The latest news, updates, stories, and behind-the-scenes insights from County Hall Pottery. Here, you’ll find in-depth articles on our current and upcoming exhibitions, exclusive interviews with featured artists, and highlights from our workshops, collaborations and community.
In Conversation with Kazuya Ishida
Can you start by introducing yourself and sharing an overview of your artistic practice? I was born into a family of potters here in Bizen, Japan, a town renowned as one of the six 'ancient kilns' and celebrated for its traditional, unglazed, high temperature fired...
In Conversation with Juliet Ferguson Rose
Can you start by introducing yourself and sharing an overview of your artistic practice? Juliet Ferguson-Rose I am an artist living and working in London, my practice assembles personal, prehistorical and topographical references. As an artist and sculptor primarily...
In Conversation with Toni De Jesus
Can you start by introducing yourself and sharing an overview of your artistic practice? I’m a ceramic artist whose work explores themes of identity, memory, and belonging—using my practice as a way to navigate and make sense of my place in the world. My approach is...
In Conversation with Jynsym Ong
Can you start by introducing yourself and sharing an overview of your artistic practice? I am a studio potter making high fired mostly functional ware currently living and working in Oxford. I have studied ceramics at Clay College in Stoke On Trent and was selected as...
In Conversation with Jim Gladwin
Can you start by introducing yourself and sharing an overview of your artistic practice? Been working with clay/ceramics for 50 yrs making and teaching on some of the prestigious ceramic courses in the country: Goldsmiths college, Loughborough University and...
In Conversation with Ian McDonald
Can you start by introducing yourself and sharing an overview of your artistic practice? Ian McDonald. Virgo. I am currently the Artist-in-Residence and Head of the Ceramics Program at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in the United States. I’ve been involved in ceramics...
In Conversation with Ho Lai
Can you start by introducing yourself and sharing an overview of your artistic practice? I am Ho Lai, ceramics artist from Hong Kong based in London. I find poetics in the transformation of materials, working with an approach that is both subversive and experimental....
GLOST Glaze Pop-Up Shop Comes to County Hall Pottery
We’re thrilled to welcome the GLOST Glaze pop-up shop to County Hall Pottery as part of our current exhibition, GROUNDWORKS, running from 12 May to 29 June. This is a rare opportunity to experience GLOST’s beautiful glazes in person - see them up close, get inspired,...
Kiln as Classroom – A Week of Wood Firing with Oxford Kilns
The County Hall Pottery team - joined by students, friends, and guest artists - embarked on a week-long wood-firing journey at the legendary Oxford Kilns in May. We pitched our tents in the rolling Oxfordshire countryside, surrounded by green fields, ancient trees,...
In Conversation with Steven Sales
Steven Sales is an artist and educator from the Isle of Wight, currently based in Bristol. He is co-founder of the studio initiative Clay Shed. His work has been showcased in exhibitions across the UK and Europe, including the British Ceramics Biennial and...
In Conversation with Sara Howard
Sara Howard is an award-winning London designer, building new systems in pursuit of circularity and regeneration in the ceramic industry and beyond. Sara graduated from Central St. Martins in 2020 and has since collaborated with Kevala Ceramics to produce a tableware...
In Conversation with Phil Root
Phil Root is a visual artist who uses ceramic processes to explore the material limits of sculpture, functionality, and form. He likes to invert the techniques of traditional craft pottery to make something which enquires into its own making. He works with foraged and...
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