Let it Slip is a joint exhibition featuring the works of Prue Cooper, Hannah McAndrew, and Sean Miller as they celebrate their new slipware.
Slipware refers to the decorating process whereby slip, a liquid mixture of clay, is dripped, splashed, painted, or otherwise applied to leather-hard pre-fired ceramics.
The three ceramicists pay close attention to this visual dimension of their works, with Prue Cooper focusing heavily on the quotations that adorn the edges of her pieces, Hannah McAndrew using her 18 years of experience and practice to embody the floral abundance of her garden in her pots, and Sean Miller developing a range of functional domestic table and kitchen-ware influenced by English medieval and later traditions.
Although brought together by their mutual affinity for slip, each ceramicist explores unique aspects of their making and decorating process.
In this exhibition, Hannah McAndrew explores ways of translating love and recollections of a person into slip. Prue Cooper recalls conversations she had with her brother and utilises quotes and imagery to bring her pieces to life. Sean Miller experiments with variations of marbling and feathering techniques and enjoys observing the subtle differences to the final product once fired depending on where it is placed when it is wood fired.
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This exhibition profiles the works of eight esteemed makers, each of whom have recently been awarded Selected Member status by the Craft Potters Association.
Lise’s primary interests lie in creating decorative and sculptural forms with highly textured, expressive surfaces. The work is deeply rooted in the rugged landscape she grew up in in Norway, imbuing a sense of place, timelessness and quiet beauty within each piece, as if they were found, rather than made.
This exhibition profiles the works of ten esteemed makers, each of whom have recently been awarded Selected Member status by the Craft Potters Association.
As his working practice approaches fifty years, Jack Doherty’s work has become simpler and more focused. By stripping away what he considers unnecessary, Jack’s process now involves just one clay, one colouring mineral, and a single firing. For inspiration and courage, he looks back to prehistoric vessels, powerful anonymous objects that held both practical and spiritual significance in everyday life. These forms, made before art or craft, speak profoundly of their time and the people who lived with them.
“Simplicity is complexity resolved” - Constantin Brancusi
Lara Scobie is an Edinburgh based ceramic artist specialising in individual slip-cast vessels and bowls made in porcelain and parian clay. Focusing on the dynamic between form and pattern her work explores the cohesive integration of drawing, surface, mark making and volume. The off-center ellipses of the individual forms echo line drawings and decoration applied to the painted surfaces.
“The theme of balance is a constant, significantly underlining my current work in which ideas of dynamic interplay between form and surface develop.” – Lara Scobie
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