Ceramic Artists with Distinctive Approaches to Form

Thrown, coiled, burnished, slab-built, torn or pressed into moulds: clay can take almost any form, and these ceramic artists each found a way of shaping it that you can recognise across a gallery. The entries point to what to look for in the work itself, the thinness of a rim, a fingerprint left in the surface, a glaze that pools or a pot built to be thrown open, and name the families, workshops and studio teams who helped make it. They run in order of birth, from a self-styled mad potter in Mississippi to sculptors working at monumental scale today.