Ceramics stories
The garden of stones: How a dream transformed the practice of glazing - Anne-Marie Dehon shares a dreamlike experience of the ceramic glaze as a vibrant, living material, prompting her to consider her glazing practice as a form of "gardening" built on careful observation and collaboration with the transformative nature of minerals.
The Ripple Effect: A clay response to Żelazny Most - Alicja Patanowska creates an arresting art installation in the V&A Museum's garden by transforming 2,000 unique ceramic pieces made from the waste of Europe’s largest copper mine into a profound reflection on environmental damage and material care.
Hurry Pottery ✿ The slow dance of nature - Diana Beklemesheva is inspired by the natural patterns visible in the flows of sand and fire.
Kolet: Ceramics unbound in Iran - Atefe Mirsane reports on a unique event to foster monumental ceramics in Iran.
Bonne Aventure ✿ How stars come to earth - Loraine Savary of Rousse tells the story of celestial ceramic works that promise good fortune.
Biosphere Boodja: Clay creatures on giant domes - Vanessa Gould tells of Fleur Schell's journey from childhood enchantment to shared appreciation of Country with Aunty Tracey.
Skyways - Shannon Garson reflects on the childhood that inspired a love of the night sky that she captures in her moon jars.
Nganin nganitj cry to protect the night sky - Bat teaches Kelly Ann Blake about the need to protect the night sky which can be lost due to light pollution.
Cups of memory: Individuals within the collective - Jessica Hemmings is moved by an installation of coffee cups to mark the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.
Johanna De Maine and Tatsuya Tsutsui ✿ Ukiyo - Our August laurel goes to Johanna De Maine and Tatsuya Tsutsui for the sublime floating world of "Ukiyo".
Timi Lantos ✿ Learning from clay in Japan - Liliana Morais writes about a Hungarian potter who moved to the legendary craft town of Mashiko to learn from its soil and people. 
The Guardian Tiger: Ancestral Protection - Nani Puspasari is able to reconnect with her ancestors through ceramic installations that evoke time with grandparents.
Steph Wallace ✿ Holding the Void - Our June Laurel has made a vessel that reflects the volcanic and mining cavities that resonate through her second home in Ballarat.
Finding Vomit Girl: A pilgrimage to the source of mộc mạc - Mai Nguyễn-Long takes on her journey to discover her lost connection to village culture in Vietnam.
The tale of Nneburube - Ngozi Omeje incarnates the matriarchal Igbo story of the circle of connections that make a community.
Nonna’s Abundant Protection from the Malocchio - Celine Babet recreates the cornicello protection charm of her Sicilian ancestors in vibrant ceramic clusters.
Data archeology in clay - Using data visualisation, Guillaume Slizewicz re-embodies archaeology back into clay fragments.
Studio Calyx Kolkata: Clay in community - Arpita Bhattacharya writes about an art space in Kolkata, West Bengal, which engages the community around clay.
Stoneware dreams of plastic memories - Liisa Nelson shares the inspiration behind her works for the exhibition at The Clay Studio.
Naga Mae Daw Serpent: Maternal energy uncoils in Myanmar - Soe Yu Nwe explains why she is drawn to the snake as inspiration for her work.
Jamnalal Kumhar ✿ The rainbow Naga - A master temple sculptor made terracotta plaques showing the evolution of the Indian Naga into the Aboriginal Rainbow Serpent.
The value of craft in fiction - D Wood describes how craft activates the fictional worlds of "Blue Caftan" and "The Healing Season of Pottery."
Kalighat Temple: A terracotta revival - Tamal Bhattacharya reflects on his work restoring the terracotta tiles of an ancient Bengali temple.
Making Memolo: Temple domes from Sitiwinangun, Cirebon - Akbar Adhi Satrio tracks the origins and future of the ceramic dome, part of Indonesia's Hindu heritage
The Andes as temple - Keka Ruiz Tagle evokes the wisdom of her ancestors contained in vessels of light.
Vipoo gives Jooyun’s teapot a new life - An exhibition at the Australian Design Centre features Vipoo Srivilasa's restorative ceramics.
Ngozi Omeje ✿ For the love and joy of it - A conversation with an important African ceramicist about her creative work and the challenge of being a clay artist in Nigeria.
Kate Fitzharris ✿ The Good Egg - Kate Fitzharris is our October laurel for delicate ceramic works that poignantly care for our fragile world.
Ceramics Southern Africa: Down to earth connections - Rosh Sewpersad finds that membership is thriving in an African ceramics organisation, thanks to exhibition opportunities.
Blumhardt Foundation: An angel of New Zealand craft - Philip Clarke explains how a generous bequest became a foundation that made a unique contribution to New Zealand craft. 
South of the River Potters Club: After 50 years, a home of its own - As Barrie-Anne Morgan argues, local government support was critical to the longevity of this legendary potters' club.
