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Contemporary Ceramics is the leading gallery for British studio ceramics.
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Contemporary Ceramics Centre is a retail gallery showcasing the best of British studio ceramics. Situated opposite the British Museum, the gallery has an annual exhibition program featuring national and international artists. With a regularly changing display, it is always possible to see and buy a wide range of work from functional tableware to individual collector's pieces.

23/11/2024

We're enjoying curating small collections for gifts and the dining table. Priced under £50, the gently crafted mugs by Jeremy Steward perfectly accentuate the delicate, soft brown tones of Motoko Wakana's tableware.

"The careful balance between this playful energy and the success of the pots ergonomically is at the very heart of my making. It is imperative that the pots feel right in the hand and that they are fit for purpose."

"Through my work I would like to help people to feel the seasons, like as they change their clothes every season. It's a bit difficult to explain in my vocabulary. My inspiration is from finding little differences (e.g., a plant bud or the taste of vegetables, etc.) in everyday life or typical scenery in every season. Maybe it’s better if I say, ‘My work is inspired by feeling the seasons in everyday life?’" Motoko Wakana

As we enter the run-up to Christmas, our shelves are filling up with new and exciting work from many of our favourite makers.

Follow the link and head to our online shop to discover more exiting new ceramics https://buff.ly/48fkmMa

Visit in person at Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell St, WC1B 3BF

22/11/2024

We're enjoying curating mini groups for gifting and for the dinner table. Soft yellows and rich browns connect thrown and decorated earthenware by Jennifer Hall with the clean lines of James and Tilla Waters' thrown tableware. All pieces are under £50.

Jennifer Hall's oven and tableware is made using traditional slipware techniques to create lively, comforting pots for food and drink. Jennifer throws the red earthenware clay on a geared kickwheel. She decorates her functional pots with sgraffito, dipped, poured, brushed and trailed slips, with colour from cobalt and iron oxides.

James and Tilla explain that "much of our work is intended for everyday use and there we aim for the pots to perform their functions well, to feel good in the hand or where they meet the mouth, and for their forms to have clean lines and balanced proportions. Some are glazed in plain colours, others with additional surface decoration that Tilla usually applies beneath a clear or semi-transparent glaze."

As we enter the run-up to Christmas, our shelves are filling up with new and exciting work from many of our favourite makers.

Follow the link and head to our online shop to discover more exiting new ceramics https://buff.ly/48fkmMa

Visit in person at Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell St, WC1B 3BF

19/11/2024

Touch and tactile surfaces connect Emma Lacey's hand-thrown domestic ware with Tessa Wolfe-Murray's Journey Bud Vases.

Emma Lacey's ceramics explore notions of what is known as emotionally durable design, "a new genre of sustainable design that reduces consumption and waste by increasing the durability of relationships established between users and products"*. Emma draws attention to the physical experience of using ceramics with her satin-matt surface glaze and soft indents.

Tessa Wolfe-Murray's slip cast earthenware vases take inspiration from her experiences when travelling – rock formations, beach debris, horizons, buildings and their surfaces, museum artefacts... Tactile surfaces are enhanced with finely sprayed slip and smoke firing.

*Jonathan Chapman, Emotionally Durable Design: Objects, Experiences and Empathy

Image L-R: Emma Lacey Tablewear, Tessa Wolfe-Murray Journey Bud Vases

As we enter the run-up to Christmas, our shelves are filling up with exciting new work from many of our favourite makers, and we're enjoying pairing different styles of work.

Follow the link and head to our online shop to discover more exiting new ceramics https://buff.ly/3q0Rwdj

18/11/2024

Softly thrown white porcelain cylinders by Karen Downing sit beautifully with Taja's hand-built mugs, glazed in blue green. Although using different making techniques, each maker works with the qualities of porcelain to exploit the material's nuances and character. Perfect for gifting and for the Christmas table. .porcelain

As we enter the run-up to Christmas, our shelves are filling up with exciting new work from many of our favourite makers, and we're enjoying pairing different styles of work.

Follow the link and head to our online shop to discover more exiting new ceramics. https://buff.ly/3q0Rwdj

14/11/2024

Inspired by her grandmother’s Willow Pattern collection, Rhian Malin continues the long historic tradition of hand-painting porcelain with cobalt-blue decoration. Her elegant wheel-thrown porcelain vessels are the chosen surface, created to stretch this tradition into the 21st Century. Soon to be in our online shop. Available from our gallery at 63 Great Russell St, WC1B 3BF.

As we enter the run-up to Christmas, our shelves are filling up with exciting new work from many of our favourite makers. Follow the link and head to our online shop to discover more exiting new ceramics. https://buff.ly/48NFhrq

13/11/2024

As our shelves fill up with new work from all our favourite makers, we're enjoying pairing different styles of work. Colour and texture create connections between the delicate raku vessels of Kate Schuricht and the hand-thrown porcelain of Juliet Macleod.

Follow the link and head to our online shop to discover more https://buff.ly/3q0Rwdj

Visit in person at Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell St, WC1B 3BF

12/11/2024

Lise Herud Braten's primary interests lie in creating decorative and sculptural forms with highly textured, expressive surfaces. Memories of growing up in a rugged landscape in Norway inform both shapes and mark-making, imbuing the pieces with a sense of place.

