Exhibition dates:
Fri 13 to Sun 22 September
Opening Times: 10 am to 4pm
Thursdays to Sundays
Friday 13 September 2023 – 6pm to 8pm (by invitation)
We are delighted to host September Ceramics 2024 at City Arts Newbury!
Organised and curated by Katherine Kingdon and Helen Long, the show is a themed exhibition which takes advantage of our building’s great sense of light and space.
Stallholders are selected from amongst our local ceramicists and potters. This year they will also be bringing their choice of pieces for our ‘Up and Coming’ makers competition.
Prizes are kindly donated by City Arts Newbury, Scarva Pottery Supplies, Bluematchbox Pottery Supplies and Ugly Duckling Pottery Painting Café, with awards for both the stall holders and the Up and Coming makers
Demonstrations, meet the makers and taster sessions take place during the first weekend.
Book Tickets for Taster Sessions
EXHIBITORS 2024
In 2024 we welcome the following ceramicists to September Ceramics: Katherine Kingdon, Helen Long, Rebecca Maynard, Ally Keeling, Lizzy McCracken, Susie Pots of Hope, Anne Dalton and Leah Blake.
Katherine Kingdon
Katherine’s ceramics is full of character and storytelling. Her figures seem to be caught mid action and a sense of playful ambiguity draws you in and challenges your imagination. All her work is hand-built, with a mixture of applied, incised and hand-modelled detail.
Helen Long
I have taken inspiration from the wild seas; transforming coloured porcelain into organic forms with fluidity and power. I hope to highlight the plight of our beautiful oceans with this work.
Ally Keeling
My work is developed using hand building techniques and is fired to stoneware. I am interested in the relationship between form, textural surface, pattern and colour, distilling visual impressions from my surroundings.
Anne Dalton
Anne enjoys creating thrown stoneware plates and bowls that are then carved or embossed to depict a variety of sea creatures or other natural forms. She is also busy exploring the contrast in surface texture between glazed and unglazed toasted stoneware in her stoppered vases and bowls.
Rebecca Maynard
I create handbuilt earthenware and stoneware ceramic sculpture using bold simple forms. My work ranges from small birds in vibrant blues to larger head sculptures.
Lizzy McCracken
I make tin glaze earthenware thrown vessels and tableware decorated with sgraffito technique through a wash of cobalt oxide.
Pots of Hope, Susie
My ceramics carry mantra to support wellbeing; each piece is a meditation, cherishingly prepared, centred and shaped as a metaphor of ‘hope’. Inspired by sharing the mindful, humbling process of aligning clay, I am immersed in combining the transformation of the four essential elements into objects of function and beauty.
Leah Blake
My work is based on animals and nature.
I make animal sculptures using stoneware clay with a combination of hand building and throwing techniques.
I incorporate impressions of fossils and textures gathered and inspired by nature.
