Claudia Clare trained as a painter at Camberwell and then did an apprenticeship at Winchcombe Pottery. She has exhibited throughout the UK and Europe and has published widely on ceramics. She is a regular contributor to Ceramic Review and in 2011 released ‘The Pot Book,’ (Phaidon, UK), with Edmund de Waal. She is represented by Francis Kyle Gallery.

She says: ‘I make clay pots to tell stories. While maintaining a profound interest in the big events that shape our time, it is the impact of these events on the everyday that inspires the pots: I am more interested in the effect of a revolution on families and shop-keepers than on the fighting and flames preferred by television news.’ From a royal wedding to the global banking crisis, and from the shooting of a London gangster to rebellion in Iran, Clare has recorded a series of events with national and international consequences. Clay pots are good at sustaining the memory of marginalised social stories: ‘they are our museum pieces and archaeological evidence. They function both as memorials and as a call for action.’