Ceramics Now Weekly

Hello! Welcome to the 108th edition of Ceramics Now Weekly. This is Vasi Hirdo, the founding editor of Ceramics Now. I hope you are doing well today 👋 Before we begin, a few quick updates from Ceramics Now. There’s just over a month left to apply for the first edition of Ceramics Now Annual. We welcome applications from ceramic artists at all career stages, from emerging to established, working across all areas of ceramic practice. We’re also hiring a Freelance Editorial Assistant.

Hello! Welcome to the 107th edition of Ceramics Now Weekly. This is Vasi Hirdo, the founding editor of Ceramics Now. I hope you are doing well today 👋 Before we begin, I’d like to thank everyone who has become a Ceramics Now member in the past few weeks - your support helps us feature a wide range of artists, writers, and perspectives while keeping everything we publish freely available to readers around the world.

Hello! This is Vasi Hirdo, the founding editor of Ceramics Now. I hope you are doing well today 👋 We are delighted to announce the release of Ceramics Now Magazine Issue 21 (July 2026), which features the work of Nancy Bowen on the cover, shown in her exhibition From A to Z and the Bodies In Between at Nunu Fine Art, New York. Working like an artist-archaeologist, Bowen combines found materials, ceramics, ornament, and archival texts to reimagine language, history, and the female body.

Hello! This is Vasi Hirdo, the founding editor of Ceramics Now. I hope you are doing well today 👋 Published in print and digital editions at the end of the year, Ceramics Now Annual will feature at least 20 artists selected through an international open call and will continue as a yearly editorial project. The digital edition will be free to read, giving selected artists broad international visibility.

Hello! Welcome to the 106th edition of Ceramics Now Weekly. This is Vasi Hirdo, the founding editor of Ceramics Now. I hope you are doing well today 👋 Let’s see what’s new. By Olivia Fero What if the vessel-versus-sculpture debate that has preoccupied contemporary ceramics is not merely unresolved, but unanswerable? Not a genuine question at all, but a category mistake: the philosophical error of treating one kind of thing as if it were another.

Hello! This is Vasi Hirdo, the founding editor of Ceramics Now. I hope you are doing well today 👋 We are delighted to announce the release of Ceramics Now Magazine Issue 20 (June 2026), which features the work of Eva Zethraeus on the cover. Working primarily in porcelain, Zethraeus creates intricate biomorphic sculptures shaped by nature, growth, and transformation, where repetition and variation suggest organic systems in constant change.

Ceramics Now Weekly #105 features a review and conversation with Miquel Barceló, essays on The Forgotten Man exhibition and the revival of a forgotten glaze recipe, plus this week's ceramics news. Hello! Welcome to the 105th edition of Ceramics Now Weekly. This is Vasi Hirdo, the founding editor of Ceramics Now. I hope you are doing well today 👋 Before we begin, I’d like to highlight the May 2026 issue of Ceramics Now Magazine, which features the work of Daniela Bergschneider on the cover.

Hello! This is Vasi Hirdo, the founding editor of Ceramics Now. I hope you are doing well today 👋 We are delighted to announce the release of Ceramics Now Magazine Issue 19 (May 2026), featuring the work of Daniela Bergschneider on the cover. Combining porcelain and hand-dyed textiles, Bergschneider’s works suggest living structures in which hard and soft materials evoke bones, skin, breath, and tactile sensation.

Works by John Ward for sale at auction with Maak This May, Maak presents Contemporary Ceramics + Craft, a curated sale bringing together leading names in studio ceramics alongside important makers working in wood, glass, fibre and silver. As Maak celebrates 15 years of dedicated auctions, the sale offers an opportunity to reflect on the significance of the handmade in an increasingly digital world.

Hello! Welcome to the 104th edition of Ceramics Now Weekly. This is Vasi Hirdo, the founding editor of Ceramics Now. I hope you are doing well today 👋 Let’s see what’s new. By Marthe Yung Mee Hansen Nina Malterud has dedicated more than five decades to ceramics and crafts.