British Ceramics Biennial 2021. Image Jenny Harper

Call for early-career creatives working in clay

Do you feel that you face barriers in having a creative career? Apply for our new Talent Development Mentoring programme. Deadline: 29 May 2022

'Flux' by Matt Smith, displayed at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge

Our new workshop programme has launched

'Community of Practice: Stories beneath the surface' interrogates the authority and versions of told history through contemporary ceramics using museum collections, archives, oral histories and unofficial archives.

Image Adam Grüning

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Image by Jenny Harper

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Making change through clay.

The British Ceramics Biennial (BCB) develops, sustains and expands innovative ceramics practice and improves lives together with artists and creative communities. We do this by delivering an engaging year-round programme of artists’ commissions, education and community projects. All of which feed into a festival of contemporary ceramics that takes place in Stoke-on-Trent. Initiated in 2009, the BCB festival has grown to be the single largest contemporary ceramics event in the UK. We present artworks from the UK’s leading ceramicists alongside work by international artists, in exhibitions and special events held across the city.

British Ceramics Biennial is proud to be an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation and is supported by the City of Stoke-on-Trent Council and Staffordshire University.

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