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.

  • Three abstract sculptures resembling stylized trees or flowers with geometric patterns, arranged on a wooden surface against a plain white background.

    Sladers' Yard Summer Print Fair, Bridport

    19 July - 13 September

    Original wood engravings, woodblock, aquatint, carborundum, drypoint and silkscreen prints by Julian Bailey NEAC, Merlyn Chesterman RE, Michael Fairclough NEAC RE, Martyn Brewster ARE, Sally McLaren RE, Howard Phipps SWE ARE RWA

    Björk Haraldsdóttir ceramics

    Petter Southall furniture

  • Patterned ceramic jug

    Walter Keeler at Contemporary Ceramics, London

    21 August - 13 September

    Walter Keeler’s work grows from his passion for ‘pots from the past’ and the joy of making and firing. It also inevitably reflects the world and times in which he lives. Walter hopes his pottery brings with it seriousness, some humour and sensual pleasure. 

  • A man in a green shirt standing in a field of tall grass holds ceramic vases of various sizes with turquoise glaze and golden accents, with a landscape and cloudy sky in the background.

    Seedscapes at Wakehurst, West Sussex

    4 July - 14 September

    An exhibition of art, sculpture, and sound set throughout the gardens, inspired by the science of seeds, and the groundbreaking research carried out daily at the Millennium Seed Bank, now celebrating its 25th anniversary.

    Brighton-based sculpture artist Adam Ceramic’s impressive piece of over 500 hand-sculpted clay seeds will be set just outside the Seed Bank.

  • Poster for alumni showcase

    Alumni Showcase, Clay College, Stoke

    16 August - 14 September

    Clay College celebrates the success of their Diploma Graduates in their latest gallery exhibition! 

    Tuesday – Friday: 10am – 3pm 
    Saturday & Sunday: 11am – 3.30pm 

  • Artwave Festival, Lewes, Sussex

    6 - 21 September

    In their 32nd year, Artwave continues to be one of the largest visual arts festivals in the South East. There are more than 160 venues in the 2025 festival, with free-to-visit exhibitions in private homes, studios, potteries, windmills, railway stations, farms and churches. Includes Gillshaw Pottery, Clayful Hands, Ceramics at the Waldron & Peter Cuthbertson Ceramics.

  • Decorated ceramic vessels

    Decorated: The Sculptural Ceramics of Ebony Russell

    22 May – 25 September

    Acclaimed ceramic artist Ebony Russell presents a solo exhibition with Brookfield Properties, in partnership with Crafts Council at 99 Bishopsgate in the City of London. Meanwhile, Adorned: Celebrating Craft and Form – on view at nearby 30 Fenchurch Street – features works by the four other finalists alongside the winner, Russell. Both exhibitions are free to attend.

  • Small ceramic bowl

    Jack Doherty at Beaux Arts Bath

    8 September - 4 October

    Jack’s work explores the ancient layers of cultural resonance embedded within archetypal forms. Made from porcelain, the vessels are thrown then carved and shaped reflecting the fluidity of the material and physicality of making.

  • Strata by Joanna Bailey, Whitespace, Edinburgh

    3 - 5 October

    Joanna Bailey is a ceramic artist living and working in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her latest work, STRATA,  is a deeply personal collection exploring the dichotomy between perception and permanence. How we experience the world and how we and the world change over time.

  • Black and white ceramic vase

    Katharina Klug at Cambridge Contemporary Art

    12 September - 5 October

    Wall sculptures by Sean Thornhill

    Ceramics by Katharina Klug, Barbara Gittings & Francis Lloyd Jones

    Bronze sculptures by Alice Andrea Ewing

  • Black & white ceramic vessel

    The Liner, The Rigger & The Sword, Contemporary Ceramics

    18 September - 11 October

    Ant & Di Edmonds’ present work has been developed over the past six years. All the pots are coiled by Ant and subsequently pinched, scraped and beaten into shape. The decoration is applied by hand, a full time occupation for Di. The monochromatic designs and abstract patterns are drawn and adapted from many sources including Pueblo Pottery of New Mexico and 1960s Op Art.

  • ceramic vessel like a sea urchin

    Scottish Potters Association Showcase at Made in Stirling

    13 September - 12 October

    This showcase is the SPA’s 2nd exhibition in 2025. The showcase is in collaboration with Made in Stirling, and will show the works of the 45 members that are taking part. 

    Members exhibiting make their work using different techniques including throwing, handbuilding and sculpture. They use a variety of clays, earthenware, porcelain and stoneware. Work shown by Rona Slevin.

  • 3 ceramic vessels

    Taïr Almor at RSA House, London

    25 July - 31 October

    Ceramicist Taïr Almor’s work is on display at The Coffee House, RSA House, 8 John Adam Street, London, WC2N 6EZ.

  • Group of ceramic vessels

    Make Southwest Maker Member Show, Bovey Tracey

    28 June - 1 November

    In 2025 the 70th Maker Member annual show at the Jubilee Gallery is celebrating their Membership, showing selected work from Maker Members, and through 'behind the scenes' stories of their making community.  Jennifer Amon’s work pictured.

  • Smiling man outside gallery

    Richard Miller: Ceramist in Focus, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham

    13 September to 1 November

    A leading figure in British ceramics, Richard Miller is known for combining traditional craftsmanship with contemporary design. His work draws on historical patterns and the complex narratives of British colonialism, creating ceramics that are both technically accomplished and thought-provoking.

  • Sara Moorhouse at Cambridge Contemporary Art

    10 October - 2 November

  • Colourful ceramic object

    Freedom In Clay, Clay College,Stoke

    20 September – 2 November 

    Clay College Stoke will be exhibiting a collection of ceramic artwork, by some of the biggest names in the studio pottery industry for their next exhibition, ‘Freedom in Clay’. 

    The exhibition is a celebration of the art of hand-built pottery and will feature the work of Japanese master potter, Ken Matsuzaki alongside the stunning work of Koichiro Isezaki, Ruth King, Petra Steward, Judy McKenzie, Elly Wall, Sue Mundy and Haejong Lee Rogers. 

  • Green ceramic vase

    Collaborative, County Hall Pottery, London

    13 September - 9 November

    A cross-disciplinary exhibition for London Design Festival 2025 that explores the creative potential of connection through clay. Rooted in the tactile and transformative nature of ceramics, Collaborative brings together five leading ceramic artists, each paired with a creative practitioner from a different discipline. Spanning music, woodworking, architecture, and culinary arts, these partnerships reimagine ceramics as a shared language of innovation, functionality, and artistic dialogue.

  • Decorated plates on a wall

    100 Years, 60 Designers & 1 Future, The Potteries Museum & Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent

    12 June - 7 December

    The brainchild of Emily Johnson, 1882 Ltd.’s creative director and co-founder, , this specially commissioned collection of plates has been hand decorated by 1882 Ltd.’s potters, working from a piece of artwork donated by 60 of the UK’s leading artists, architects, designers, musicians and creative polymaths.

  • Four decorative vases with geometric patterns and colorful designs, with one large tilted vase in the center.

    Elizabeth Fritsch: Otherworldly Vessels, Hepworth Wakefield

    8 March - Spring 2026

    A survey exhibition of one of Britain’s foremost ceramicists, Elizabeth Fritsch. The exhibition will bring together over 100 works made between the 1970s and 2013 drawn largely from the artist’s own rarely-seen private collection.


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