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Artist Feature – BCB Mentee James Verity
James is an aspiring hand-builder who uses his own struggle with severe ADHD and poor mental health as inspiration for his sculptural work.
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Artist Feature – BCB Mentee Crunch Willoughby
Crunch is a self-taught ceramic artist incorporating wild clay embellishments into their functional thrown pieces.
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Artist Feature – BCB Mentee Rosie Aspinall Priest
For Rosie A. Priest, discovering clay was a turning point in their journey with ADHD and became a way to soothe a restless mind.
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Artist Feature – BCB Mentee Edie Evans
Edie is an artist exploring the intersection of ecology, neurodiversity, and materiality through clay.
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Artist Feature – BCB Mentee Remi Russo
Remi Russo is a British-born, Italian artist sharing his experiences of isolation through surface texture and organic form.
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Artist Feature – BCB Mentee Karamdeep Sohal
Karamdeep is a 3D designer and maker with a strong connection to clay, influenced by academic background and cultural heritage.
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2025 British Ceramics Biennial Promo Film
The 2025 British Ceramics Biennial is a free, six-week celebration of contemporary ceramics that will feature the work of over 60 artists. Spode Works…
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BCB 2023 Panel Talks – Material Re-use and Viability
Material Re-use and Viability focused on how construction waste can be used by creatives in a carbon-responsible way.
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BCB 2023 Panel Talks – The Career of an Artist
The Career of an Artist was an insightful and candid panel discussion about the realities of being a contemporary artist.
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BCB 2023 Artist Talks – Nicola Tassie
Hear more about the work Nicola Tassie made for Award 2023.
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BCB 2023 Artist Talks – Jasmine Simpson
Hear more about the work Jasmine Simpson made for Award 2023.
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BCB 2023 Artist Talks – Mella Shaw
Hear more about the work Mella Shaw made for Award 2023.
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BCB 2023 Artist Talks – Carrie Reichardt
Hear more about the work Carrie Reichardt made for Award 2023.
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Transferer project film
The Transferer project film was commissioned to highlight the impact of Transferer within Stoke-on-Trent schools.
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BCB 2023 Artist Talks – Elspeth Owen
Hear more about the work Elspeth Owen made for Award 2023.
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BCB 2023 Artist Talks – Dan Kelly
Hear more about the work Dan Kelly made for Award 2023.
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BCB 2023 Artist Talks – Rebecca Griffiths
Hear more about the work Rebecca Griffiths made for Award 2023.
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BCB 2023 Artist Talks – Copper Sounds
Hear more about the work Copper Sounds made for Award 2023.
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BCB 2023 Artist Talks – Rebecca Appleby
Hear more about the work Rebecca Appleby made for Award 2023.
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Award films 2023 – Nicola Tassie (BSL interpreted)
Boundary End by Nicola Tassie questions the ideas of the spaces we inhabit and the boundaries that are enforced on people and communities.
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Award films 2023 – Nicola Tassie
Boundary End by Nicola Tassie questions the ideas of the spaces we inhabit and the boundaries that are enforced on people and communities.
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Award films 2023 – Jasmine Simpson (BSL interpreted)
There are devils in my house by Jasmine Simpson is inspired by 16th Century Hellmouth fireplaces which featured ceramic sculptures of little devils.
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Award films 2023 – Jasmine Simpson
There are devils in my house by Jasmine Simpson is inspired by 16th Century Hellmouth fireplaces which featured ceramic sculptures of little devils.
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Award films 2023 – Mella Shaw (BSL interpreted)
Sounding Line by Mella Shaw focuses on the overuse of marine sonar which is having a devastating effect on deep-diving whale species.
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Award films 2023 – Mella Shaw
Sounding Line by Mella Shaw focuses on the overuse of marine sonar which is having a devastating effect on deep-diving whale species.
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Award films 2023 – Carrie Reichardt (BSL interpreted)
Mad in Stoke by Carrie Reichardt is a 1969 Ford Zodiac car covered in mosaic tiles inspired by Stoke-on-Trent’s rich and radical nightlife history.
