Artizan Sculpture Season - Autumn

Experience sculpture and ceramics with character, depth, and storytelling this Autumn at Artizan.

Our latest Sculpture Season will showcase five exceptional makers exploring clay, glass, and ceramic surfaces in bold and unexpected ways.

• Bev Knowlden brings her background in puppet animation and model-making to clay portraiture, creating resin-cast works that are by turns haunting, humorous, and theatrical, often combining fragility with striking detail.

• Jack Richardson (Le. Jack) investigates the balance of masculine and feminine energies, sculpting clay forms that blur abstraction and figuration, drawing on a mastery of materials honed through blacksmithing and stained glass.

• Tracy Nicholls works in kiln-formed glass, pushing the material to its limits to explore themes of decay and erosion, producing monochrome sculptures with satin finishes that capture fragility, light, and shadow.

• Alison West wheel-throws vessels inspired by Greek and Japanese traditions, transforming them with saggar-firing, foraged materials, and Devon terra sigillata slips, to produce surfaces marked by fire, nature, and place.

• Becca Brown combines illustration, printmaking, and clay, layering porcelain and stoneware forms with narrative drawing and folkloric imagery, leaving making marks visible to celebrate the intimacy between vessel and story.

Note opening hours closing week: Tuesday 23rd December, 10am–5pm, and Wednesday 24th December, 10am–1pm.