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 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...
In Conversation with Natalia Kaspryzycka
Natalia Kasprzycka is an artist interested in the circulation and transformation of matter. Her practice is preoccupied with material narratives and decoding landscapes through visual language and hands-on engagement. She often works collaboratively, and in a...
In Conversation with Julia Ellen Lancaster
Julia Ellen Lancaster, a Royal College of Art graduate, works in London and Kent. She completed residencies in St Ives (2020) and RMIT, Australia (2024). Exhibiting globally, she teaches ceramics and sculpture, is a Royal Society of Sculptors member, and has been...
In Conversation with Hyeonyoung Kim
Currently residing and operating out of Seoul, South Korea, HyeonyoungKim(b.1995) holds both Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts degree in Ceramic Art from the Seoul National University of Science and Technology(SeoulTech). She won the GCB Excellence Award at the...
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