Adele Howitt
Adele Howitt utilises clay as both a sculptural and technical medium in which to investigate the notions of the living landscape, abstraction and natural patterns. Her continuing research includes drawing, printing, macro photography and microscopic imagery which she studies and develops into clay. Slab work is twisted and turned to add detailed relief utilising the traditional pottery techniques discovered whilst investigating the UK historic potteries.
Jihyun Kim
Jihyun Kim’s work is inspired by Korean cultural heritage. She utilises elements from Korean fairy tales, folk beliefs and superstitions. Raised by her grandmother, Jihyun was taught certain habits and rituals to follow. After moving to a new country she realized how deeply her grandmother’s lessons had influenced her and made her cherish my ancestral teachings. Jihyun incorporates components from these stories into her work, interpreting them into functional and sculptural designs.
Miae Kim
Attracted to the excitement of wondering what a closed form contains whilst drawing on her Korean heritage and experiences growing up in the USA, Miae Kim creates ceramic boxes. Her pieces explore the relationship between East and West, mixing fragments of old Korean motifs, repeated patterns from Korean architecture then mixing them with modern lines and simple patterns of the West.
Russell Kingston
Russell Kingston works in the slipware tradition. His pots are made for the kitchen, oven and table with function at their heart to enhance the everyday cooking and eating experience. His work, while being deeply rooted in North Devon’s heritage and country pottery traditions, has a contemporary freshness to it. Russell’s pots are thrown, slabbed and extruded, using very few tools in order to preserve the human touch and champion the hand making processes, made quickly with confidence, capturing the energy of the making.
Liz O’Dwyer
The wheel thrown porcelain pieces Liz O’Dwyer creates are both functional and sculptural. The surface of each piece is linked by a continuous line that leads the veiwers’ eye over the contours of the form, from the outside surface, over edges, around the interiors and under the base. These crisp cobalt lines, alongside the purity of the porcelain, create a striking contrast that cuts through the surfaces.
Omer Oner
Omer Oner’s artistic practice revolves around the idea of repurposing found objects by regenerating and assembling them into highly crafted ceramic forms. Omer employs mould-making and slip-casting techniques to replicate and multiply a diverse array of discarded materials, providing the artist a wellsprings of opportunity and inspiration.
Ella Porter
Ella Porter is drawn to clay’s unique ability to preserve the act of making, as both conscious and unconscious moments of touch are held in the surface of the ceramic object. As she explores ideas surrounding the mark of the maker, temporality, trace and place her work displays a strong relationship between surface and form and refers to historic ceramic artefacts, social and painting theory.
Jo Walker
Jo Walker creates both wheel-thrown and hand-built ceramics, primarily using the sgraffito technique for decoration. Her work draws inspiration from two distinct sources: the simplicity of modernist architecture alongside the bold, geometric patterns of mid-century design and the fragile beauty of wild plants and flowers.
Deiniol Williams
Ultimately, Deiniol Williams’ primary interest is in creating ceramic forms that push the boundaries of what clay is capable of and deliberately encourages what would commonly be referred to as a fault or an accident. The use of fluid glaze heightens the movement in the work and counterbalances the splits and cracks that appear as inclusions distort, melt and tear the structure of the clay.
Michelle Young-Hares
Michelle Young-Hares’ ceramic sculptures aim to communicate a meaningful connection to the natural world through a joyful expression of form, texture, and pattern in clay. The artist has a particular interest in botany and plant forms and draw imagery from their reproductive organs which she find to be exquisitely beautiful and innovative in design.
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.
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