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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.
Kate creates sculptural vessels which explore the transformational nature of time on human experience. Her practice involves a continuous investigation of structure and surface, with particular emphasis on ceramic materials, fragmentation and transfiguration. Kate’s making process consists of the tearing, breaking and joining of clay to create organic forms with undulating edges, fault lines and fissures.
Agalis Manessi is a ceramic artist working from studios in London and Corfu, where she was born. After studying ceramics at the Central School of Art & Design, she was inspired by the teachings of Gordon Baldwin, Eileen Nisbett and Dan Arbeid who encouraged her enthusiasm for the plastic qualities of terracotta clay. After graduation she set up a studio in Hackney where she was a founding member of Broadway Ceramics and taught in further education. In 2018 she relocated her studio to Kennington in south London.
Micki makes wood-fired salt-glazed tableware, fired to a high stoneware temperature. Travelling in India in 1968, Micki came across their ubiquitous everyday earthenware pots. She loved the connection between the earth and the pots and was introduced to throwing on a Leach wheel by Gurcharan Singh of Delhi Blue Potteries.
His work is influenced by landscape settings, especially the wild rugged beauty of Connemara and Donegal, and the dramatic West Wales coastline. He incorporates geological elements, natural colours, as well as the marks of human activity on the landscape into his vessels. He is interested in addressing the relationship we have with the landscape.
Ella is drawn to clay’s unique ability to preserve the act of making, and to how both conscious and unconscious moments of touch become held within the surface of the ceramic object. Her work demonstrates a strong relationship between surface and form, informed by a BA in Painting and Printmaking and an MA in Ceramics. Ella references historic ceramic artefacts, social and painting theory, exploring ideas around the mark of the maker, temporality, trace and place.
Wendy’s work is characterized by playfulness, gentle colour palettes, and illustrative qualities. She crafts both functional and non-functional pieces, drawing on a versatile foundation of slab building, pinching, and wheel throwing. Wendy’s recent practice focuses on intuitive, freehand mark-making across slabbed and thrown forms. By layering slips and glazes, she creates rich patterns and a painterly surface depth that celebrates the spontaneous interaction between form, colour, and texture. Wendy is a Fellow of the Craft Potters Association, having first joined as a student member after graduating in ceramics from Derby College in 1990.
