[Ceramic high-heel shoes]
[Ceramic spiky handbag]
[Ceramic statue]
[Porcelain figure of girl with lipstick]
[Two ceramic busts with crowns]
[Work by potter Rich Miller]
[Rich holding crown he made]
Rich Miller (interview): “As a young person growing up in West Sussex, I was made to feel very unwelcome. And so there was always this push and pull idea about what it was to be British. And my dad was fiercely proud of his Britishness. And I’ve constantly, through life, been trying to sort of rediscover and trying to learn what’s important and what makes us British. And the monarchy is something that’s unique to us and something we should all be proud of. And so it’s something that I use a lot because that idea of a monarchy and kind of the way they sort of exerted their rule across many nations, I find fascinating. So my dad was from British Guyana in South America, and he knew of the royal family and the crown long before he knew anything about the UK. And that formed all of his ideas about this country he was coming to. And I just find that fascinating.”
[Pots by Greek potter Melina Xenaki]
[Ancient Greek inspired pots by Xenaki]
[Texture and glazes on pots]
[Plate]
[Potter Melina Xenaki]
Melina Xenaki (interview): “I went through the airport once and I had a horse in my bag. So I looked at the screen with the X-ray you can see a little horse. And he did stop me and he asked me and I showed him my Instagram and it showed that because I’m a professional, I do this and he let me go. But I am worried sometimes that they’re going to mistake them for ancient artefacts. But I think the glazing is so contemporary, the colours are so contemporary that I think of them I’m safe.”
[Work by Sara Dodd]
[Large circular hanging work by Sara Dodd]
[Delicate porcelain work by Sara Dodd]
Sara Dodd (interview): “For this style I was going for, I was interested in things like coral and quite natural textures, but also interested in fabrics and dyeing and lots of textile work. So that’s what sort of inspiration behind the work is from.”
[Work by Sara Dodd]
Sara Dodd (interview): “So it’s a painstaking process. It has to be rolled very meticulously and very thin, to get it workable into the ribbons that wind up to make the work.”
[Sheep inspired by Guatemalan potter Ana Silva]
[Duck feet pot by Ana Silva]
[Ana Silva]
Ana Silva (interview): “My work it’s inspired in Guatemalan landscapes and I have different elements – the animals, the sheep, especially, this one with the little feet. And also I am representing the plants and the mountains with these green pieces.”
[Tentacular pieces by South Korean potter Shinhye You]
[Shinhye You]
Shinhye You (interview): “So basically because these stones were inside the dead people’s body, so they are like parasites. So they will kind of mimic these aspects of parasites because they will king of like consume the body of the dead. So I think that’s why you’ve got this mouthy aspect.”
[People trying pottery at the fair]
[Ceramics]
[Display case with ceramic vases]
[Visitors looking at ceramics]
This script was provided by The Associated Press.