Ceramic Odyssey 2126 - County Hall Pottery

2126: A Ceramic Odyssey

17 March – 3 May 2026

Curator: Jihyun Kim

2126: A Ceramic Odyssey is a curated exhibition that imagines the future of ceramics through the lens of bio-futurism. The exhibition explores how ceramic practice might evolve in the year 2126, in a world where human ingenuity, living organisms, and material intelligence are deeply intertwined.

The exhibition presents works by contemporary ceramic artists whose practices already push beyond conventional material boundaries. Their ceramic forms appear otherworldly and ethereal, provoking curiosity and wonder, inviting viewers to question how these objects are made and what materials they used. Through experimental craftsmanship and innovative material languages, the artists reinterpret nature, biological systems, and organisms in ways that align with bio-futuristic thinking.

Each artist is reimagined by both the curator and the artists themselves, as a future maker in 2126. The works speculate on how ceramic objects might be formed in a future where humans collaborate with living organisms, creating symbiotic, sustainable, and continuously evolving environments. In this imagined future, ceramics are no longer motionless objects but hybrid being that blur the boundaries between the natural, the technological, and the biological.

2126: A Ceramic Odyssey invites audiences to step inside a speculative future of ceramics. These works encourage viewers to imagine what the future might look like through the lens of clay, expanding perceptions of ceramics as a medium with limitless possibilities. The exhibition proposes ceramics as a material capable of transforming into anything, shaping worlds, ecosystems, and futures yet to be imagined.

Exhibiting artists: Jihyun Kim, Toni Losey, Uriel Caspi, Tessa Eastman, Eiair (Hassakorn Hirunsirichoke)

Artists

Jihyun Kim

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Jihyun Kim, a ceramic designer from South Korea, melds tradition with enchantment in her craft. Jihyun’s creations beautifully blend sculptural and functional elements, inspired by her cultural heritage and nature’s mystical aspects. Holding a Master of Arts in Ceramics and Glass from the Royal College of Art, her work is internationally recognised, and showcased at esteemed events like Milan Design Week and the British Ceramic Biennale.

Eiair (Hassakorn Hirunsirichoke)

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Eiair is a Bangkok-based ceramic artist passionate about creating small-scale sculptures. He has participated in residencies and exhibited internationally across Asia, Europe, and the United States. His intricate creature forms express nature’s fragility, assembled from countless tiny elements and refined through years of dedicated practice.

Toni Losey

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Toni Losey is a ceramic artist based in Halifax, Canada. She holds a BFA from NSCAD University. Awards include Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist (2020) and recognition at the Cheongju International Ceramics Biennale (2023). Residencies include Cluster Craft London. Exhibitions include Collect London, Design Miami, and Ceramic Art London.

Uriel Caspi

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Uriel Caspi’s artworks propose an interplay between the revival of ancient crafts and contemporary art studio practice. His recent Corpus Archetypus series features anatomical organs of the “Posthuman”, as a sculptural investigation of the morphological and conceptual relations between the human body and the ceramic vessel. By extrapolating the familiar human genetics into abstract forms, where nature and technology become indistinguishable. The surface is glazed in Arabian luster formulated with precious metals, which appears as a reflective- iridescent luster after the firing. The quality of the glaze is reflecting aesthetics from antiquity and a visionary environment from the future at the same time. From early childhood, ceramic artist Uriel Caspi (b. 1994) has been fascinated with clay. He earned a BFA in Ceramics from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem (2018), and an MFA from Alfred University, New York (2021). Caspi has exhibited works and installations in museums, galleries, and art fairs in the United states, UK, Europe, Israel, Taiwan, and Japan.

Tessa Eastman

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Tessa Eastman was born in 1984 in London where she continues to live and work. Creativity and innovation sit at the heart of her practice and collectors are drawn to the originality, skill and the daring approach she brings to ceramic art. Building pieces by hand, she draws inspiration from form as seen through a microscope or in the sea and sky. She explores strangeness of growth where systems flow and digress. Eastman’s playful aesthetic lends itself to the abstract cloud-like formations or curiously ambiguous sea-like creatures that appear to inhabit her work. The artist creates uncanny pieces where idiosyncratic shape, the combination of solid and open forms, bulbous and interlaced, accretive and geometric, weighs with the attention she gives to surface. Coarse and smooth, soft and glossy, pristine and weathered textures are presented, following research into glaze science. Eastman’s studio is at Cockpit, a community of leading craftspeople. She graduated from the University of Westminster (2006) with a Ceramics BA Hons, and gained a Ceramics MA (2015) from The RCA. She has been working with clay since age six and she has been exhibiting internationally since 2006.