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.

Sarah Villeneau

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.

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Alasdair Neil MacDonell

Alasdair Neil's ideas focus on the strange beauty found in the decaying architecture of industrial wastelands. He has built up a large collection of clay and plaster moulds that he has made from the surfaces of found fragments of discarded waste. It is these textures, patterns, shapes and colours that form the thread that runs throughout his entire range of  unique hand built forms

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Miae Kim

Miae began working with clay after a long career in the film industry as an animator and visual effects artist in Los Angeles. She did not encounter clay until later in life, but its tactile and transformative nature captivated her immediately. She pursued formal training at Glendale College in L.A., completing a ceramics programme in 2018 before establishing a home studio. She moved to London in 2020, where she now lives and works.

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Liz O’Dwyer

Liz studied Fine Art Sculpture at Kent Institute of Art and Design, although her love of working in three dimensions began at an early age. After teaching for several years, she attended a range of short courses at The Ceramics Studio. In 2016 she made the decision to focus her career on ceramics and set up her studio in Kent, where she now produces her work.

Liz creates wheel-thrown porcelain pieces that are both functional and sculptural. Modern, clean, crisp lines, alongside the purity of the porcelain, create a contrast for the strong inlaid lines that cut through the surfaces. The wheel enables her to experiment with variations of form that she wants the viewer to be drawn to.

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Jessica Thorn

Jessica’s latest collection of porcelain plates showcases the importance of convivial connections between ceramics, food and community, which is at the heart of her practice. It was born from a need for playful experimentation, deftly embodying the freedom of making, unbounded by rules or functional constraints.

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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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