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Steven Edwards: Selected works, 2025-2026

Steven Edwards: Selected works, 2025-2026 My practice is rooted in a process-led approach, where each work evolves through intuitive actions, experimentation, and a continual dialogue with materials. Cutting, rearranging, layering, and reworking are central to the making process, allowing each piece to develop organically rather than towards a predetermined outcome. The finished forms become records […]

Steven Edwards

Steven Edwards Steven Edwards (b. 1976, UK) is a ceramic artist based in the UK whose practice centres on material investigation, sculptural form, and the expressive potential of clay. Working from his studio in London, he explores the physicality of the medium through processes that examine the interplay of form, surface, and the act of […]

Suspending the ephemeral at Galerie Terra Viva, Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie

Suspending the ephemeral is on view at Galerie Terra Viva, Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie August 30 – November 15, 2026 Sumptuous glazes clinging to the walls of vessels, forms that come from afar – across space and time – floral motifs in bloom, colours delicately echoing one another: drawing on artistic references and the richness of their glazes, […]

The call is coming from… beneath our feet: Review of E. Saffronia Downing’s Call for Clay

2025 As velvety darkness began to wrap around me, I started my habitual observance of the day’s end: lounging in bed, letting the blue light from my phone pierce the darkness and flood my mind with a temporary digital dopamine rush. I listlessly moved from the biting comments on Reddit posts […]

Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte at the Jewish Museum, New York City

Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte at the Jewish Museum, New York City Now on view through November 15, 2026, at the Jewish Museum, NYC, Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte sheds new light on the role that Jewish women played as artists, designers, patrons, and tastemakers shaping modernist aesthetics in […]

Hermann Grüneberg: The Ballad of the Fallen at Galerie Herold, Hamburg

Hermann Grüneberg: The Ballad of the Fallen is on view at Galerie Herold, Hamburg September 3 – October 9, 2026 In the autumn of 2021, Hermann Grüneberg (b. 1983) arrived at Galerie Herold in Hamburg’s Colonnaden carrying nothing but a suitcase filled with ceramic plates. One by one, he unpacked them across the parquet floor—and […]

Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers at Ballroom Marfa, Marfa

Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers is on view at Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX May 1 – October 11, 2026 Ballroom Marfa is proud to present Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers, the first major traveling exhibition for the artist, featuring new and recent works made over the last five years. For this iteration, Ballroom […]

Kiyomizu Rokubei: 250 Years of Ceramic Expression from Kyoto at Dai Ichi Arts, New York

Kiyomizu Rokubei: 250 Years of Ceramic Expression from Kyoto at Dai Ichi Arts, New York September 10-24, 2026 Dai Ichi Arts is pleased to present Kiyomizu Rokubei: 250 Years of Ceramic Expression from Kyoto, an exhibition celebrating one of Japan’s most distinguished ceramic dynasties. On the occasion of Asia Week New York, September 2026, the […]

tierra at Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles

tierra, the fourth edition of Craft Contemporary’s Clay Biennial, is on view at Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles May 31 – October 25, 2026 Craft Contemporary is pleased to present tierra, the fourth installment of its Clay Biennial. On view May 31 – October 25, 2026, tierra reconsiders the biennial’s scope by expanding its focus beyond […]

Beneath the Skin: Aneta Regel at Sarah Myerscough Gallery

was born in Silesia (largely located in southwestern Poland) in 1976, but moved with her family as an infant to Gdynia in northern Poland. The family lived in a modernist concrete tower block on the edge of the city, close to the sea and the forest. Poland was a communist […]

Kirsten Spuijbroek: Selected works, 2022-2025

Kirsten Spuijbroek: Selected works, 2022-2025 After the fire and Passage, 2025 Gates stand as guardians of emotional wellbeing, marking the boundary between comfort and growth. They hold the tension of choice, the moment when one must decide whether to remain in the familiar or step into the unknown. To pass through is to face fear, […]

Kirsten Spuijbroek

Kirsten Spuijbroek Kirsten Spuijbroek (b. 1981) is an artist based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She studied Product Design at ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, graduating with a BA in 2009. Spuijbroek’s centers on difficult and often unspoken aspects of human experience, with a particular focus on grief, loss, inner emptiness, vulnerability, and emotions that are […]

Assistant Professor in Ceramics at Iowa State University

Assistant Professor in Ceramics at Iowa State University, Ames, IA Posted on August 5, 2026 The Department of Art and Visual Culture in the College of Design at Iowa State University is offering a full-time tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Ceramics starting August 16, 2027. Qualified candidates for this studio-based position […]

Ceramics Studio Manager at Minot State University

Ceramics Studio Manager at Minot State University, Minot, ND Posted on August 15, 2026 The Department of Art at Minot State University invites applications for a ceramics studio manager. The successful candidate must have current and significant experience with studio processes, materials, and technology and a commitment to maintaining an open, accessible and safe learning […]

Kirsten Spuijbroek: Selected works, 2022-2025

Kirsten Spuijbroek: Selected works, 2022-2025 After the fire and Passage, 2025 Gates stand as guardians of emotional wellbeing, marking the boundary between comfort and growth. They hold the tension of choice, the moment when one must decide whether to remain in the familiar or step into the unknown. To pass through is to face fear, […]

Kirsten Spuijbroek

Kirsten Spuijbroek Kirsten Spuijbroek (b. 1981) is an artist based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She studied Product Design at ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, graduating with a BA in 2009, and previously attended the Hout- en Meubileringscollege in Amsterdam. Spuijbroek’s work explores difficult and often unspoken aspects of human experience, with a particular focus on […]