As we enter the run-up to Christmas, our shelves are filling up with exciting new work from many of our favourite makers. Follow the link and head to our online shop to discover more https://buff.ly/47t3W2l

Visit in person at Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell St, WC1B 3BF

11/11/2024

To mark the end of Akiko Hirai’s solo exhibition at Contemporary Ceramics, Ceramic Review has an amazing offer.

Readers get issue 330 Nov/Dec, featuring Akiko for an amazing price of £7.50 instead of the usual £9.99.

Go to ceramicreview.com and use coupon code AKIKO24 at the checkout.

09/11/2024

Today is your last chance to catch the wonderful Akiko Hirai, Sleep On It.

The exhibition, at 63 Great Russell Street closes at 6pm.

"“You cannot judge a finished piece immediately. You have to sleep on it. There are so many pots that I have slept on.” Akiko Hirai

Discover more here https://buff.ly/48xRErq

08/11/2024

Applications for close on 10th November.

For the chance to be part of this iconic ceramics fair, submit your application by Sunday.

Follow the link to discover more https://buff.ly/3Chn0GB

08/11/2024

As we enter the run-up to Christmas, our shelves are filling up with exciting new work from many of our favourite makers.

Birgit Pohl aims to balance precision of form with fluidity in the surface decoration or in the case of absent decoration, the tension created by a ‘stalk’ slightly knocked out of perfection. Although most of her pots can be used, functionality is not her primary focus – she is more drawn to making pieces that are pleasant to hold and that invite speculation about the stories behind the designs.

Follow the link and head to our online shop to discover more https://buff.ly/3AnOuKh

Visit in person at Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell St, WC1B 3BF

07/11/2024

“My vessels and installations can look like they are flowing, clay is contradictory like that. You’re using this beautiful soft material but to manipulate it my movements are directive, strong and controlled”. Tanya Gomez

As we enter the run-up to Christmas, our shelves are filling up with exciting new work from many of our favourite makers. From years working on sailing yachts, travelling the world and coastal living, Tanya Gomez has absorbed the abstract qualities of colour and shape, particularly at sea and uses this to inspire her art forms and evocative glazes.

Follow the link and head to our online shop to discover more https://buff.ly/4eiHcoR .

Visit in person at Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell St, WC1B 3BF

06/11/2024

As we enter the run-up to Christmas, our shelves are filling up with exciting new work from many of our favourite makers.

Climate change, coastal erosion, and marine litter, influence Juliet Macleod's work. She repurposes shoreline waste such as metal, plastic, and rope into handmade tools for abstract mark-making. These tools are used to generate painterly, unique marks and repeating abstract patterns that reference specific coastal landscapes and the effects of changing weather and light.

Follow the link and head to our online shop to discover more https://buff.ly/4eourKJ

Visit in person at Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell St, WC1B 3BF

05/11/2024

“My bottles, pods and teardrops are about colour and form. An individual piece works well but displayed in groups they become a three dimensional still life.”

As we enter the run-up to Christmas, our shelves are now filling up with exciting new work from many of our favourite makers. Sophie Cook, well known for her exquisitely thrown bottle-forms introduces calming neutrals that work well with her darker deeply matt surfaces.

Follow the link and head to our online shop to discover more https://buff.ly/46lsAlH .

Visit in person at Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell St, WC1B 3BF

04/11/2024

“Ancient stone circles, the South West Coast Path, the red and white clays of Devon are all touch points for my work, as is growing plants and seeing birds and other wildlife from day to day. It is a real journey of discovery as one inspiration leads to another.” Jill Fanshawe Kato

As we enter the run-up to Christmas, our shelves are filling up with exciting new work from many of our favourite makers. Jill Fanshawe Kato’s enduring fascination with the natural world stems from her upbringing in the Devonshire countryside and her subsequent travels.

Follow the link and head to our online shop to discover more https://buff.ly/3ALTKVP

Visit in person at Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell St, WC1B 3BF

29/10/2024

Just two weeks left to catch the amazing Akiko Hirai, Sleep On It. The exhibition closes Saturday 9th November.

"You cannot judge a finished piece immediately. You have to sleep on it. There are so many pots that I have slept on.” Akiko Hirai

Akiko Hirai tries not to control her materials but to let them and the unpredictable environment of the kiln dictate much of the resulting shape and colour of her work. She respects most the forms created by spontaneity, saying that it reflects her unconscious mind more.

Follow the link to shop the exhibition https://buff.ly/48xRErq
Visit in person at Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell St, WC1B 3BF

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CLOSING THIS WEEK | NEW MEMBERS OF THE CRAFT POTTERS ASSOCIATION Until Saturday 24th February. Running until Saturday 24th February 2024, at 63 Great Russell Street, WC1B 3BF, this exhibition showcases sixteen artists who demonstrate the diversity of working with clay. Shop the exhibition here https://buff.ly/3U6EfBc

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A glimpse inside our front window with Sue Mundy and Lise Herud Braten, two new members of the Craft Potters Association and taking part in our current exhibition. Discover more here https://buff.ly/3U6EfBc

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If you've passed by the gallery during the last couple of days, you may have noticed the beginnings of our shop-front re-design. New signage, expertly painted by Ben Siddle will be followed by a new colour scheme. We are looking forward to the final results.