Piet Stockmans

 HOW NICE IT IS TO BE CREATIVE

How nice it is to be creative

with a simple material such as clay.

I did it my whole life
and still have new ideas.
How wonderful to express myself

every day
with this white gold
as porcelain is called.

Always
in the same philosophy
of tactility and vulnerability.

Piet Stockmans

1969 - 1998 Professor of Industrial Design at the Institute of Higher Education in Limburg

1983 - 1985 Professor of Ceramic Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven

 

Awards:
Ion Award, Good industrial design, Maastricht, Netherlands, 1987
Official Prize from the Flemish Community in 1988 for Visual Arts, Belgium
Award “Art and smell”, perfume packaging, 1993, Netherlands
Cultural Ambassador of Flanders 1995, Belgium
Award “Auszeichnung RED DOT für Höchste Designqualität”, Nordrhein Westfalen, Germany, 1996 Henri van de Velde price for a career, Design Vlaanderen, 1998, Belgium
First Prize category Design for tableware LA MER, European Ceramic Context, Bornholm, Denmark, 2006

 

Public Collections:
PMMK - Oostende, Belgium Designmuseum - Gent, Belgium
Museum De Stadsmus - Hasselt, Belgium
Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche - Faenza, Italy Stedelijk Museum - Amsterdam, Netherlands Haags Gemeentemuseum - Den Haag, Netherlands Boymans-van Beuningen - Rotterdam, Netherlands Stedelijk Museum - Schiedam, Netherlands Museum Het Princessehof - Leeuwarden, Netherlands Gemeentemuseum - Arnhem, Netherlands Stadskantoor Zwolle - Zwolle, Netherlands Museum of Arts and Design – New York City, NY, USA Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Los Angeles, CA, USA Metropolitan Museum - New York City, NY, USA Long Beach Art Museum – Long Beach, CA, USA Racine Art Museum – Racine, WI, USA
Carnegie Institute – Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA Mint Museum of Craft and Design – Charlotte, NC, USA Ceramic Res. Center – Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ, USA Newark Museum of Art – Newark, NJ, USA George R. Gardiner Museum - Toronto, Canada Musée National de Sèvres – Sèvres, France
Icheon Ceramic Center – Icheon, South Korea Victoria & Albert Museum – London, UK