Erum Aamir
Having been a physicist, and undertaken microscopic studies of plants, Erum Aamir is fascinated by forms, shapes and patterns that appear deep down in matter and living organisms. Erum makes intricate porcelain sculptures that are a fusion her artistic imagination and her scientific research.
Sue Gunn
Her work explores visual and conceptual parallels between the body’s inner structure and flow systems found in the natural world. She is fascinated by the ambiguity of these connections, observing how veins and arteries mirror the intricate networks of roots, rivers and lava. A hand builder, Sue assembles tubes of porcelain or terracotta paper clay into intricate tangled structures evoking the complex, fragile pathways in both body and nature.
Tom Knowles Jackson
Tom Knowles Jackson makes pottery for everyday use – pieces for the table, kitchen and home – each inspired by the ritual of eating and drinking. Captivated by the balance between form and function, Tom sees the glazes that he applies to his pots as “clothing” that accentuate the strong shapes.
Judy McKenzie
The ancient process of Nerikomi lends itself beautifully to reinvention, Judy McKenzie continues to push the boundaries of her imagination to create different and unique ways to manipulate coloured porcelain, seeking inspiration from the natural world around her and the skies above.
Sue Pryke
Sue Pryke sets out to create objects that sit comfortably in the home, that aren’t awkward, audacious or tricky to use, but are familiar, have fluency and sit effortlessly. Having worked firstly as a production thrower in the 1980’s and later at Wedgwood as a designer, Sue is intrigued by process, the history of tableware and particularly repetition of form.
Loraine Rutt
With clay as the tangible connection to Earth’s surface, Loraine Rutt’s ceramics explore how maps influence our sense of place and belonging. Relief maps and domestic scale plates and vessels are decorated with cartographically accurate drawings following the tradition of Narrative Ceramics.
Schneider Schneider
Schneider Schneider’s punk-baroque sculptures explore margins of functionality and aesthetic standards. They reference the richness and overload of sensual, visual and cultural exposure of a London based artist. Their work revels in friction and contradictions, they aim to ride the boundary between a range of binary opposites in a way that invites speculation and tests powers of interpretation.
Shirley Vauvelle
Shirley Vauvelle makes assemblage sculptures handbuilt in stoneware and porcelain. Her work is inspired by the scale, balance and power of nature and her emotional responce to it. She often uses movable insert components within the sculptural forms to allow for interaction, alteration and play.
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Sue’s work draws on the quiet resilience of trees and bones—forms shaped by time, marked by fragility and carrying memories of growth and decay. Through slow, receptive hand-building, each piece develops as if guided by an internal rhythm. Textured surfaces hold lines like weathered stories, while a soft matte glaze evokes a sense of calmness.
‘My hurt, my joy, my scars, my healing, all shape the work I create in clay.’ – Sue Mundy
Jenny Southam hand builds figurative sculptures in terracotta clay. She delights in exploring colourful gestural mark-making over their surfaces. This painterly decoration aims to echo the emotional resonance of each piece.
“When I enter the studio I am searching for that serene state of absolute absorption that making and drawing can gift us, which we all wish will, in some manner, enrich our audience.” – Jenny Southam
In a career spanning nearly 50 years, ceramicist, Sophie MacCarthy has developed a unique and distinctive personal style. Through her subtle and bold use of coloured slips, painterly brushwork, stencils and wax-resist, she evokes the colours, forms and movements of the passing seasons. Often focusing on the ground, she finds beauty in the accidental compositions created by wind-blown leaves, stalks and detritus sometimes gathered around a storm drain or scattered over concrete and tarmac, juxtaposing the vibrant colours of the natural world with the gritty textures of the urban environment.
‘She has a poetic insight into the natural world’ David Whiting
Throughout his long career Peter has always sought pathways to the development of new ideas. Often this is a slow process, but sometimes a particular event speeds things along.
Partaking of two residencies in China recently, where Peter worked in porcelain at high temperatures, led him to develop a new body of work, made alongside his existing practice to which Peter is still deeply committed.
This new exhibition represents the outcome of Peter’s working practice.
'This exhibition explores objects that express a quiet equilibrium: fragile, shifting forms that exist in a state of delicate imbalance. Their stillness is easily disturbed, as if the act of holding too tightly might cause something essential to disappear. The works reflect an interest in forms that resist perfection, remaining slightly unresolved, unsettled, and quietly alive.' Akiko Hirai