About
Born in Zimbabwe, Gregory Tingay learnt to throw at age 15. Graduating from Trinity, Cambridge, in Art History, Gregory joined the Buckfast Abbey as a Benedictine monk in 1990. He was apprenticed to Mary Boys-Adams in the monastery pottery – herself a pupil of Bernard Leach in the 40s. In 1999, Gregory moved to Quarr Abbey, Isle of Wight, where he established the pottery and was mentored by Molly Attrill with Arts Council funding. On leaving in 2008, Gregory taught and pursued his making practice for ten years in London at Dartmouth Park Pottery. He exhibited at the Arts Club, Mayfair, and at Cranley and PLY Galleries. In 2019, Gregory was Artist in Residence at Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, and co-founded Studio Pottery London, Belgravia, with Lucy Attwood, where he is Artistic Director. He showed at COLLECT in 2020 with the Studio and held a solo retrospective ‘Florilegium’ in 2022.
