is obvious that the process commands all her attention
    – Emmanuel Cooper

  • Cassell’s work encompasses and generates complexity and surprise. All of her sculptural work shares a language of geometry and volume but each is intriguingly different
    – Elli Herring

  • Her main preoccupation and sculptural impulse is to penetrate beneath the skin of the form to reveal the structure within – the crystalline seed of the stone, or the skeleton-like armature she perceives within the clay. She does not carve exteriors but reveals interiors – the folded abstract inner landscapes of her singular and highly imaginative vision.
    – Andrew Lambirth, Art Critic - Spectator Magazine