Ceramics exhibitions, UK

Here you’ll find ceramics and pottery exhibitions all round the UK. Got a thing with ceramics? You’re in the right place.

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    Kent Potters Open Exhibition

    20 June - 15 July

    KPA Open Exhibition at Hall Place Stables Gallery, Bexley DA5 1PQ. Over 30 ceramic artists.

  • 2  ceramic jugs

    Paul Jackson & Richard Phethean, Contemporary Ceramics, London

    26 June - 19 July

    Both artists are long-established professional potters who make thrown, altered and uniquely decorated works. At Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell Street, London

  • After Ash, County Hall Pottery, London

    8 July - 3 August

    County Hall Pottery is pleased to present After Ash, an exhibition exploring the transformative potential of wood firing, ash glazes, and alternative firing techniques in contemporary ceramics. Bringing together the work of nine artists, the exhibition engages with elemental processes in which fire, ash, and time converge to leave their often unpredictable, mark on clay.

  • Southern Ceramics Group Exhibition & Sale, Chichester

    Southern Ceramics Group Exhibition & Sale, Chichester

    26 July - 10 August

    SCG 2025 Ceramics Exhibition and sale at The Great Kitchen, Bishop’s Palace, Chichester PO19 1PY. Free entry, over 700 exhibits from 65 local ceramicists.

  • Clay, Fire & Ash: Painting with Flames, Clay College, Stoke

    28 June - 10 August

    This exhibition highlights the beauty of wood-firing, reflecting on both technique and the artistic outcome. 

    Clay College is proud to bring leading potters' work to the Potteries for exhibition.

  • Summer Craft Collection 2025, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham

    3 May - 23 August

    Discover the beauty of handcrafted art in their seasonal collection-a stunning showcase of ceramics, glass, jewellery, and textiles from leading independent makers.
    Ceramics: 2 Hungry Bakers, Alice Funge, Alison Proctor, Fan Ji, Hannah Heys, Jaeeun Kim, Lucy Burley, Jana Griffiths.

  • Ceramic vessel

    Nicholas Lees, Beaux Arts Bath

    16 June - 30 August

    New ceramic sculptures from amazing artist Nicholas Lees.

  • Poster for summer exhibition

    Summer Exhibition, Bevere Gallery, Worcester

    12 July - 30 August

    Leonie Stanton, Annette Welch, Yo Thom and Steve Brown. With work on the walls by Zoe Taylor. Always something new – a constantly changing display of studio ceramics, original prints, paintings & jewellery. The Gallery is open Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm.

  • Akiko Hirai at Bevere Gallery, Worcester

    2 August - 30 August

    Featured Maker: Akiko Hirai
    Always something new – a constantly changing display of studio ceramics, original prints, paintings & jewellery. The Gallery is open Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm.

  • The Joy of Fat, Forth Wall Folkestone

    1 - 31 August

    Acclaimed artist Mellissa Monsoon presents The Joy of Fat, a powerful exhibition at Fourth Wall Folkestone that celebrates body diversity and challenges stigma. Monsoon’s latest collection of ceramic works embraces and reclaims the word “fat” as a joyful and unapologetic expression of self-love and acceptance.

    Private view: Fri 1 August, 6-8pm

  • Black and white patterned ceramic vessel

    Björk Haraldsdóttir: Maker in Focus

    5 July - 6 September

    At the New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, see the work of Bjork Haraldsdóttir a ceramic artist with a background in architecture, originally from Iceland and now based in the UK. Her ceramic practice remains rooted in architectural thinking, exploring structure, surface, and rhythm.

  • Seedscapes at Wakehurst, West Sussex

    4 July - 14 September

    An exhibition of art, sculpture, and sound set throughout the gardens, inspired by the science of seeds, and the groundbreaking research carried out daily at the Millennium Seed Bank, now celebrating its 25th anniversary.

    Brighton-based sculpture artist Adam Ceramic’s impressive piece of over 500 hand-sculpted clay seeds will be set just outside the Seed Bank.

  • Decorated ceramic vessels

    Decorated: The Sculptural Ceramics of Ebony Russell

    22 May – 25 September

    Acclaimed ceramic artist Ebony Russell presents a solo exhibition with Brookfield Properties, in partnership with Crafts Council at 99 Bishopsgate in the City of London. Meanwhile, Adorned: Celebrating Craft and Form – on view at nearby 30 Fenchurch Street – features works by the four other finalists alongside the winner, Russell. Both exhibitions are free to attend.

  • Group of ceramic vessels

    Make Southwest Maker Member Show, Bovey Tracey

    28 June - 1 November

    In 2025 the 70th Maker Member annual show at the Jubilee Gallery is celebrating their Membership, showing selected work from Maker Members, and through 'behind the scenes' stories of their making community.  Jennifer Amon’s work pictured.

  • Decorated plates on a wall

    100 Years, 60 Designers & 1 Future, The Potteries Museum & Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent

    12 June - 7 December

    The brainchild of Emily Johnson, 1882 Ltd.’s creative director and co-founder, , this specially commissioned collection of plates has been hand decorated by 1882 Ltd.’s potters, working from a piece of artwork donated by 60 of the UK’s leading artists, architects, designers, musicians and creative polymaths.

  • Elizabeth Fritsch: Otherworldly Vessels, Hepworth Wakefield

    8 March - Spring 2026

    A survey exhibition of one of Britain’s foremost ceramicists, Elizabeth Fritsch. The exhibition will bring together over 100 works made between the 1970s and 2013 drawn largely from the artist’s own rarely-seen private collection.


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