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Studio Pottery London. a light-filled ceramics studio cultivating a community of potters in the heart of London. Membership, classes, workshops, studio space rent for makers of all levels and experience.
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  • The Studio
    • The Space
    • Gallery
  • Classes
  • Members
  • Shop
    • Artists shop
    • Members Shop
  • Events
    • Pop Up Pots
    • Corporate Off-site
    • Studio Hire
  • The Team
  • Contact
  • Client login
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Maker Michel Francois’s Stunning Oak Ash Chun Bowl for sale via the studio. Exquisite glaze. Perfect for statement piece or serving bowl.. £600.00 🦅 Technical notes: Cornish Clay, from St Agnes and Porcelain. Michel’s Chun Glaze (15cm high x 32cm wide) Year: 2022 Contact the studio directly
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The studio is pumped to be uploading artists sale vessels via our Artist SHOP over the next few weeks! In unison with Chelsea Flower Show & Gregory Tingay’s upcoming sale week at the studio early JUNE.. All vessels will be available via our Instagram SHOP via our website & studio! Watch this space ⚡️
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We have just released an additional Sunday Taster (29 May 10am -1pm). So for those who haven’t been able to join our popular group beginner class sign up through Instagram & our website. Roll up your sleeves and get messy through our therapeutic, wonderfully social and spirited introduction to the joys of throwing. ⚡️
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#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek Day 6, words by @gregorytingay "Members of our studio community are of every age and experience. Tina Forester, our senior member, was with me at my former studio; she brings her many years of practice as maker and teacher to the table and is greatly loved. All who join the Studio come seeking community in making; loneliness has become especially normative in these times and being able to go work in clay with other makers in a shared space provides spiritual and emotional nourishment in a uniquely creative way. This new world of pandemics, conflict in Eastern Europe and learning to live with unexpected challenges has had an extraordinary impact in the thinking of so many. Seeking meaning and greater simplicity of living chimes perfectly with the innately therapeutic and contemplative character of pottery. Rediscovering the work of our hands in clay is to connect again with centuries of human making. Pottery, as an art, as a craft, rooted in function reminds us that the simplest of objects has beauty and gives dignity to the quality of ever day living. To drink from a well-crafted mug, to eat from a generous bowl; to contemplate a vase or sculptural vessel as it occupies space and time and its surfaces reflect the changing light of day... this is to live a good life in the present moment. A pot invites the touch of a human hand; it speaks to the beholder and in its own understated voice sings of the maker whose hand formed it. Coming together as community in the shared joy of making pots and vessels and objects in clay provides a way of hope. Linked to a long past of pottery, we can look to the future by living step by step in the present as we slowly hone our skills and form objects of beauty from the base material of life." #IveBeenThere #Friendship #Loneliness #Share #Care #Knowledge #Community #pottery #studiopottery #pot #potterystudio #openstudio #ceramics #clay #selfcare #potterofinstagram #ceramicsofinstagram #artist #maker #artiststudio #learnpottery #potteryworkshop #membership #potteryforall
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#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek Day 5, words by @gregorytingay “Essential to growing as community and in expertise are the skills brought to the studio by co founder and Director Lucy Attwood. Coming from the art world, Lucy has worked assiduously to promote the public profile of the studio, its members and represented artists. During lockdown the online sales gallery for the studio was set up as a valuable means of generating income and promoting the careers and practice of members and represented artists. Promotion through the press and social media is an ongoing process; engaging with the wider art world brings in new people to try their hand at making in clay. Issues of social justice came to the fore this last summer. During our first year our team and studio life was greatly assisted by my apprentice, a degree student from Central St Martin’s, on placement with us, who quickly became a valued assistant on many levels. As a small team running the studio, we have been blessed by the generous hearted service of our young Technician and by our Studio Manager. The latter started as a first member then moved into the team and latterly has been encouraged in her career development to take on a role within The Great Pottery Throwdown @kilngirlrose.”
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#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek Day 4, words by @gregorytingay “We are a community: a community of like-minded makers who share a deep love of making in clay. We are not a random collective, but as the membership continues to grow in these troubled times, we strive to form community. With the restrictions on numbers, our teaching aspect has had to be tailored to smaller groups. Space is one of the studio’s great strengths, so we have been able to space out our wheels and enable these smaller classes. Members are able to continue their practice with the innovative Mind Body App facilitating booking wheel and studio time in the knowledge that their experience within the studio can be as stress free as possible. Within the current cautionary guidelines concerning distancing, members can still feel a part of a creating community with ready access to our team of technicians, studio manager and mentoring by myself. Indeed it is a unique aspect to Studio Pottery London that there is a resident professional potter whose experience and vision helped shape the studio from its inception. As Artistic Director, one of my primary roles is to offer regular mentoring to members and encouragement to teachers and pupils. Being able to talk about one’s practice with an empathetic fellow maker helps individuals to grow in their work as well as establish relationship and community.”
