HYLTON NEL, Things Made Over Time

211pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Hurtwood Press & Stevenson, London & Cape Town, 2025

ISBN: 9780903696944

This new monograph on South African artist-potter Hylton Nel presents a selection of his distinctive ceramics from the 1960s to 2024 - plates, bowls, vases and cat sculptures decorated with joyful, witty, and sometimes poignant line drawings and script. The book also explores his vast inspirations - from Staffordshire pottery to Tang Dynasty China.

Foreword by Kim Jones, who paid tribute to Nel in his Dior Homme Summer 2025 menswear collection, presented at Paris Fashion Week in June 2024.

Also includes:

"Politics and poetics of cats" an essay by art historian by Tamar Garb

"Hylton Nel at home in Calitzdorp", a photographic series  by Pieter Hugo

"Hylton Nel in his own words", drawn from statements made over the years as well as recent conversations with Marc Barben.

Hylton Nel was born in 1941 in N'Kana, Zambia, and grew up in the Northern Cape, South Africa. He studied fine art at Rhodes University and specialised in ceramics at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp. In the 1970s and 1980s he lectured in Port Elizabeth (now Gqebertha); at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, and Stellenbosch University.  In 1991 he moved to the small town of Bethulie in the Free State, and in 2002 to Calitzdorp in the Klein Karoo. Previous monographs on his work include Hylton Nel and Hylton Nel: a Curious World. This book is a third volume in the series.