✨ Save the Date ✨
The International Ceramics Festival will be returning to @aberystwytharts on 25–27 June 2027.
Join us for three days of clay, fire, ideas and conversation — celebrating creativity, making, and the ceramics community from Wales and beyond.
We can’t wait to welcome you back.
More details to follow...
#ICF #internationalceramicsfestival #ceramics #pottery #arts
We’re looking for a Treasurer to join the Board of the International Ceramics Festival 🎨
This voluntary role is a great opportunity to gain Board-level experience, support the financial direction of a globally recognised arts festival, and connect with an incredible network of ceramic artists and creatives.
⏱ Approx. 5 hours per month
Find out more and view the full role description on our website.
📩 To apply, send your CV and covering letter to [email protected]
How exciting is this?! 🏺✨
@potterythrow
The Great Pottery Throw Down is back on our screens this week — and we’re extra proud because two of the potters in this year’s line-up volunteered with us at ICF last year 🙌
From helping behind the scenes to now throwing under studio lights… it’s genuinely brilliant to see their journeys continuing and their talent getting the spotlight it deserves. Proof that the ceramics community is a small (and very supportive) one 💛
We’ll be cheering @billrollsceramics and @kazwoodspotter on every step of the way — tune in and watch along!
#potterythrowdown #ceramicsfamily #ICF #volunteer
This is Euan Craig @euan.craig who came to Aberystwyth @icfaberystwyth from Japan where he lives and works. Euan built and fired a small version of the kiln he has in Japan and also demonstrated on the main stage, throwing using a very primitive borrowed kick wheel whilst sitting on a pallet supported on breeze blocks. You have to love the ingenuity of creative people
Doug Fitch and Hannah McAndrew @fitchandmcandrew demonstrating at @icfaberystwyth there is something really special about Doug and Hannah, they both make great pots, they are both lovely people and they have the most wonderful chemistry. Their two main stage demonstrations bookended the festival in a great way.
ICF 2025.
We were given unfortunate beautiful bowls, cups, mugs by Euan Craig from Japan. They were all fixed at the workshop. Happy bowls, cups and mugs.
Workshop in Oxford
20th September
Event at Pophams Home, London
13th September
Booking , check websites.
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Bonnie Grace @bonnie.grace.art demonstrating at @icfaberystwyth last week. Bonnie creates jug shaped surfaces which she decorates in a style reminiscent of Sunderland or Staffordshire flatware.
I let my arms tell the story!! Does anyone else do this? My brain is activated by moving my arms, they help me reach thoughts that otherwise hide away!!
I had an almost constant stream of such wonderful feedback on my lecture @icfaberystwyth 'The Figure and Folk: Constructing Ideas at the ICS Residency' it seems that it was perhaps a far better experience to watch me dramatize the content of my videos than if they actually worked (just a MAC issue I think) as I had to describe them instead – so off my arms went conjuring the memory from the rest of my body to tell the story!!
I found my experience @icshungary utterly transformative, a testament to the value of time and space an artist needs for reflection and regeneration.
As I told everyone i spoke to, if you have the chance to go to this culturally rich, enchanting and beautifully resourced residency GO!! Thank you International Ceramics Studio, Kecskemét, Hungary for the photos x
This is Adil Writer @adilwriterartpage demonstrating at @icfaberystwyth Adil is an architect who also works in ceramics making sculptures and large panels.
Over the next week or two I will be posting some pictures from @icfaberystwyth
It’s a great event and I feel privileged to be a part of it. This first picture is just before the opening ceremony. Ingrid Murphy and Jim Robison getting ready to present the whole thing
Demonstrating at the Aberystwyth International Ceramic Festival in Wales @icfaberystwyth The figurines in make, and the textures I clad them in were both most requested at the demos next door. Thank you. Everyone involved with the festival. It was extremely professionally managed with impeccable hospitality and grace! It was lovely to meet old friends and make so many new ones. So happy to be a part of the world of ceramics!!! And happy to have shared this stage for the demonstration with @garethnashceramics Gareth, my #figurine atop your #horse made quite a few #waves !!!;) #ContemporaryCeramics #ContemporaryIndianCeramics #ContemporarySculpture #Ireland #Wales #aberystwyth #UK #UnitedKingdom #ClayIsTheway #AurovilleCeramics #Figurative #FigurativeClay #FigurativeSculptures #Textures #texturesinclay #contemporaryindiansculpture @aberystwythschoolofart@aberystwyth.university And thank you @benboswell for these photos!
Some detail captured from backstage at #ICF2025
With @nicholas.lees
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Don’t forget to watch back all the demonstrations on our YouTube channel in the ‘Live’ tab.
Link in bio.
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