Exhibition dates: 17 to 25 September 2022
Friday 16 September 2022 – 6:30pm to 8pm (by invitation)
Saturday 17 to Sunday 25 September 10:30 to 4:30 pm – [Closed on Monday 19 September]

We are delighted to host September Ceramics 2022 at City Arts Newbury!
Organised by Katherine Kingdon and Helen Long, the show is a themed exhibition housed in our newly refurbished building with a great sense of light and space.
There will be a variety of ceramic and pottery Stallholders by invitation as well as an Up and Coming Ceramicist table with 20 pieces selected by the judges and competition with prizes on three categories : under 14 years old, 14 – 18 years and 18+.
The judges for the table selection will be Cait Gould and Grant Pratt.

Entries for the Up and Coming competition are now closed.

During the first weekend you can book a 30 min throwing session with Diana Pattenden -for all ages – £20 per session

Exhibitors :

Katherine Kingdon, Helen Long, Diana Pattenden, Lone Hudson, Ursula Waechter, John Brazendale , Rebecca Maynard and Sophie Waite will be exhibiting their work during September Ceramics 2022

Exhibitors Details:

Katherine Kingdon

Katherine’s ceramics stem from a lifetime of teaching, making and mending, poking about in museums, mothering and general pottering. These crash together in her sketchbooks to inform her strangely Medieval work. It’s worth spending time with. The more you look, the more you question, and that’s where the fun begins.

Diana Pattenden

Sculptor, Diana Pattenden, teaches beginners pottery and will be letting you have a go on her portable potters’ wheel. For a fee of £20 you will get fun filled tuition. The pot you create will be taken away to be fired and glazed and collection arranged for a later date.

John Brazendale

John works in The Cloud Studio, Newbury. He started his ceramics journey as a ‘thrower’. Following a degree in Fine Art Ceramics, he makes ceramic sculpture and more functional pieces. The influence of art history, a product of his teaching, can be seen in a range of work and most recently in his new hand-built ceramic walls which were inspired by Ben Nicholson & Wassily Kandinsky.

Sophie Waite

Sophie creates both framed and 3d pieces including planters and decorations. She is influenced by the malleability of clay and traditional functional forms and enjoy playing with and contrasting the two. She particularly loves the smoke firing process and the natural, unpredictable finishes it can achieve.

Helen Long

Helen’s work in porcelain explores the soft movement in the clay, referencing nature. She aims to work as sustainably as possible whilst producing objects of beauty. This series is a response to the storms in January during which an estimated 8 million trees were lost.

Lone Hudson

Lone makes contemporary stoneware ceramics, predominantly coiled or slab constructed vessels, dishes, bowls and sculptures. Her approach to making is inspired by abstract organic and natural forms, as well as light and shadows cast by and relating to my pieces.

Ursula Waechter

Ursula makes a range of functional and decorative tin-glazed earthenware pottery.

Rebecca Maynard

Rebecca’s work are bold,sculptural, hand built, ceramic forms inspired by landscape and nature; from small tactile birds in blues to large heads in volcanic black stoneware clays.