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Award films 2023 – Carrie Reichardt
Mad in Stoke by Carrie Reichardt is a Ford Zodiac covered in mosaic tiles inspired by Stoke-on-Trent’s rich and radical nightlife history.
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Award films 2023 – Elspeth Owen (BSL interpreted)
Beyond Repair by Elspeth Owen addresses the fragility of clay and our desire to mend it when it breaks.
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Award films 2023 – Elspeth Owen
Beyond Repair by Elspeth Owen addresses the fragility of clay and our desire to mend it when it breaks.
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Award films 2023 – Dan Kelly (BSL interpreted)
Looking North by Dan Kelly is a series of pots which represents a deeply personal view of London, an ever-changing city.
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Award films 2023 – Dan Kelly
Looking North by Dan Kelly is a series of pots which represents a deeply personal view of London, an ever-changing city.
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Award films 2023 – Rebecca Griffiths (BSL interpreted)
OUTAGE by Rebecca Griffiths imagines a future landscape in which remnants of the nuclear power industry have been dredged from the North Sea.
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Award films 2023 – Rebecca Griffiths
OUTAGE by Rebecca Griffiths imagines a future landscape in which remnants of the nuclear power industry have been dredged from the North Sea.
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Award films 2023 – Copper Sounds (BSL interpreted)
Sequenced Ceramics by artistic duo Copper Sounds is an intimate sonic installation in which ceramics are played by mechanical beaters.
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Award Films 2023 – Copper Sounds
Sequenced Ceramics by artistic duo Copper Sounds is an intimate sonic installation in which ceramics are played by mechanical beaters.
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Award films 2023 – Rebecca Appleby (BSL interpreted)
Gaia by Rebecca Appleby is her interpretation of the theory that everything is connected.
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Award films 2023 – Rebecca Appleby
Gaia by Rebecca Appleby is her interpretation of the theory that everything is connected.
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Recast Podcast Episode 5
This is the fifth and last episode in a series of five podcasts about the Recast programme. About Recast Podcast Episode 5 The…
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Recast Film 2023
The Recast Film was created by acclaimed filmmaker, Thomas Payton-Greene using footage captured during the Recast Residency 2023.
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Talent Development Programme: Week 3
This week’s programme includes artist, researcher and writer Clare Twomey, studio potter Isatu Hyde and artist and researcher Anna Francis.
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Talent Development Programme: Week 4
Leading the programme for week 4 is artist and potter Helen Beard, artist and educator Matt Smith, artist and researcher Sam Lucas and lecturer, practice-based researcher and learning designer Dena Bagi.
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Recast Podcast Episode 4
This is the fourth episode in a series of five podcasts about the Recast programme. About Recast Podcast Episode 4 In this special…
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Recast Podcast Episode 3
This is the third episode in a series of five podcasts about the ReCast programme. About ReCast Podcast Episode 3 In the ReCast…
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Recast Podcast Episode 2
This is the second podcast in a series of five about the Recast programme. About the Recast Podcast Episode 2 In the Recast…
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Recast Podcast Episode 1
This is the first podcast in a series of five about the ReCast programme. About the Recast Podcast Episode 1 In the Recast…
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‘Gathering’ workshop at Etruria Canals Festival 2022
In June 2022, B Arts Stoke invited us to run a clay workshop during the Etruria Canal Festival. This short film documents the workshop’s activities and some of the behind-the-scenes processes of the museum.
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Foundations Project Film
The Foundations Project Film explores the process of refining clay. Students from our Foundations project took clay that had been dug up from the earth and learned how to process it down into a usable material.
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Talent Development Programme: Week 2
This week starts with artist and BCB Studio & Community Programme Manager Joanne Mills, Service Manager at Stoke Recovery Service Vicky Lomas. Following that is artist and initiator Phoebe Collings–James of Mud Belly Ceramics. Lastly we hear from artist-researcher and podcaster Eva Masterman and lecturer along with practice-based researcher and learning designer Dena Bagi.
