Ceramics in the City 2026

Suleyman Saba’s work consists of hand-thrown tableware and statement pieces that combine traditional techniques with modern sensibilities. He trained at The Camberwell College of Arts and was apprenticed to Kevin Millward in Stoke-on-Trent, before establishing a London-based studio. 

His work is held public collections including Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, York Art Gallery (Ismay Collection), and Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland. 

Instagram: @suleyman_saba 

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/

Alison Poon
Andrea Martha Gordon Fungueiro | Taller Cuñai
Ann Hughes 
Birgit Pohl | Birgit Pohl Ceramics
Calum Greaney
Caroline Lingwood
Chaeeun Kim
Chloe Rogers
Debbie Randall
Deborah Marock
Elizabeth Renton
Emily Wilcox
Emma Baldwin
Ersoy Emin
Fern Taylor
Gail Altschuler
Gilly Whittington
Grace Birkett Kenrick
Harriet Caslin
Helen French
Jennifer Morris
Jill Tattersall
John Dawson
Jola Spytkowska
Kasia Howlett
Kate Schuricht
Kyra Mihailovic
Lisa Sjukur
Liz O’Dwyer
Mamiko Karasudani-Esposito
Maria Fernanda Garcia
Mary Wright
Nam Tran | Cernamics
Noriko Nagaoka
Olena Hassell
Peter Smith
Rachel Karasik
Sarah Bowring
Schneider Schneider
Sian Patterson
Suleyman Saba
Susan Swales
Tamsin Arrowsmith-Brown
Tim Lake
Yoshiko Yano 

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.