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Contemporary Ceramics is the leading gallery for British studio ceramics.
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Contemporary Ceramics Centre is a retail gallery showcasing the best of British studio ceramics. Situated opposite the British Museum, the gallery has an annual exhibition program featuring national and international artists. With a regularly changing display, it is always possible to see and buy a wide range of work from functional tableware to individual collector's pieces.

14/10/2026

Preview today!

Akiko Hirai: Things That Disappear When Touched

Today, 2pm-8pm
Drinks reception from 6pm

Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell Street, WC1B 3BF

Open to the public from tomorrow until 7th November.

12/10/2026

Final preparations are underway!

Things That Disappear when Touched, a new solo exhibition by Akiko Hirai, opens this Thursday at Contemporary Ceramics.

Join us for the preview
2pm-8pm, Wednesday 14th October 2026
Drinks reception: starting from 6pm.
Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell Street, London.

Akiko Hirai’s new body of work explores objects that express a quiet equilibrium. These are fragile, shifting forms that exist in a state of delicate imbalance. They resist perfection, remaining slightly unresolved, unsettled and quietly alive.

“People often speak of the 'beauty of imperfection,' but not everything imperfect is beautiful. Explaining the difference is like Rubin’s vase: once you see it, you can always see it. My challenge now is to put that difference into words.” Akiko Hirai

The exhibition opens online and in the gallery from Thursday 15th October and runs until Saturday 7th November 2026.

Discover more here https://buff.ly/CMnXK8M

10/10/2026

Gilles Le Corre makes individual thrown stoneware forms, then freely manipulates them while the clay is still soft. Some are altered in shape, others carry incised marks that give the surface a subtle, tactile quality and a sense of captured movement.

He works with textured clays that keep all their natural impurities, which adds an element of unpredictability. In the reduction kiln, the streaks and specks flow and scatter at random, interacting with the layers of slip and glaze.

Gilles graduated in Ceramics from Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, where he studied under Ian Auld, Colin Pearson, Ewen Henderson and Janice Tchalenko, whom he later assisted in her studio.

See Gilles’s work at Contemporary Ceramics: https://buff.ly/Oc1JT3J

09/10/2026

Closing Saturday 10th October!
Peter Beard | The Long Practice of Change

"The glazes are just the start." Peter Beard has spent over 50 years making vessels and sculptures, and where change informs his ceramic practice, whether in his studio or through residencies.

The exhibition closes this Saturday 10 October. Come and see the new porcelain and glazes for yourself. His hope is that you'll feel "a little tingle like a hug of warmth."

Read the full In Conversation and shop the exhibition here https://buff.ly/0MS2qV6

Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3BF

06/10/2026

Final week: Peter Beard | The Long Practice of Change

"The glazes are just the start." Peter Beard has spent over 50 years making vessels and sculptures, and where change informs his ceramic practice, whether in his studio or through residencies.

The exhibition closes this Saturday 10 October. Come and see Peter's new porcelain and glazes for yourself. His hope is that you'll feel "a little tingle like a hug of warmth."

Shop the exhibition here https://buff.ly/0MS2qV6 and in person at:

Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3BF

05/10/2026

Things That Disappear When Touched
A solo exhibition of new work by Akiko Hirai

Join us for the preview
2pm-8pm, Wednesday 14th October 2026
Drinks reception: starting from 6pm.

You are invited to the preview of Akiko Hirai’s forthcoming solo exhibition Things That Disappear When Touched taking place between 2pm–8pm on Wednesday 14th October 2026 at Contemporary Ceramics, 63 Great Russell Street, London.

Hirai's new work is about a quiet equilibrium. Fragile, shifting forms sit in a delicate balance, and they resist perfection, staying slightly unresolved and quietly alive. In her words, it's as if "the act of holding too tightly might cause something essential to disappear."

We'd love to see you at the gallery. Find out more on our website: https://buff.ly/EM3whbW

The exhibition opens online and in the gallery from Thursday 15th October and runs until Saturday 7th November 2026

03/10/2026

Saturday Spotlight: Martin Pearce

Martin Pearce makes abstract, sculptural pieces inspired by natural forms. His work often carries the quality of moving water or drifting cloud, while other pieces seem to sit in quiet contemplation.

Martin began his career as an interior designer in the late 1970s. After moving to London, he started collecting ceramics from galleries and fairs, and clay became an obsession. He had thrown his first pot at ten, with a little help from his father. Today he works from his studio near the Sussex coast, beginning with a sketched shape or simply an idea, then working intuitively with the material.

"My work is an ongoing dialogue with clay. I create a balance of light and shadow, solid and void to provoke the imagination, memory and dream."

Martin's bottles, towers and sculptural forms are available now. Follow the link to explore the full collection https://buff.ly/QuZSboD

28/09/2026

"I have never looked at clay as a material or a language – it is clay..." Peter Beard

Peter Beard starts work between 5 and 6 every morning, and more than fifty years into his career, he says he's as excited to get into the studio as he was in 1973, when he first left college.

In our new In Conversation, Peter talks about the China residencies that led to his latest work, and about a first trip in 1982 that was paid for by an aunt's bequest. He also explains why shiny glazes surprised him after a lifetime of matt.

And what does he hope you'll feel in front of his pieces? "A little tingle like a hug of warmth."

Read the full conversation here https://buff.ly/8Xy6PLF

The Long Practice of Change continues at Contemporary Ceramics until Saturday 10th October.

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63 Great Russell Street
London
WC1B3BF

Telephone

+442072429644

Website

https://www.contemporaryceramics.uk/

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