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Talent Development Programme: Week 1
This is the first talk in the BCB Talent Development programme that took place during our 2021 festival. The programme was developed in partnership with the creative business development programme Factory and led by BCB’s Artistic Programme Manager, Rhiannon Ewing-James.
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BCB 2021 Artist Talks: Cleo Mussi
In Cleo Mussi’s work for BCB Award 2021, art meets science whilst exploring taxonomy, tribe, leaf and clay.
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BCB 2021 Artist Talks: Mawuena Kattah
Mawuena Kattah embodies a strong sense of pattern & narrative in her ceramics, influenced by African wax print textiles & Iznik design.
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BCB 2021 Artist Talks: Helen Beard
Helen Beard is a potter and illustrator and a people watcher at heart. She makes, draws, designs and sometimes teaches from her London studio.
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BCB 2021 Artist Talks: Christie Brown
Christie Brown explores the relationship between archaeology and psychoanalysis, and references the mythology, narrative and symbolism associated with clay.
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BCB 2021 Artist Talks: Alice Walton
Alice Walton works with coloured clay throughout its various states, aiming to highlight the meditative process of the material.
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BCB 2021 Artist Talks: Jin Eui Kim
Jin Eui Kim works in-between the concepts of illusion and reality and his work attracts viewers by visual phenomena as well as physical confusions appearing on the surface.
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BCB 2021 Artist Talks: Connor Coulston
Connor Coulston is a ceramicist whose practise is defined by the ongoing conversation between his self-deprecating sense of humour, wild imagination and the materiality of clay.
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BCB 2021 Artist Talks: Laura Plant
Laura Plant focuses her practice as a designer on the balance between beauty and function, material and process.
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BCB 2021 Artist Talks: Pam Su
Pam Su is an American ceramics artist based in London. Her work harnesses mood, tone, atmosphere into static forms occupying space.
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BCB 2021 Artist Talks: Steve Dixon
Steve’s work operates at the intersection of art and craft. He combines traditions of fine craftsmanship with visual narrative to examine the social and political issues of our troubled times.
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BCB 2021 Artist Talks: Toni de Jesus
During BCB 2021, Creative Producer Rhiannon Ewing-James sat down with Toni de Jesus, one of the many talented artists exhibiting in the biennial. Through…
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BCB 2021 Artist Talks: Ho Lai
During BCB 2021, Creative Producer Rhiannon Ewing-James sat down with some of the many talented artists exhibiting in the biennial. Through these talks, artists…
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#ClayAtHome Salt Dough Recipe
Don’t have clay? Fear not, we’ve got a recipe for a clay alternative – Salt Dough! In this video, BCB Education Manager Natalie Armitage…
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Growing Cultures: CLAY Museum
As part of the project, BCB education manager Natalie Armitage worked with Associate Artist Joanna Hejmej and The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery. Over…
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Growing Cultures: Haywood Hospital
During February 2019, BCB worked with patients and staff at the Haywood Hospital on our Growing Cultures project. Patients from the Sneyd Stroke Rehabilitation Unit…
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Growing Cultures: Burslem Jubilee Project
The Burslem Jubilee Project provides support, companionship and activity for asylum seekers and refugees who are currently living in Stoke-on-Trent. In Growing Cultures we…
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BCB 2021 Round Up
A short film to thank everyone who made our programme of films, tours and talks possible for BCB 2021. Particular thanks goes to Arts…
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BCB 2021 – Practice
We like to build strong relationships with our local communities. We work with a number of different community groups and organisations across Stoke-on-Trent. We…
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BCB 2021 – Place
British Ceramics Biennial is a festival of exhibitions and hands-on events that celebrate the life, character and creativity that ceramics bring to the city….
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BCB 2021 – People
BCB want to build strong relationships with our local communities. We want everyone in the city to benefit from the social, educational and health…
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Welcome to the Festival 2021
Welcome to British Ceramics Biennial 2021. BCB returns to Stoke-on-Trent (11 September to 17 October), with a vibrant five-week festival of new artist commissions,…
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2019 Festival Review
An overview of British Ceramics Biennial 2019 by The Design Edit. Words by Grant Gibson Film by Joseph and Michael Doran. Read the…
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