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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Alumni Showcase, Clay College, Stoke
16 August - 14 September
Clay College celebrates the success of their Diploma Graduates in their latest gallery exhibition!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sara Moorhouse at Cambridge Contemporary Art
10 October - 2 November
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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