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 works 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.
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