Expanding the table: Vicki Grima’s impact on the Australian ceramics community - Amelia Black writes about the way the director of the Australian Ceramics Association created a sense of community in times of adversity.
Farid Abu Shakra ✿ GROUND? - The curator Shlomit Bauman and the artist Farid Abu Shakra seek a common humanity.
Between the quarry and paradise: Grafting rubbish onto nature - Lauren Downton shares her journey from the dazzling nature of South Africa to the withered landscape of South Australia, from which has emerged hybrid porcelain forms.
Anne Nginyangka Thompson ✿ My favourite place out bush - Anne Nginyangka Thompson talks about her commitment to preserving culture and Country through her ceramic work.
Together with Montaigne’s Cat: Gyeonggi Ceramics Biennale 2024 - In 2024, South Korea's international ceramics biennale will reflect how ceramics bridges race, culture and history.
Birender Kumar Yadav ✿ Presencing the keepers of the kiln - Our March Laurel goes to Birender Kumar Yadav for his terracotta installation in homage to brick kiln workers, one of the highlights of the Indian Ceramics Triennale. 
Contemporary deities: Vipoo Srivilasa and Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran - Elena Dias-Jayasinha writes about two artists whose ceramic works invoke deities of inclusivity.
The flip side: Art protest and making ceramics - Joana Partyka explains the paradox of making expressionist ceramics while also defacing masterpieces to highlight the damage of fossil fuel projects.
Petersham Escarpment: The mountain comes to the city - Through the mysterious alchemy of the kiln, Simon Reece brings the landscape of the majestic Blue Mountains to an inner urban plaza.
Aleisa Miksad ✿ Bacchic ceramics - Our February laurel is awarded to Aleisa Miksad for a vessel that bristles with Dionysian energy.
Esther Elia ✿ An Assyrian Prayer Bowl - Our December laurel is awarded to an Assyrian living in the USA who makes prayer bowls with messages of cultural resilience.
Peter Hawkesby ✿ Building a heart basket - Lucy Hammonds writes about a New Zealand ceramicist whose work is grounded on the land he walks.
Lest we forget the skillful touch - Curtis Benzle argues for the need to appreciate the work of the hand in a digital age.
Mother’s touch: An interview with ceramicist Richilde Flavell - Yasmin Masri writes about Richilde Flavell's use of ceramics to explore the transformational experience of becoming a mother. 
Touchstones:The sensual work of studio potter Jane Sawyer - Carolyn Leach-Paholski reflects on the pleasures at hand of a slow ceramics.
Peranakan tiles: A harmony of colour, motif and texture - Ananya Mallick explores "hands on" the production of traditional tiles in Malaysia.
Stevei Houkāmau ✿ Clay as whakapapa - Zoe Black tracks the journey of Stevei Houkāmau in finding whakapapa connections through ceramics.
The sense of clay in the Anthropocene - Attracted by its smell and feel, Yuliya Makliuk has taken up clay as a cause for good in the world.
Mai Nguyễn-Long ✿ Vomit Girl - Mai Nguyễn-Long introduces her Kôgábịnô exhibition, featuring works that express the Vietnamese punk-like aesthetic of mộc mạc. 
Self Medication: Korean Ceramic Art - Choi Leeji shares her vision of Korean ceramics, as it flows out of its traditional sources.
Sarah Khan ✿ Spoons as weapons of mass creation - Our September laurel Sarah K Khan, inspired by a sixteenth-century Indian Cookbook in Persian, decorates her spoons in honor of women’s knowledge.
Strange tales from a Chinese studio: Geng Xue’s porcelain imaginary - For Luise Guest, the surreal porcelain of Geng Xue is inspired by the rich history of a Chinese imaginary.
Brisbane Art and Design Festival 2023: A vessel for diversity of creative practice - Pamela See reviews a ceramics exhibition that reveals a vibrant Brisbane scene using clay as a language of fragility
sounds of clay and me, making - Toni Warburton describes the sounds that orchestrate her work in ceramics. 
David Ray ✿ Four Treasons - Our June laurel is awarded to David Ray for his Four Treasons series of figurines that update the bucolic Staffordshire genre.
“I feel as if I’ve dropped into a secret cave”: The power of clay in recent Indian fiction - D Wood reviews two recent novels by Indian writers that evoke the allure of ceramics.
UYalezo – New Traditions - Andile Dyalvane's ceremonial ceramic works embody traditional knowledge about nature transmitted by ancestors.
Jane DuRand ✿ Walking through landscape, tile by tile - Our March laurel goes to Jane DuRand for an epic installation of tiles that evoke the myriad dimensions of the landscapes she loves to walk through.
Taste-makers: A selection of tableware made by hand today - You are invited to sample tableware by today's makers from around the world.