Ceramics exhibitions, UK

Here you’ll find ceramics and pottery exhibitions all round the UK. Got a thing with ceramics? You’re in the right place.

  • Elizabeth Fritsch: Otherworldly Vessels, Hepworth Wakefield

    8 March - Spring 2026

    A survey exhibition of one of Britain’s foremost ceramicists, Elizabeth Fritsch. The exhibition will bring together over 100 works made between the 1970s and 2013 drawn largely from the artist’s own rarely-seen private collection.

  • Typographic poster for exhibition

    Lessons in Chemistry: Oxidation & Reduction, Clay College, Stoke

    25 January - 6 April

    7 UK_based studio potters whose inspiring work demonstrates the diversity of stoneware pottery and the beauty of handmade craft.

    Freya Bramble-Carter, Iona Crawford Topp, Isatu Hyde, Miae Kim, Peter Sparrey, Yo Thom, Mizuyo Yamashita.

  • 3 ceramic vases

    Tell Me A Story, Gallery 57, Arundel

    29 March - 17 May

    A group exhibition featuring work by Sophia Passmore (pictured), Fliff Carr, Louise Bell, Becky Little amongst others.

  • Ceramic decorated vessel

    Anna Lambert, Contemporary Ceramics, London

    3-26 April

    Anna Lambert makes hand-built earthenware ceramics using various techniques including slab-building, modelling and painted slips. Using a variety of techniques, each of her pieces are entirely unique.

  • Edgelands, County Hall Pottery, London

    18 March – 4 May

    Step into the overlooked, yet deeply evocative, spaces at the fringes of our built environment. Edgelands is an exhibition that navigates the shifting borders between city and countryside, where forgotten industry meets untamed nature, and where transformation happens quietly, beyond the gaze of the everyday.

  • Desire & Despair, Gallery 40, Brighton

    20 May - 1 June

    Ceramic sculptor Steve Bicknell and artist Elizabeth Bourne combined show at Gallery 40, North Laines , Brighton.

  • Salt & Soda, Clay College, Stoke

    12 April - 15 June

    This exhibition features work by six internationally renowned studio potters who are masters of atmospheric firing techniques with salt and soda. These atmospheric firing techniques are a labour of love and require the potter to tend the kiln for hours at a time. 


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