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Ceramics in the City 2024

Join us this September for our annual market celebrating the world of ceramics. Located in the creative hub of East London, Ceramics in the City highlights the artistry of local and international ceramic artists.

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The weekend will have a selection of ceramic works to suit all budgets. Meet the makers and browse everything from functional tableware and earthy stoneware to vivid ornamental objects and striking one-off collector pieces. For exclusive first access to the market, join us at the launch event and private view on Friday 13 September.

Get early access to Ceramics in the City

Friday 13 September 2024 - 6pm | Private view & launch event

This launch event offers early bird access to the work on show and the opportunity to meet the artists and makers ahead of the fair’s official opening the next day. 

About Karen Bunting, founder of Ceramics in the City

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 70s, 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. 

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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. 

What else is on this London Design Week?

Housewarming: A Museum Late

Join us for the launch evening for an exciting new season of Museum Lates, celebrating the many stories and histories in our new gallery, Rooms Through Time: 1878-2049.

Czech Glass Stories

Daniela Vrabcová Chodilová presents a new playful collection of their LAOKON brand at Museum of the Home.

Project 3000 : Miniature pottery

An exhibition of 3,000 miniature pots created by SGW Lab, a London-based ceramics studio led by ceramics designer Yuta Segawa.

Date
Friday 13 September to Sunday 15 September 2024

Time
Friday, 6pm-9pm | Saturday & Sunday, 10am-5pm

Cost
Free entry | Private view £5

Location
Museum of the Home

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