Author: CeramicsCoop
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Clay and ceramics shows to see in London
It’s a beautiful sping in London, and it is a very good season to see some ceramics shows. Our very favourite special is Holly Stevenson’s artwork in Freud Museum. We worked closely with the artist at the start of her ceramics journey, and it feels like a very special celebration of her masterful focus and dedication to the art of clay and glaze.
Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur at Wallace Collection. The exhibition includes ceramics, tapestries, furniture and collage, displayed alongside some of the Wallace Collection’s masterpieces. 28 March-26 October 2025
Jokes Topple Taboos (2025) Ceramic: Glazed Stoneware Image ©Holly Stevenson Holly Stevenson: Tracing the Irretraceable at Freud Museum. The exhibition presents Stevenson’s ceramic sculptures dedicated to reading Freud through his personal collection of objects. 14 May 2025 to 29 June 2025
Self-Made: Reshaping Identities at Foundling Museum. An exhibition of contemporary ceramics reflecting on the complexities of identity and self-creation. 15 Nov 2024 – 1 Jun 2025
The Whole World In Our Hands at The Stephen Lawrence Gallery unites six UK-based women artists who use clay as a medium to reveal, rupture, resist, and reconnect. April 12, 2025 – 17 May, 2025
Congratulations to our studio member Lesley Boerio, her work is in the window display at Selfridges at Oxford Street this month. What a beautiful way to celebrate ceramics!
Lesley Boerio, L&Clay Ceramics, image is by Lesley Boerio, 2025 -
We Are Featured In The Evening Standard!
Check out latest Evening Standard article on cooperatives in Lewisham! What a joy to read about local cooperative projects in mainstream press. Great thanks to the editing team for reaching out to us, what a beautiful 10th anniversary moment for us.
If you would like to learn more about the studio, our about page has a lot of information about your values and principles.
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Ceramics Coop is 10!
Today we are celebrating 10 years since the legal entity holding Ceramics Studio Co-op had been registered. Starting with a dream of an impossible, and working through challenges and demands for personal growth, constant improvement, day-by-day learning, it’s been a humbling journey. We’ve met incredible people on the way, and have seen hard times and immence beauty created by human hands just like our own.
The workshop asked us for personal sacrifices, hard work, and readiness to be changed. We did not always accept it, but stayed with what had to be done for it’s existence. Sometimes this space carried us through great personal challenges, and we are grateful for it.
The community that gathers around and within the studio had been a beautiful source of joy, co-learning and co-creating together. Not just clay and ceramic pieces we get to make next to one another, but we are co-creating ourselves though creative work we undertake together, through being with each other in its pain and glory. Doing this in the community of like-minded and deeply passionate people is rewarding and life-transforming experience, and we are thankful for it.
We do wonder often what it means to create space for clay and its people, and take responsibility for who gets to participate and practice within the frame that the workshop can offer. Clay has its healing and connecting power. As a collective media where firings and space are shared, and conversations continue we create meaning around our work and how we share it. Being both at the edge of it and in the eye of the storm is the most rewarding journey.
Seeing our studio become a generative part of the artistic community of London that champions ceramics arts has been humbling and beautiful. We are grateful for each and every person who came in, contributed, attended classes and free events, fired their sculpture and pottery, and especially for our studio members who are at the heart of this community. It is such a joy to work with you and for you, it is such a joy to follow your ceramics journeys and see you strive for excellence, develop, change, become your best selves, and nourish your talents as artists and makers of things.
We are also grateful for funding that Arts Council England and Lewisham Council awarded us, and all kind and humble help from Cooperatives UK, their staff and business advisors, all tasty meals and coffees served to us by local businesses and cafes. We would not be here without you, and we are lucky to be here with you.
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Save Brixton Cycles Fundraiser
A pottery workshop in Deptford is no different to a bike workshop in Brixon. We all thrive on skill excellence, democratic principles and communities we create. It is a pleasure for us to support Brixon Cycles in their campaign to fundraise after a difficult end of 2023. We encourage our customers, guests and visitors to support this brilliant cooperative, and be part of their 40+ year journey serving communities in London.
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Open Studios 2-3 December 2023
Save the date! Our annual open studios wil be on 2-3 December. We will have displays of pottery and sculpture for sale, technique demonstrations and festive treats. Can’t wait to celebrate winter season with you.
20 makers from the studio will have stalls with ceramics for sale.
We will have mulled wine, mulled juice and other treats for our visitors.
Demonstrations and experiences tbc.
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Our new kiln named after Lucie Rie
We are delighted to introduce our newest addition to the studio equipment, a state-of-the-art 330 litre front loader kiln. We named our new biggest kiln so far after Dame Lucie Rie, prominent Austrian-born British studio potter, recently celebrated by a in-depth show in Kettles Yard.
With the promise of advanced technology and precise temperature control it gives us many hopes for the kinds of creations may now be envisoned and fired with us. This kiln is our first front loader, and it will take some time for Tatiana to learn ins and outs of how to make the most of it, but it is very exciting step forward, especially for sculptors we work with.
If you are looking for a community kiln hire, do get in touch with us via firing service page or contact form. It is our passion to make kilns available to the community of makers and artists in London. After 10 years of continuous work with so many sculptors and artists we have enough experience to be able to help almost anyone.
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Open Studios 3-4 December 2022
You are warmly invited to our annual winter Open Studios, a unique opportunity to meet and buy directly from ceramics and pottery makers who base their practice in Deptford.
3 December 14:00-18:00
4 December 12:00-17:00
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Open Studios Weekend 14-15 May 2022
We are excited to invite everyone to our Open Studios Weekend, when more than 50 local artists are opening their studios to visitors. The event is organised alongside ACME and Second Floor Studios, and it a part of London Craft Week. No Format Gallery right next door to us is hosting an annual Drawing Open exhibition.
We will present most recent ceramics work make in the Ceramics Coop, with some pottery for sale.
Demonstration times TBC.
14 May 2-6pm
15 May 12pm – 2pm
Star Glazy – stoneware piece by Sarah
Open Studios will feature work by:
Derek Abel
Baskakovas
Stoneware cup and plate by Baskakovas duo. -
Deptford Ukraine Fundraiser – 31 March
We are so pleased to be to contribute to Deptford Ukraine community fundraiser and support aid to Ukrainian Refugees.
You can buy raffle tickets in advance here! And have a chance to win one of the places at our Throwing on Potter’s Wheel taster class!
The Deptford Ukraine Fundraiser is going to be a night of DJs, food, raffles and auctioning.We have bagged some extremely generous prizes from artists, makers and givers all local to Deptford.The prize draw will be taking place next Thur 31st at Villages. The money raised will be going to the Disasters emergency committee Ukraine humanitarian fund.
See you there!
