The British Ceramics Biennial is a six week celebration of ceramics taking place across four venues in Stoke-on-Trent
Free exhibitions, installations and events will be taking place across four venues in Stoke-on-Trent spotlighting some of the leading ceramic artists working today and introduce work by fresh new talent.
All shown against the backdrop of Stoke-on-Trent’s distinctive industrial heritage. All Saints Church in Hanley, an Arts & Craft church built ‘by the potters, for the potters’ is at the centre of this year’s Biennial, with major solo exhibitions at the nearby Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, AirSpace Gallery and The Brampton Museum in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Biennial highlights include: Award: new work by ten UK-based artists competing for a £10,000 prize. These artists work in thought-provoking ways and with exceptional levels of skill and technique, using clay to explore everything from Stoke-on-Trent’s rave culture to the impact of sonar pollution on deep-diving whale species. Embodiments of Memory by multidisciplinary artist and writer Osman Yousefzada at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, which considers life after death and the process of grief, offering a healing space for contemplation, memorial and ritual Obsolescence and Renewal by Neil Brownsword at The Brampton Museum, Newcastle-under-Lyme, which looks at the marginalised histories associated with the origins of British ceramic manufacture Social Substance by William Cobbing’s at AirSpace Gallery, features a series of new video, sculpture, and performance pieces, explores a playful and ambiguous interaction between people immersed in mounds of formless clay.