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Award 2025
Award features ten UK-based artists working with clay who have created new work for the 2025 British Ceramics Biennial.
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Rare Earth Rising
Artist Mella Shaw returns to British Ceramics Biennial 2025 with a new work that draws attention to the urgent issue of mineral depletion and deep-seabed mining
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The Chimney Princess
For the People & Place Commission, Josie KO explores the importance of diversity in Stoke-on-Trent. Inspired by the city’s iconic bottle kilns, Josie has created a new goddess for the city.
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Raverina’s Dance Floor
Portuguese artist Carolina Garfo presents a sensory artwork exploring the intersection between sound and ceramics.
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Sweet Terrain
Sweet Terrain is a landmark public artwork by designers Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad and Rafael El Baz that connects construction waste, placemaking, industrial heritage and traditional craft.
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Fresh Talent 2025
Fresh Talent presents the new work of the five winners of BCB Fresh Talent 2023 which included a residency with a partner organisation.
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Just Be There
Johnny Vegas and Emma Rodgers present a new body of work addressing the beauty and transience of physical contact and interaction.
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Fresh 2025
Fresh 2025 brings critical attention to artists from all over the UK and Ireland at a pivotal moment in their careers.
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Clay Films
In its inaugural edition, Clay Films showcases the work of six Global Majority artists of African and Caribbean heritage from all over the world, including Iran, Mexico and South Africa.
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Ceramic Cities Exchange
Ceramic Cities Exchange creates international cultural exchange opportunities for young artists to expand their creative practice.
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Playscape
Playscape uses rammed earth – a sustainable, ancient construction technique – to explore how clay-rich waste materials can be transformed into a joyful, playful and creative public space.
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Playscape Project Space
The Playscape Project Space allows you to get hands-on, experiment and discover the ideas behind building with rammed earth.
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Slip Tales
Slip Tales provides an insight into BCB’s year-round programming. This community project focused on exploring and appreciating the heritage of Staffordshire slipware. Within the…
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University of Staffordshire
University of Staffordshire presents the work of the 2025 cohort, who have developed and expanded their practice on the Ceramics MA.
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Artist Talk – Alison Rees
Alison Rees presents a snapshot of green spaces in London and her experience walking the London Outer Orbital Path (LOOP).
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2025 British Ceramics Biennial Walk-up Tours
Join us for a little peek behind the curtain of the 2025 Biennial. Every weekend we are offering free tours to give you a rich…
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Artist Talk – Jo Taylor
Jo Taylor’s scaled-up vessels take inspiration from the frivolity, ornament and artisan skill of the Rococo period.
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Clay and Recovery Knowledge Exchange
Join us for an afternoon of sharing experiences and understanding of the use of clay-based activity within the context of drug and alcohol addiction…
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Artist Talk – Leah Jensen
Leah Jensen presents an unsettling collection of terracotta artefacts that call attention to the anxieties of moving.
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Artist Talk – Charlotte Moore
Charlotte Moore’s practice is informed by growing up in the post-industrial landscape of the Tamar Valley in Cornwall.
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From Waste to Resource Conference
From Waste to Resource will explore the opportunities and challenges in the creative reuse of construction clay spoil.
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Biennial Late
Experience the 2025 British Ceramics Biennial – after hours. 25 Sep 2025 at 5:30 – 9pm 2 Oct 2025 at 5:30 – 9pm including…
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Artist Talk – Kyra Cane
Using the familiar domestic form of the bowl, Kyra introduces purposeful stresses to make evident forces and near-breaking points in the making process.
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Artist Talk – Daniel Silver
Daniel Silver presents a collection of sculpted heads examining the tactile nature of materials, with clay serving as a foundation.
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Artist Talk – Susan Halls
Arkitypes takes a singular, simplified animal motif and duplicates the form into tall stacks, becoming architectural.
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Artist Talk – Noor Ali Chagani & Clio Lloyd-Jacob
The collaboration of Noor Ali Chagani and Clio Lloyd-Jacob is rooted in the forms and functions of brick and clay architecture.
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Artist Talk – Be There: Johnny Vegas and Emma Rodgers
Johnny Vegas and Emma Rodgers in conversation covering the breadth of their long-term collaboration and new artwork for BCB 2025.
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