Sara Dodd is an award-winning ceramic artist and a graduate of Cardiff Metropolitan University (2013). In 2021, Dodd received an honourable mention at the International KOGEI Crafts Awards, Japan, and she joined the Craft Potters Association (CPA) and Contemporary Applied Arts (CAA). In 2022, she received the Rosalind Stracey Ceramics Award from Cockpit Arts and moved her studio to Deptford, South East London. The same year she joined Homo Faber, a collection of the best artisans and makers from across Europe. Her work is exhibited regularly across the UK and worldwide.

Sara Moorhouse is a ceramicist who experiments with the way colour can alter spatial perception, a phenomenon she first noticed when growing up in the agricultural landscapes of north Nottinghamshire. She gained an MA in ceramics in Cardiff, Wales, and in 2010, she completed a PhD which examined the spatial effects of colour on the three-dimensional conical form. Moorhouse won the Creative Wales award in 2014 and used it to experiment with the bands of colour on differently shaped bowls. Her work is held in several public collections including the Westerwald Ceramic Museum, Germany, the Devonshire Collection at Chatsworth House, and York Art Gallery.

Sara Radstone has taught and lectured widely in the UK and overseas, and for 25 years she has taught on the renowned City Lit Ceramics Diploma Course in London. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, and in 2017/18, was the subject of a major retrospective at York Art Gallery. Radstone’s work has received many awards, including the inaugural Arts Foundation Fellowship, and can be found in public and private collections around the world.

Simon Carroll (1964 – 2009) was one of the most talented potters of his generation. He studied at UWE Bristol, where he was taught by Mo Jupp and Walter Keeler. Intrigued by the notion of touch, he became artist-in-residence at the Royal National College for the Blind in the early 1990s. The exuberance and eruptive force of Carroll’s forms is always tempered by a thoughtful and affectionate reverence for the tradition of pottery. He drew inspiration from an eclectic range of sources including Elizabethan ruffles, sombreros, Cornish wind-farms, Henri Matisse and his own experience of working on the land. He exhibited, lectured and demonstrated his craft, from Hong Kong to the United States, gaining international recognition.

Simon Olley is fascinated by the relationship between man and dog, and his work combines illustration and sgraffito to depict and celebrate the life of his Labrador Retriever. He undertakes commissions worldwide, often based on an owner's dog. His pottery is found as far afield as USA, Japan, Korea and Australia. The piece he has made for the auction is intended to express the joy of running freely across open hillsides. As a child he created pots under the guidance of Tessa Oates at Chipstead Craft Studios and later discovered clay while at Sevenoaks School, experiences that helped him to find creative directions in adult life.

Sophie MacCarthy has been a studio potter for over 35 years with a reputation for distinctive imagery and a bold approach to colour. Her work is thrown, slip-painted earthenware and she applies slips directly onto the dry clay, which allows for spontaneity and greater tonal depth. She uses stencils, cut-outs and wax resists and much of her imagery is a response to what she sees around her – the colours and textures of the natural world and the urban environment. She also likes to express a sense of scatter and flow, rhythm and movement in her works through colour and drawing.

Stephen Dixon is Professor Emeritus in Contemporary Crafts at Manchester School of Art. His ceramic work focusses on contemporary social and political issues and is represented in major museums and collections in the UK and the USA. In 2009, he was awarded the first ceramic residency at the V&A, resulting in the Restoration Series, three composite ceramic portraits based on Nobel Peace Prize winners and prisoners of conscience. His installation The Ship of Dreams and Nightmares took the form of a Mediterranean refugee boat and won the prestigious British Ceramics Biennial Award in 2021.

On leaving college, Stephen Murfitt combined teaching art and design with making pots. After several years spent at Marlborough College in Wiltshire as the ceramics and sculpture tutor, he returned to his native Fens and established his studio in a converted Methodist Chapel. He has exhibited his work widely across the UK and written books and articles. He is a selected member of the Anglian Potters and the Craft Potters Association.

Sue Hanna trained as a sculptor at St Martin’s College of Arts in London, originally working with wood and metal. She is interested in the visceral connection between nature, tribal art and fire. The masks and figures of different cultures have informed and broadened her interest in and understanding of both beauty and craftsmanship, of contrast and opposites, darkness and light. She mainly hand-builds her pieces, and recent work is concerned with exploring the figure in the abstract and objects decorated with geometric symbols and rhythmic patterns present in African textiles. Description goes here

Takeshi Yasuda trained at Daisei-Gama Pottery in Mashiko, 1963-66. In 1973, he took up residence in the UK and began making pottery in South Molton, Devon. He was appointed Research Professor to Ulster University and lectured for many years at the Royal College of Art, London. He has taught at many universities worldwide and his work is represented in numerous museum collections including the V&A, London. In 2005, he set up the famous Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China. He now travels between his studio in Jingdezhen (established with his wife, fellow caramicist Felicity Aylieff) and their home in Wiltshire, UK.

Tanya Gomez is renowned for her porcelain vessels in her signature lustrous colours. With an MA in Ceramics from the Royal College of Art, she has honed her skills over the last 15 years and uses dynamic throwing, cutting and assembling techniques to create large cylindrical shapes. Impactful both individually and as a group, her vessels create expressive, vivid landscapes and fluid, architectural forms. Her work has gained much acclaim and she exhibits internationally and continues to evolve her style, experimenting and pushing her practice and the boundaries of her craft.

After graduating from the University of Westminster in 2006, Tessa Eastman gained a MA in Ceramics and Glass from the Royal College of Art. Building pieces by hand, she draws inspiration from organic forms as seen through a microscope or in the skies. She has been exhibiting in the UK and abroad since 2005 and her sculptures have been selected for biennials including the British Ceramics Biennial in Stoke-on-Trent in 2015. Eastman received an honourable mention at the Korean International Ceramic Biennale in 2017, and that same year she was shortlisted for the Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Prize.

Tommaso Corvi-Mora has run contemporary art galleries in London since 1995. In 2000, he set up Corvi-Mora in order to show contemporary art and ceramics together, creating unexpected formal and conceptual links between seemingly disparate works. His interest in ceramics inspired him to study ceramics at evening classes, and since 2012 his work has been exhibited regularly, both in the UK and abroad. For 2023 he is working towards an exhibition in Albissola, one of the main ceramic towns in Italy, and in London later in the year.

Tony Laverick established his own studio in 1988. He had previously worked in the ceramic industry in Stoke-on-Trent (including as a designer for Coalport China, part of the Wedgwood group). His background in the industry has given him a broad appreciation of the craft, and he has developed his own glazes and techniques over many years of experimentation. In 2014, he was made a Fellow Member of the Craft Potter’s Association, and he was selected to be a member of Contemporary Applied Arts in 2015.