Elliot Mountain has begun his four-week artist residency at the BCB Studio in Stoke-on-Trent. He is one of four artists awarded a Fresh Talent Prize at the 2025 British Ceramics Biennial – the single largest contemporary ceramics event in the UK. Each prize includes an artist residency at a leading academic and cultural institution.
Selected by a panel of advocates for contemporary art and making, the four prize winners were chosen from BCB’s Fresh exhibition, which celebrates artists at a launch moment in their practice, championing artistic discovery and the courage of new beginnings.
Elliot will use the facilities and resources of the BCB Studio throughout his residency with support from BCB staff. He will be embedded in the studio environment, including weekly Open Studio days available to our studio members. Along with this, he will be giving an artist talk in the studio to share his work with BCB Studio members and staff. His current work has a focus on ceramic furniture, creating a series of stools from mixed materials. He has been incorporating a variety of ceramic techniques, including wheel throwing, hand-building and slip casting alongside digital skills.
“Stoke is great, full of history, helpful people and pottery. I’ve been slowly prepping for this residency for a while, making tests, prototypes, etc., so now I can rush out the gate and spend days just in my work. I really value the time and space to make work and breathe.”
-Elliot Mountain, BCB Studio artist-in-residence
About the Artist
Elliot Mountain is a Yorkshire-born artist based in London working across ceramics, sculpture, and craft. His practice explores the relationship between the built environment, material memory, and the body through clay. Using locally sourced clays, he creates large-scale ceramic installations and sculptural objects that sit between functional and fine art contexts. His work draws on traditional craft processes, with a focus on hand-making, mould-making, and experimental approaches to scale and structure.
Elliot’s practice reflects an ongoing interest in labour, place, and the tension between organic and industrial forms. He graduated from The Glasgow School of Art and was awarded the Fresh Talent Prize at the British Ceramics Biennial in 2025.
See more of Elliot’s work here.