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Emily’s work is born from her passion for working with clay and exploring it’s creative possibilities. By working intuitively, Emily manipulates forms she has thrown on the potter’s wheel while they are wet and malleable. Later she applies layers of glaze in bold and abstract designs. Glazes are dribbled, poured and brushed across the surface, bringing colour and spontaneity.
Emily’s work explores and celebrates female identity. The curves of her vessels mimic the female form - the clay bent and stretched from it’s precise symmetry on the potter’s wheel. Emily came to clay in 2016 following the birth of her third child, to experiment and nourish her creative side - she has found clay an ideal medium for exploring the narrative of female identity - with it’s tensile strength and ability to hold a contour. Over time she has come to realise the importance of following her own natural cycle to the creative production of her work.
Emily’s inspiration comes from art potters such as Betty Woodman and Rudy Autio as well as figurative artists and abstract expressionists. In 2021, she was awarded Arts Council funding to focus on developing larger scale sculptural work.
Currently, Emily works and teaches from her shared studio at Windmill Hill City Farm in South Bristol, a studio that she co-founded in 2021. Her career has included studies in Social Anthropology, teaching in East Africa and Indonesia, Communications and Illustration.

Stockists
Thrown Contemporary Gallery, London
RWA Shop, Royal West of England Academy, Queens Rd, Bristol
New Brewery Arts, Brewery Court, Cirencester
Exhibitions & Fairs
Celebrating Ceramics Festival, Waterperry Gardens Oxfordshire, 14 - 16 July 2023
Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea, Fringe Arts Bath, 15 New Bond St Bath, 26 - 29 May 2023
My Body In My Hands, SVA Gallery Stroud, May 2023
Easter Sculpture Festival, Bristol Botanic Garden, April 2023
Drawn Together, Serchia Gallery Bristol, March 2023
THROWN CONTEMPORARY Winter Exhibition 22/23, 17 Nov - 29 Jan 2023
Independent Ceramics Market, Rich Mix London, 11 Dec 2022
Totterdown Arts Trail, Bristol, 19-20 November 2022
CELEBRATING CERAMICS Festival, Waterperry Gardens, Oxfordshire, 15 -17 July 2022
A Crafted Christmas Exhibition, New Brewery Arts, Cirencester, 5 November - 24 December 2021
BRISTOL CLAY Exhibition, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol, 12 - 24 November 2021
Bristol 24/7 article
CLAY: A Festival of Ceramics, Exeter, 25 - 26 September 2020
ALCHEMY 2019 Exhibition, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol, September 2019
Tobacco Factory Market, Tobacco Factory, Bristol, 19 May 2019
Totterdown Arts Trail, Bristol, 17-19 November 2017