Posted @withregram • @ceramicsnow We are delighted to announce the release of Ceramics Now Magazine Issue 8 (March 2025), featuring the introspective work of Sam Lucas on the cover, shaped by a personal process of meaning-making that embraces material transformation. This issue includes insightful essays, artist profiles, and a selection of ceramic exhibitions from around the world. Amazing photograph @sylvaindeleuphotographer
📙 Don't miss this issue. Read more, subscribe, or get your copy today: /magazine (link in bio)
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Posted @withregram • @theweightofbeing Thank you @juliaellenlancaster_ceramics for the invitation to talk about my practice in conversation with @joh.la.konigRegister for the next:
Clay in Conversation 5: Difference
Date: Friday, 22 September, 2023
Time: 5 - 7pm
Venue: Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, Regent Street, London, W1B 2HW
Tickets remain only £3 to ensure access to all.
Clay in Conversation 5: Difference is the fifth in a series of curated conversations, presenting artists working with clay and ceramics.
Coinciding with the start of @british_ceramics_biennial join us for the next Clay in Conversation.
We are so happy to present artists Sam Lucas @sam___lucas and Laura Johanna König @joh.la.konig with Tessa Peters @tessapeters2 as chair. This is an 'in real life' event at University of Westminster, Regent Street campus, W1B 2HW. For more info and to book a place go to Eventbrite link in bio/linktree.
Curated by artist @juliaellenlancaster_ceramics in partnership with the Ceramics Research Centre-UK (CREAM), University of Westminster @uow_cream This episode is generously supported by @scarvapotterysupplies
The curated conversations provide a platform for presentation, dialogue and discovery, bringing together a diverse range of artists with a practice using clay and ceramics.
Each conversation centres on a specific theme - acting as a lens through which the artists will present a piece of work or project. The conversations offer the opportunity to dig deeper into the work, exploring it formally, materially and conceptually, from the perspective of the artists themselves.
The presentations are followed by a Q&A session with the audience.
All welcome. Please are limited so book your tickets now.
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Material Memory 10 years exhibition. @cluster__crafts@rocalondongallery 21st May to 17th June. It is an amazing gallery space designed by @zahahadidarchitects
My research is a part time practice based PhD in clay and ceramics @sunderlanduni funded by @ahrcpress@northernbrigeconsortium . Supervised by @clay_doc and @professor_yitka
My interest in this area has come from a life long awareness of something different, a rocky start in education and carrying the #weightoftheworld my focus in academic research began on MA ceramics @csad_ceramics supported by @natashamayoceramics@clairecurneen
Thank you at artist blacksmith Matt west @m.r.westprojects who helped me with the steel work for my @british_ceramics_biennial Award 2019 installation
@pjwe111 for amazing writing
I have been exploring my own and others experience through practice in clay and utilizing Instagram as a research method
@theweightofbeing and thank you to all of those amazing women, @sharongriffinart@aphraoconnor@claredayceramics@marsh_farm_pottery who believe in the ND cause and all of the anonymous ones and @jon_williams_potter and @cyborg_artist who participated in the semi structured interviews, such rich experiences
And encouraged and collaboration with @nick_grellier #mybodyinmyhands from call out, cocreated online gallery, physical exhibition @sva__ and artist book #mybodyinmyhandsbook drop in workshops across the UK and conference talks and exhibitions @juliaellenlancaster_ceramics@sarahpurvey@voices.gloucester@gnac_neuroartscollective@amy_freeman_art_stuff My studio is @victoriaworksstudios in chalford Stroud, a beautiful part of the world, which the PhD funding has made possible, if only I could afford to live there 😊
I am lucky to work part time in a specialist college for 27 years which still has a belief in the importance of soft clay in the hands of young neurodivergent people
I'm still trying to make sense of and write up my PhD but am in messy middle, if you have undertaken a PhD and you are neurodivergent you will understand this
And my clay club ...staff rec ceramics who are the most supportive and accept my facilitative approach to teaching
Get @reshare_app • @british_ceramics_biennial We are midway through Mental Health Awareness Week, and we thought we would share artworks from some of our past Award artists dealing with different themes around mental health and wellbeing.
1. 'Same Same But Different' by @sam____lucas is based on feelings of awkwardness within your own body and how that can especially affect those who are neurodivergent.
2. 'This whole situation has made me realise I am going to die alone.' by @connor.coulston uses self-deprecating humour as a tool to bring focus to personal issues such as depression, queer identity and his Grandmothers love for right-wing politicians.
3. 'There are devils in my house' by @jaz.simpson.art explores how the lockdowns brought into sharp focus our relationship with our homes. For many people, homes represent safety and security. For others, they can be a place of solitude and isolation.
4. 'It Was Lost in the Move' by @leah.jensen embodied the anxieties and worries that come with housing insecurity, and the bigger impact that housing shortages have on society.
📷 Jenny Harper
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We’re excited to announce Sam Lucas (@sam____lucas ) as part of Cluster Crafts: 10 Years at the @rocalondongallery .
A longtime member of the Cluster family, Sam creates powerful figurative ceramic works that challenge, question, and open important conversations through clay.
Her practice has been recognised by the British Ceramics Biennial, Crafts Council Hothouse, and Jerwood Makers, making her one of the most compelling voices in contemporary ceramics today.
📍 Roca London Gallery
📅 21 May – 17 June
🎟 RSVP via link in bio.
I can't put into words how strongly I feel about this. I did really badly at school because of my haphazard way of being.
Having clay put into my young hands was a turning point and ceramics became my sanctuary and gave me a future.
I have worked at a specialist college for 27 years and have encouraged the use of clay, in my own way. In a supportive/facilitative role rather than leading
Clay is so underrated and this is an amazing project by @kate_malone_ceramics@firedup4clay@sothebys@londoncraftweek
I feel so proud to have been invited to add my work to the exhibition and auction to raise money to give disadvantaged young people the opportunity of experiencing clay in the many projects the firedup4clay charity are undertaking
please come and see the amazing work and bid if you are able.
Apologies if I sound like Amanda in careers week #amandaland 🤣 I can't help myself.
#secretceramics #firedup4clay #firedup #londoncraftweek
Please pass on www.firedup4
Up early to take some work to two different parts of London very excited and privileged to have been invited to give work to such a good cause, fingers crossed someone would like to buy my work from the Secret Ceramics Auction on May 14th and add it to their collection and help put clay into young people's hands @firedup4clay@sothebys@londoncraftweek
Thankyou to my son @lovettsong for taking time out of his busy life to drive and be my packhorse for the day
Perfectly/imperfect self acceptance, multifaceted, authenticity, warts and all. Not hiding, wearing it on the outside. Constructing and reconstructing the self in clay through naive interpretation and representation somewhere between 2024 and 2025 in naked clay
Private view this evening
Get @reshare_app • @ice_greenwich DYSPLA - A Neurodivergent Aesthetic
Exhibition dates: 10 April - 2 May 2026
Venue: Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Stockwell Street, University of Greenwich
Opening times: 11:00-17:00 Tuesday - Friday/ 11:00-16:00 Saturday
Admission: Free
With the exhibition Neurodivergent Aesthetics, DYSPLA aims to showcase the intersectionality of contemporary art and disability aesthetics.
DYSPLA CIC is a London based award-winning neurodivergent-led arts organisation and the winner of the Saatchi Gallery Digital Artist of the Future Prize 2025, is known for their pioneering digital art narratives, and for expanding the conversation around disability aesthetics through their explorations of what might constitute a ‘Neurodivergent Aesthetic.’
