Championing the very best independent ceramic makers for over 60 years

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.

 

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Meet Our Makers

All of our makers are members of the Craft Potters Association and each of them have a story to tell.

Gaby Guz

Gaby’s current focus is making saggar-fired, wheel-thrown pots. What originally drew her to this type of making was the interplay between the highly controlled form, and smooth, polished, surface texture of the piece on the one hand; and the ‘seemingly’ random nature of the surface marks created by smoke and metallic, chemical reactions, on the other.

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Geoffrey Swindell

Geoffrey Swindell was born in Stoke-on-Trent. First studying painting, it wasn’t until he took up a summer job at the Pottery at Alton Towers that he decided to follow in the footsteps of his ancestor and become a potter.

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Sue Gunn

After a career in the fashion industry, Sue began her journey in ceramics in 2017 as a beginner at Putney School of Art. Captivated by the tactile nature of clay, she went on to study on the HND Ceramics course at Morley College London, graduating in 2020. She is currently completing her BA in Ceramics at Morley.

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Angela Verdon

Angela has been working in ceramics for over 50 years. Her first experience of clay was at after school class, leading to a Foundation Arts Course in Derby, then a BA in Wolverhampton, and an MA at Royal College of Art London. The latter two degree courses were very open-ended and encouraged exploration of other materials and a wide variety of working methods. This suited Angela as she has always been interested in both industrial production processes and sculptural techniques.

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Josefina Isaza

Josefina is a Colombian born ceramicist living and working in London. She gained a BFA in crafts from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, under the guidance of world-renowned potter, James Makins.

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Emily-Kriste Wilcox

Emily-Kriste is a Birmingham-based ceramic artist whose hand-built vessels explore the relationship between landscape, memory and material. Working with slab-built white earthenware, she approaches clay as a painter approaches canvas, creating one-of-a-kind pieces that bring elements of the natural world into contemporary interiors.

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