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.

  • Stoke on Clay logo

    Stoke on Clay Festival 2024

    7 September – 19 October

    This year’s festival promises to be even bigger and better with more exhibitors and an exciting programme of events at inspiring venues across the city, including Spode Museum Trust, Brampton Museum, Clay College, Lost & Found, Barewall Gallery and Stoke Minster.   

  • Clay sculptures in a room

    Phoebe Cummings: I hear myself with my throat, Chichester

    11 May - 20 October

    At the Pallant House Gallery, experience art like never before with Phoebe Cummings’ unfired clay sculpture. Using raw clay, she will shape the artwork to mirror the features of the house. Cummings will recycle the clay at the end of the exhibition.

  • black and white patterned ceramic vessel

    Material Pattern, Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford

    3 - 26 October

    Material Pattern presents a new collection of decorative ceramic vessels by Ant & Di Edmonds of Tydd Pottery, with wall-based textile art works by five leading textile artists Jacob Monk, Michelle House, Maxine Sutton, Jo Evans & Rachna Garodia.

    Sarah Wiseman Gallery, 40-41 South Parade, Oxford OX2 7JL

  • ceramic jug and tools

    Ceramicus, Alton, Hampshire

    5 October - 3 November

    Established in 2014, Ceramicus is a group of eleven locally based potters, including one sculptor. The group will be exhibiting a range of works at the Allen Gallery, each artist showing their individual approach to creating and firing clay objects. 

  • Ashraf Hanna at Beaux Arts Bath

    14 October - 9 November

    Please join the Directors of Beaux Arts for the opening evening on Saturday 12 October 6-8 p.m. The gallery is open 10-5 Monday to Saturday or by appointment on Sunday. 

  • Poster for the exhibition

    Formations in Clay Furniture, London

    14 September - 10 November

    At County Hall Pottery, County Hall Belvedere Road SE1 7GP you'll find this revelatory exhibition that explores and reimagines the role of ceramics in furniture design.

  • Ceramic piece by Neil Dewey

    Print Press Fire Glaze, Chichester

    26 November - 8 December

    Oxmarket Contemporary in Chichester is delighted to bring together 16 printmakers and 21 ceramicists in a unique exhibition. The ceramicists are some of the most talented, high-quality practitioners in The Southern Ceramic Group.

  • Lubna Chowdhary: PLURIVERSE, Sheffield

    4 July - 21 December

    At Graves Gallery, Surrey Street, Sheffield, PLURIVERSE, a major new exhibition will present Lubna Chowdharys most recent work, including new drawings and sculptures developed during residencies in India and Italy earlier this year.

  • Body & Soul, Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester

    10 - 22 December

    An exhibition of contemporary ceramics by sculptor Steve Bicknell. Private view: 10 December, 6-8pm.

  • colourful ceramic vessels

    Playful, Gallery 57, Arundel

    9 November - 22 December

    This exhibition at Gallery 57 includes Carolyn Genders, Natalie Bell (pictured), Rachel Peters and Sue Herman.


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