Ceramics

“The fire is the last unknown.”

Showing 15 ceramics exhibitions on now and coming soon in London & the UK.

Peter Beard: The Long Practice of Change

Ends in 5 days

Contemporary Ceramics

Peter Beard: The Long Practice of Change

Until Oct 10

CeramicsContemporary Art

New porcelain work born from two ceramic residencies in China

Ends in 13 days

The Whitworth

Michaela Yearwood-Dan

Until Oct 18

CeramicsMixed MediaDrawing & Works on PaperSound ArtPainting

First UK institutional show — lush, queer, multi-sensory commission celebrating Blackness and healing

The Hepworth Wakefield

Mrinalini Mukherjee

Until Nov 1

CeramicsDrawing & Works on PaperTextilesPrintsSculpture

First UK retrospective of Indian modernist sculptor Mukherjee — fibre, bronze, ceramic across 40 years

TKE Studios

Alex Morante & Enrique López Llamas: Sugar, We're Going Down

Until Nov 1

CeramicsInstallationSculptureContemporary Art

Ceramic beasts and painted sculpture in a crumpled silver bunker

Akiko Hirai: Things that disappear when touched

Coming Soon

Contemporary Ceramics

Akiko Hirai: Things that disappear when touched

Starting Oct 15

CeramicsContemporary Art

Fragile, imperfect forms exploring quiet equilibrium and delicate imbalance

Frith Street Gallery

Colin Self: Unseen

Until Nov 7

CeramicsMixed MediaDrawing & Works on PaperPrintsInstallationPaintingSculpturePop Art

First London retrospective of Pop artist Colin Self since 1986

The Bluecoat

Julia at the Bluecoat

Until Nov 8

FreePhotographyCeramics

Archive display marking the centenary of ceramicist Julia Carter Preston

The Bluecoat

Becky Beasley: A Gentle Man (Part II) (1975-2029)

Until Jan 3, 2027

FreePhotographyCeramicsVideo & Moving ImageInstallationSculptureContemporary Art

A green floorscape, curtain sculptures and a four-part video portrait

Camden Art Centre

Liz Larner: A hard line to bend

Until Jan 17, 2027

FreeCeramicsSculptureContemporary Art

Radical sculpture in clay, bronze and salvaged plastic, from myth to the cosmos

3/5 from 1 rating

"Choosing to focus on new ceramic works instead of properly introducing this relatively little-known American artist with a survey or retrospective is a strange choice that doesn't service the audience. This result is a muddled, disparate, confusing mishmash of an introduction to an artist whose career deserved a simpler, easier way in."

The Guardian

British Museum

Korea

Until Jan 31, 2027

CeramicsPaintingSculpture

Two millennia of art from the Lee Kun-Hee bequest, mostly unseen in the UK

3.3/5 from 4 ratings

"And then the spell is broken. The show shifts forward suddenly, brutally, into some so-so early 20th-century Korean art. Modern pastiches of traditional art mix awkwardly with European and American-style modernism from the 1900s to 1950s."

The Guardian

Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant: Inside Bloomsbury

Coming Soon

Tate Britain

Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant: Inside Bloomsbury

Starting Nov 12

CeramicsTextilesDesignPaintingPost-Impressionism

Bloomsbury’s celebrated duo, with their Charleston studio restaged

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Hold to this Earth: Works by Contemporary Indigenous North American Artists from Tia Collection

Until Apr 18, 2027

PhotographyCeramicsTextilesVideo & Moving ImagePaintingSculpture

Unprecedented European showcase of 60+ works by 30+ Indigenous North American artists

4/5 from 1 rating

"After centuries of colonialism and exploitation, there's just so much anger and pain here. This show isn't just about the earth and memory, this is art as a form of aesthetic resistance. It's hard not to see these ideas of stolen land and colonialism through the lens of Trump's regime with its ICE raids and travel bans."

The Guardian