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.
Having grown up in East Germany, a spirit of friction and tension between perceived opposites informs much of Schneider’s work. Their punk-baroque sculptures operate at the margins of functionality and aesthetic convention, riding the boundary between binary opposites in ways that invite speculation and test both the powers of interpretation and the materiality of clay.
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.
Inspired by a Chinese bottle gifted to her as a child, each piece Carolyn makes assumes its own identity with the application of transferred decoration. Collected imagery and text tell stories from lives past and present centring around the human condition and covering themes both significant and trivial.
Sophie Cook creates delicate porcelain vessels that marry the elements of colour and form. Graduating in 1997 from Camberwell School of Arts, her work can now be found in collections across the world and in 2002 she was awarded the Adrian Sassoon Award of the Kiln at Chelsea Crafts Fair.
Jin Eui Kim is an internationally renowned ceramic artist. Originally from South Korea, he now lives and works in Cardiff, UK.
Whilst at Cardiff School of Art & Design, Jin Eui studied the illusory effects of the application of tonal bands to three-dimensional surfaces. He graduated with an MA and PhD in Ceramics.
Jim Malone has been making pots for over forty years, gradually establishing an international reputation. Having exhibited widely over many years, both in Britain and abroad, Jim's work is represented in numerous private and public collections, including York Museum and Art Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.