Ceramics in the City 2024

Located in the creative hub of East London, Ceramics in the City highlights the artistry of local and international ceramic artists.

About founder, Karen Bunting

Karen was born and brought up in Yorkshire. She graduated from London University with a degree in chemistry but quickly realised that this was not the career for her. After a brief stint programming computers in the early 70’s, she discovered pottery and felt she had arrived home. She had always been someone who enjoyed making, and ceramics was the perfect combination of form and function.  

After working with a potter on the Yorkshire coast, Karen moved to Brixton and set up her first studio in an Acme studio on Acre Lane. A few years later, she moved her workshop to her home in Hackney and built a gas kiln. She started reduction firing and this enabled her to develop her work further, utilising the unifying nature of atmospheric firing.

In 2002 she set up the Ceramics in the City market at Museum of the Home.

Karen lived and worked in Hackney for over forty years and brought up her children here with her artist husband, Peter Bunting. She made and sold pots for nearly fifty years, and exhibited and sold work in galleries and ceramic events both here and abroad.