Ceramics in the City 2025 - Museum of the Home

About the event

Located in the creative hub of East London, this fair highlights the artistry of ceramicists from London and beyond. The weekend will exhibit an array of styles, techniques, colour and texture from functional tableware and earthy stoneware to vivid ornamental objects and striking one-off unique pieces.

As well as being able to meet and talk to the makers, there will be engaging demonstrations, highlighting the incredible skill and brilliance of this artform.

For exclusive first access to the market, join us at the launch event and private view on Friday 12 September.

Curators

Anna Silverton

Born in Gloucestershire, Anna trained in London at Camberwell School of Art. After gaining her MA at the Royal College of Art, she taught and had a workshop at Syracuse University in New York, USA. She returned to London in 1991 and set up her studio with the help of a Crafts Council Setting-Up Grant. She moved to Ramsgate in Kent in 2022 where she works from her new purpose-built workshop at her home.

“I have always appreciated the Museum of the Home, through all its changes. It gives a fully immersive and seemingly intimate context to the history of domestic design and dwelling. I am excited that I have been invited to support Ceramics in the City, and what more appropriate venue is there? I am looking forward to witnessing firsthand the wide variety of contemporary talent on offer. Ceramicists make such wide-ranging products, from functional ware to one-off sculptural objects; ceramic objects bring joy, offer a source of contemplation and can generally elevate the way we live.”

https://www.annasilverton.com/

Nam Tran | Cernamic

An award-winning fine ceramic art practitioner exhibiting internationally. Specialising in wheel-thrown raku, bringing years of experience and craftsmanship to every object made. He focuses primarily on exploring the physical properties of clay and material experimentation with alternative firing techniques. Nam likes to create pieces inspired by his childhood memories of video games and toys with a modern twist. He studied at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Arts.

Alongside Susi Huang, Nam founded Cernamic, a ceramic studio which strives to make this art form entirely accessible to anyone willing to give it a try.

https://www.cernamic.com/

Stallholders

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Founded by Karen Bunting

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 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.

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.

A round ceramic plate viewed from above, with a terracotta rim and white glazed surface, adorned with delicate brown fern leaf prints. A mossy branch rests across the plate. — Gulmohar, Vallari Harshwal

A beige ceramic mug with a wide base and two handles, featuring a painted smiling face with closed eyes. It sits on a wooden surface next to a leaf. — Teshome Douglas-Campbell

A geometric ceramic vase with a flat base and sloped shoulders, decorated with abstract forms in muted peach, blue, and black. Sunlight casts a strong shadow. — Louise Power

A textured ceramic bust of a person with eyes closed and serene expression. The earthy-toned surface shows weathering, with turquoise-green tones on the shoulders and chest. — Woman, Annemarie di Villiers

A heavily textured, dark brownish grey ceramic vessel with a rounded body, small base, and looping sculptural handles. Its rough surface appears encrusted, giving it a volcanic, ancient look. — Black Winged Bowl, Kasia Howlett

A line-up of six ceramic espresso cups in a range of matte glazes—spotted terracotta, grey, off-white, black, cream, and brown—arranged on a pinkish grey surface against a brownish beige background. — Espresso Cups, Clare Spindler

An angular ceramic pitcher with a rounded bottom and abstract painted patterns in teal, red, black, and ochre. The playful, modern design is complemented by a contrasting handle and sharply curved spout. — Gilly Whittington

A rustic ceramic teapot with earthy tones and a round body sits on a wooden surface. It features a curved bamboo handle secured with white twine. — Teapot, Lisa Sjukur

A ceramic teapot with an earthy glaze and two matching teacups on a dark surface. The pottery has a natural aesthetic with abstract black markings. — Katherine Coulter

A blurred figure walks across a room in front of weathered looking panels and windows showing a model of a city.

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