Goldmark 39, 2026

2026 is almost upon us; another year flies by the gallery at breakneck speed. Winter issues of our magazine afford a brief moment of reflection on projects past, and a glimpse of what’s to come. We managed to put on four shows by Japanese potters this year, something we’ve never done before, ending with our eighth show of pots by the revered Ken Matsuzaki, whose Shino wares you’ll find illustrating this issue.

2025 also marks five years since Phil Rogers, the man who introduced us to Ken, passed away all too soon. His irrepressible spirit remains with us in the extraordinary pots he left behind him, also celebrated here. As for next year, we have a calendar quickly filling up with major exhibitions and live music. Do keep an eye out for what’s to come. In the meantime, we hope the New Year brings you every joy. Mike Goldmark

CONTRIBUTORS

Hilary Davies is a poet and essayist. She has published four collections with Enitharmon Press; her fifth collection, Compass Light, was published by Renard Press in September 2025. She has been an Royal Literary Fund Fellow at King’s College, London and the British Library, and is a Fellow of the Temenos Academy. She is a former Chairman of the Poetry Society, and a Hawthornden Fellow. In 2023 she was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year award. She has contributed to Art and Christianity, The Visual Commentary on Scripture, and The Tablet, and writes regularly on the poet and artist, David Jones.

Dr Julian Freeman Freeman is an independent Art Historian, author and critic, specialising in twentieth century British art, but writing and teaching on broader topics as a tutor and Co-ordinator in HE and FE. Since 2017 he has enjoyed a role as Gallery Educator for The Courtauld’ Public Programmes, and since 2021 has contributed to Goldmark diaries and exhibition catalogues.

David Whiting is an art critic and curator. His publications include a monograph on the late potter Gordon Baldwin, and for Goldmark the painter Robert Dawson. His most recent book, published in 2024, is Seeing with Another Eye; The Anthony Shaw Collection (arnoldsche). His study of the work of the artists John Copley and Ethel Gabain, also for Goldmark, is forthcoming.