Tristram Hunt, Director of V&A, is recognised for services to museums, heritage and culture.
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British Ceramics Biennial (BCB) is an arts organisation based in Stoke-on-Trent with a vision of making change through clay.
BCB develops, sustains and expands innovative ceramics practice and improves lives together with artists and creative communities. This is done by delivering an engaging year-round programme of artist commissions, learning and community projects. All of which feed into a contemporary ceramics biennial that takes place in Stoke-on-Trent.
British Ceramics Biennial is proud to be an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation and has support from Stoke-on-Trent City Council and the University of Staffordshire.
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We look forward to welcoming you in 2027 for our tenth Biennial!
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Clay Together Workshops
Clay Together is a chance for children and young people with care experience to get creative with clay at the BCB Studio. From clay modelling to tile-making, there will be lots of techniques to try.
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Our Impact
Learn more about BCB’s commitment to improving the lives of artists and communities through our impact framework.
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Resources
Read, watch, listen and make with resources from across our year-round programming.
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Award films 2025 – Leah Jensen
For Award 2025, Leah will create an installation around the anxiety of housing insecurity using handbuilding skills with unglazed terracotta.
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Award films 2025 – Daniel Silver
Daniel Silver uses sculpture to examine the human experience, both physical and psychological. For Award 2025, Daniel will create a series of ceramic heads painted with oil paint.
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Award films 2025 – Noor Ali Chagani and Clio Lloyd-Jacob
Noor Ali Chagani and Clio Lloyd-Jacob’s collaboration is rooted in the forms and functions of brick and clay architecture. For Award 2025, they are creating an installation of hand-built, precarious scale models interpreting existing buildings from their broad cultural heritages.
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