Freelance opportunity with BCB and Stoke Creates. Deadline for applications is 12 noon, Monday 9 March 2026
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Making change through clay
British Ceramics Biennial (BCB) is a leading contemporary ceramics charity based in Stoke-on-Trent — the historic heart of the UK ceramics industry.
We support artists and communities through year-round exhibitions, commissions, residencies, learning and community projects, culminating in the British Ceramics Biennial, a major free contemporary ceramics festival.
As a registered charity, BCB champions the power of clay to inspire creativity, skills, wellbeing and regeneration. We connect local ceramic heritage with global contemporary practice, creating opportunities for artists and meaningful experiences for communities.
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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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BCB Player highlights
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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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