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Ceramics - HOT right now!

April 22, 2025

Contributors: Vivien Phelan & Gillian Brett

Maybe it started with the popularity of Grayson Perry becoming a household name, a British treasure, and his extraordinary ceramics becoming highly valued art pieces.

Or perhaps ‘The Great Pottery Throwdown’ on television encouraged everyone to ‘have a go’ - with many now appreciating how tricky but beguiling making ceramics can be.

But one thing’s for certain: ceramics are becoming a key part of the art world and HOT right now!

Collectors are investing many thousands in ceramic pieces. Exhibitions like ‘Strange Clay’ at the Hayward Gallery, Theater Gates’ ‘Clay Sermon’ and Yoko Ono’s ‘Mend Piece’ at the Whitechapel Gallery have celebrated extraordinary ceramic works. The annual Crafts Council ‘Collect’ exhibition at Somerset House has also helped bring ceramics work to feature front and centre of the art market now.

London Craft Week 12-18 May continues this trend by highlighting and celebrating ceramic work. For example ‘Secret Ceramics’ at Christie’s auction house features, amongst others, examples of Picasso’s amazing ceramic work.

Ceramics of all types are also valued, treasured and searched for in such programmes as ‘Antiques Road Show’, ‘Flog it!’ and the ‘Repair Shop’.

Many universities were closing their ceramic departments in the 1960's and now are re-opening, which is great news for this very visual, tactile art form.

Here at Skylark Galleries - currently exhibiting in Gabriels Wharf - we have 6 ceramicists, each creating their own distinctive work. Below you can find some examples of the work we are featuring this month.