Kneaded. Shaped. Fired. 47th Tendencies Exhibition

2026 Tendencies exhibition is the 47th edition of a series of annual presentations that began in 1970, when Norwegian artist Erik Pløen proposed a yearly craft exhibition to Galleri F 15’s then-director, Lars Brandstrup. The exhibition is on view June 20th through October 11th at Galleri F 15 in Moss, a […]

Heide Nonnenmacher: Selected works, 2020-2025

Heide Nonnenmacher: Selected works, 2020-2025 My work grows out of a fascination with the natural structures that surround me and with the ancient geological history of Nattheim, where I live and work. Around 150 million years ago, this region was part of the Swabian Jurassic Sea. Its corals, sponges, radiolarians, and other marine organisms, preserved […]

Heide Nonnenmacher

Heide Nonnenmacher Heide Nonnenmacher (b. 1951, Stuttgart) is a ceramic artist based in Nattheim, Germany. She studied art at the University of Education in Schwäbisch Gmünd from 1971 to 1974 and established her own studio in 1982. Throughout her career, she has participated in multiple international residencies and exchanges, including artist residencies in Shigaraki, Japan […]

Astrid Sleire: Selected works, 2025-2026

Astrid Sleire: Selected works, 2025-2026 Folded Constructions, 2026 Astrid Sleire’s works highlight the constructed and assembled – architectural qualities. In the exhibition Folded Constructions, Astrid Sleire explores the movements of the material and how the shape can create a space for new possibilities. She aims to strike a balance between construction and expression, between the […]

Astrid Sleire

Astrid Sleire Astrid Sleire (b. 1961) is a Norwegian ceramic artist who graduated from The National College of Art and Design in Bergen in 1988. Her practice explores abstract sculptural forms that balance construction and fragility, often referencing architecture and landscape in transformation. Working in her studio in Bergen, she pursues an explorative and material-conscious […]

We’re hiring: Freelance Editorial Assistant at Ceramics Now

We’re hiring: Freelance Editorial Assistant at Ceramics Now Posted on August 12, 2026 Ceramics Now is looking for a Freelance Editorial Assistant to help us publish artist profiles and introduce the work of more ceramic artists to our international readership. Artist profiles are an important part of Ceramics Now, but preparing them for publication requires […]

The week’s news in the ceramic art world – August 12, 2026

The week’s news in the ceramic art world – August 12, 2026 👌 We’re hiring! Ceramics Now is looking for a Freelance Editorial Assistant to help us publish artist profiles and introduce the work of more ceramic artists to our international readership. This is a remote freelance position for approximately 8 hours per week, with […]

Ross Junior Owusu: Selected Works, 2025-2026

Ross Junior Owusu: Selected Works, 2025-2026 Becoming Giants (ancestral pride), 2026 Scale and repetition give Becoming Giants its sense of presence. Small modular elements are built into larger vertical structures, turning individual gestures into forms that feel monumental and connecting them to ideas of ancestry and inheritance. The series reflects on how ancestry is carried […]

Ross Junior Owusu

Ross Junior Owusu Ross Junior Owusu is a Ghanaian mixed-media artist working between the United States and Ghana, whose practice spans ceramics, performance, and assemblage. Rooted in contemporary craft, his work examines identity, migration, and cultural memory, focusing on how identities are carried, reshaped, reconstructed across shifting geographies and asking what is picked up, and […]

Anton Alvarez: The Colour of Gravity at Helsinki Contemporary, Helsinki

Anton Alvarez: The Colour of Gravity is on view at Helsinki Contemporary, Helsinki August 7-30, 2026 Helsinki Contemporary is pleased to present Swedish Chilean artist Anton Alvarez’s first solo exhibition in Finland. The Colour of Gravity presents striking ceramic sculptures that play with the human scale and challenge our perceptions of craftsmanship and the use […]

Delft’s Ceramic Conversations: Common Ground, Market Days, Urban Blue

By Julia Ellen Lancaster Having travelled to Rotterdam Centraal on the Eurostar, it’s an easy ten-minute hop on the Intercity Sprinter to my destination of Delft. This picturesque Dutch city in South Holland, set between Rotterdam and The Hague, is known as the birthplace of Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer and the iconic Delft […]

Ceramics NowAug 6, 2026

Paolo Porelli and Mattia Vernocchi: Contemporary Ceramics from Italy at Stadtmuseum Siegburg, Siegburg

Paolo Porelli and Mattia Vernocchi: Contemporary Ceramics from Italy is on view at Stadtmuseum Siegburg, Siegburg July 11 – August 30, 2026 Divenire: tra materia, storia e naturaBecoming: between matter, history and nature In this exhibition, the Italian ceramic artists Paolo Porelli and Mattia Vernocchi present two forms of expression with distinct artistic connotations that […]

Ceramics NowAug 5, 2026

The City That Makes: Jingdezhen

Notes from the 52nd IAC Congress, satellite exhibitions and the 2026 Jingdezhen International Ceramic Art Biennale By Olivia Fero There is a street in Jingdezhen for glaze and a street for bisque, a street for tiles, a street for tools, a street for decals. Whole districts specialise the way organs specialise: underglaze painting here, porcelain […]

Ceramics NowAug 5, 2026

Art of the “Formless”: The Ceramics of Charles Bound

By Stephen F. Eisenman Belated discovery of a mature artist I first came across Charles Bound’s work in September 2024, at Contemporary Ceramics on Great Russell Street in London, opposite the British Museum. I’d visited the gallery from time to time over the years, but after I moved to England in Spring 2024, my attendance […]

Ceramics NowJul 30, 2026