Contemporary Ceramics gallery and shop exhibits the greatest collectable names in British ceramics along with the most up and coming artists of today. Our distinguished makers are all carefully selected members of the Craft Potters Association.
All of our makers are members of the Craft Potters Association and each of them have a story to tell.
Anja Lubach grew up in Germany and graduated from the Royal college in 2000. She spent a month on Residency at the German manufacturer Rosenthal where she was free to explore porcelain as creative medium.
Ali Tomlin creates wheel thrown porcelain. Focusing on the smooth, white surface the quality of porcelain for making clean, elegant shapes creates a canvas for her careful decoration, adding colours and marks she creates her well known range of contemporary ceramics.
Sue first picked up clay during A Levels and immediately made a connection with the material. As a farmer’s daughter, messing about with soil was second nature, but being able to construct and make vessels felt like another level. A part time job at a local pottery introduced her to production throwing and wider opportunities arose as she enrolled onto a Ceramics degree course. She began to explore slip casting and model making, finding that turning plaster on a lathe was akin to turning ribbons of clay on a thrown bowl. The qualities of the materials are similar, each endeavouring to express a particular attribute. Winning an RSA Student Design Award with a placement at Wedgwood firmly rooted her interest in industrial ceramics, and a full time role as a shape designer followed.
Adam uses a single pure jar form as a canvas to map his observations from an ongoing study of his surroundings. He incorporates stone and locally dug clay into his work to create a narrative, one that conveys a unique sense of place.
With a training in art, design, and ceramics culminating in an MA in ceramics, Sarah creates ceramic sculptures. Taking the idea of clay as a metaphor for the body, and the body as vessel, her work explores these concepts through an abstracted study of the physiology and corporeality of the body.
Patricia has been living and working on the Isle of Skye for the past 25 years. Her work is informed and inspired by the powerful landscape of the island.
