Jo Taylor awarded UK’s largest ceramics prize for her Bridgerton-inspired vessels
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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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Clay Films
In its inaugural edition, Clay Films showcases the work of six Global Majority artists of African and Caribbean heritage from all over the world, including Iran, Mexico and South Africa.
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Award 2025
Award features ten UK-based artists working with clay who have created new work for the 2025 British Ceramics Biennial.
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Fresh 2025
Fresh 2025 brings critical attention to artists from all over the UK and Ireland at a pivotal moment in their careers.
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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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