Ceramics
From Josiah Wedgwood to Grayson Perry, Britain has a great tradition of ceramics. Keep up to date with this ever developing tradition with Culture24 news, exhibition reviews, event listings, web reviews and more from UK
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Julian Stair, Quietus: The Vessel, Death and the Human Body at National Museum Cardiff
The dextrous potter and writer explores the age-old relationship between pottery and human burial rituals in a Cardiff display of beautiful vessels.
The Leach Pottery reveals its east-meets-west ethos in Shigeyoshi Ichino Memorial Exhibition
One of the later Japanese potters to work at the Leach is celebrated with a show celebrating the East-West flow of ideas began by Bernard Leach during the early 20th century.
Craft Society showcases Ceramic Sculpture from Suffolk at Town Hall Galleries in Ipswich
Colourful earthenware, fantastical figures and minimalist forms all feature in a Suffolk Craft Society show featuring some of the county's best at Ipswich Town Hall Galleries.
Leventis calling: Ceramic art, Craft and Tales from Medieval Cyprus at Fitzwilliam Museum
Dozens of ceramics from ancient Cyprus have gone on show at The Fitzwilliam Museum in a must-see for potters and fans of medieval European sartorial finesse.
Gordon Baldwin's Objects for a Landscape accompany Art of the Potter at Gallery Oldham
Oldham welcomes a display by the artist who was part of a generation of experimental sculptors during the 1950s, as well as a new permanent pottery gallery.
Steel dogs and coppiced willow tree sculptures as the Ferrers Gallery enjoys Animal Magic
A playful show to spark the imagination for the opening one of the year at the Ferrers in Leicestershire, where visitors will be treated to beautiful sculptures celebrating nature.
Sculpture shaper Gordon Baldwin reveals his influences in Excitations at York Art Gallery
Ahead of a major retrospective of his 60-year career next year, revered sculptor Gordon Baldwin picks key influences from York Art Gallery's collection for a new display.
Pottery and archaeology unite in Out of the Earth at Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
Potter Chris Carter and archaeologist Martin Green collaborate for an exploration of Cranborne Chase, a plateau which stretches across Dorset, Wiltshire and Hampshire.
British pottery is alive and well at the British Ceramics Biennial 2011 in Stoke
The second British Ceramics Biennial showcases a wide variety of ceramic art at the former Spode factory and the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, as well as other locations across Stoke.
British Ceramics Biennial announces 24 artists and 40 "stars of the future" for 2011 festival
Former Jerwood Prize winner Philip Eglin and some of the best new UK ceramic talents head for the Potteries Museum and a former factory in Stoke-on-Trent.
Latest works by top object designers star in Sitting and Looking at Somerset House
Rhiannon Starr finds furniture, ceramics, coloured glass and filters of oil in a ten-artist show in London.
British Ceramics Biennial returns home to Stoke-on-Trent for autumn 2011
The British Ceramics Biennial returns to Stoke-on-Trent for autumn 2011 with six weeks of exhibitions, site-specific installations, artist residencies and creative responses to the region’s......
In Pictures: The Craft Council's COLLECT 2011 takes contemporary crafts to the Saatchi Gallery
The international art fair for contemporary objects returns to the Saatchi Gallery, London, presented by the Crafts Council.
Pablo Picasso ceramics collection of Richard and Sheila Attenborough are Leicester legacy
Ceramics made by Picasso in France and given to Leicester by the Attenboroughs go on show at the New Walk Museum.
Grayson Perry leads future art stars in Manchester Art Gallery exhibition
The potter extraordinaire, whose newly-acquired works form the centrepieces of an exhibition curated by local young people, has led a workshop for 20 of Manchester Art Gallery's teenage creative......
