Valéria Nascimento was born in Goiânia, Brazil, and grew up surrounded by exuberant Brazilian landscapes that inspired her from an early age. She initially studied architecture, during which time she became greatly inspired by the works of architects Roberto Burle Marx and Oscar Niemeyer. After graduating, she moved to Rio to pursue her architectural career, it was here she was introduced to clay and became fascinated by its multiple possibilities for expression and development of ideas.

At once organic and ornate, spontaneous and stylised, Vanessa Hogge brings a unique textural and visual dimension to her decorative wallflowers and vessels. Working predominantly in porcelain, she crafts her one-off flowerheads and sculptural forms in her studio in East London. Grounded by years of expertise as a ceramicist, she painstakingly sculpts each petal by hand so no two flowers are identical. Flowers such as dahlias, chrysanthemums, daisies and hydrangeas are created in porcelain and black clay, and are fired to high temperatures to create brittle, ossified shades of white and lava-like black.

Vicky Lindo and her partner, Bill Brookes, work collaboratively, making slip-cast earthenware with lively sgraffito decoration through vibrant underglaze colours. Lindo creates the graphic surfaces with their strongly illustrative qualities, fluently and deeply carved to give a relief effect. Brookes makes the plaster moulds and casts the wares, which they together design. Winners of the 2019 British Ceramics Biennial Award, they have work in the permanent collections of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Having been introduced to clay while studying art and design at foundation level in Cheltenham, Victoria Meadows went on to graduate with a degree in ceramics from the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, in 1996. She has a lifelong fascination of ancient, often primitive ceramic techniques and forms, and a passion for the natural world. Her work is a collaboration of nature and craft and she has stripped back processes and materials, using only clay and plant life to create her natural finishes. She has exhibited with a select group of galleries including Maud and Mabel, Thrown Contemporary and Zuleika Gallery.

Yuta Segawa is a Japanese ceramic artist specialising in producing miniature pottery. He learned advanced ceramic skills in Japan and China, and developed his techniques of making miniature pots in London. All miniature pots are thrown individually by hand and he uses more than a thousand original glazes he has made. Miniature pottery relates to the issue of the relationship between the artist’s body and their work. It is a challenge to test the limits of what a human body can make on such a small scale.

Dame Zandra Rhodes has been a notorious figurehead of the UK fashion industry for five decades, and she was celebrated in September 2019 with a retrospective, Zandra Rhodes: 50 Years of Fabulous, at the Fashion and Textile Museum, London. Her notoriety as a print designer combined with an affinity for fine fabrics and colour has resulted in a signature aesthetic that is undeniably unique and continues to stand the test of time. Her career has seen her collaborate with brands such as Valentino, Topshop and MAC Cosmetics, and she continues to collaborate with brands that inspire her.