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We are pinching ourselves, in excited expectation of hosting Holly Tucker MBE this evening speaking to our community alongside Directors @luzattwood & @gregorytingay. 🍀 Turning Passion into Profit… Founder of Not On The High Street and passionate supporters of small businesses and of those who choose to live a life less ordinary. #hollytucker #notonthehighstreet #lucky #inspiration
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#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek Day 3, words by @gregorytingay “Sited in the centre of London, we have electric kilns not flame, again distinguishing us from rural potteries who can use gas or wood to fire their kilns. Rather than regarding this as a limitation we are inspired by the innovative vision of that other titan of 20th century ceramics, Lucie Rie. She exemplifies that Viennese urbanity referenced by de Waal. Escaping the Nazi menace in wartime Vienna, she settled in a mews house in London and quietly produced superlative pots entirely fired in her electric kilns. Inspired by Lucie Rie and her followers, such as that great pedagogue of contemporary glaze making Emmanuel Cooper, we at the Studio have expanded our glazes to satisfy a more contemporary palette. Tradition always finding new expression. Our shared ethos is that dictum of the Studio Pottery movement: the importance of the uniting of heart, hand and mind in the act of making, together with a respect for material and the evergreen challenge of seeking excellence through practice, repetition and mindfulness.”
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#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek Day 2, words by @gregorytingay “The studio design was rooted in friendship. The design of our studio was a collaboration between myself, Lucy and a third pupil of mine, Vesna Aksentijevic an interior architect whose firm facilitated her design. Thus the Anglo-Japanese/ British Studio Pottery lineage received and transmitted from teacher to pupil is enshrined within our studio’s sense of itself. Critically though, the qualifying description of ‘London’ to ‘Studio Pottery London’ acts both as a geographical indicator and as a sign of something more. We are indeed the first membership and teaching studio to have started up in recent times in the very centre of London, near Victoria and bordering Belgravia. As part of Grosvenor Estate’s regeneration of Eccleston Yards, the Studio enjoys large window street frontage enabling gallery standard displays of curated ceramics as well as allowing partial views of the inner workings of classes and makers within. There is a modernity about the studio; it is urban and metropolitan, not a classic rural studio pottery according to the cliché of clogs, stone flagged floors, kick wheels and wood-fired kilns. Here Edmund de Waal’s allusions to the seminal European schools of design reinforce that equally important element of our character. A sense of the past, an awareness and respect for tradition, goes hand in hand with an appreciation of what is contemporary, of what is new in ceramics. Although we cater primarily for making in clay on the wheel, we also welcome hand-builders and have connections to two fine practitioners of 3D ceramic making.” Image by @dutodom
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In honour of #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, our Artistic Director @gregorytingay has been reflecting on what sharing knowledge and friendship means. “Here is @edmunddewaal favourable allusions in his words at the opening of the Studio in 2019 to the seminal European schools of C20th design reinforce that equally important element of our character. He exclaimed at the beauty of the studio and its first impression on entering: sensing echoes of the Wiener Werkstätte and the later Bauhaus, those iconic 20th century schools of design, art, craft, and pioneering modernity, here transposed into a spacious, bespoke 21st century studio of ceramics in the heart of London. Considering the studio from this informed pan-European and international history, even if only from the visual aesthetics of the design, points to a vital element of our founding vision. Awareness of tradition is key to our self-understanding. We chose the name ‘Studio Pottery London’ carefully. Whilst a monk at Buckfast Abbey I was trained at the potter’s wheel by one of Bernard Leach’s early pupils, Mary Boys-Adams (née Gibson Horrocks), who had worked at St Ives alongside David Leach, and later with Michael Cardew and Sam Haile. This immersion into that seminal history of the British Studio Pottery revival, bridging as it did the ideals and practice of both East and West through the joint efforts of the Japanese master potter Hamada and Leach, created a sense of pottery lineage. As Mary had been taught by Bernard Leach, himself taught in the Kenzan school in Japan, so I was taught and then taught Lucy Attwood, co-founder of Studio Pottery London.” Image by @dutodom
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A potters’ market presents an alluring opportunity to purchase unique hand-crafted ceramics to enhance the home and daily living. Nothing beats the pleasure of drinking from a beautiful handmade mug, or eating from a pottery bowl. Our membership community come together twice a year to sell and share their making in @ecclestonyards @belgravia_ldn. 🦋 Pictured here are wheel-thrown espresso mugs by the studio Artistic Director @gregorytingay, featuring his signature sgraffito patterns. Don’t miss the opportunity to source hand-made pieces like these and other objects at our outdoor summer market on the 12th June 🎪
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Following our post yesterday we present the studio kiln room, where the magic happens ✨ The high firing temperature is what transforms clay into ceramics. The heat from the kilns make this room the perfect place for drying our reclaim clay, ready to be reused and made into new pieces. #pottery #studiopottery #pot #potterystudio #openstudio #ceramics #wheelthrown #clay #mud #potterofinstagram #ceramicsofinstagram #artist #maker #artiststudio #learnpottery #potteryworkshop #membership #potteryforall #kiln #fire #stoneware #potteryprocess #reclaimclay #reuse #recycle
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