Celebrating Ceramics

2 Events - 1 Admission - 1 Fabulous Venue

11-13 July 2025

Waterperry Gardens, near Wheatley, Oxford OX33 1LA

Presented by Craft In Focus and Waterperry Gardens


Event plan 2025 marquee layout

Celebrating Ceramics is an artist led event, showcasing the very best in the world of contemporary ceramics set against the backdrop of Waterperry House and Gardens.

Embrace the opportunity to meet, engage with and purchase from 140 diverse ceramic exhibitors some of whom will be demonstrating on their stands to give visitors an insight into the skills involved in working with clay.

Celebrating Ceramics will be held alongside a Desire Jewellery & Silversmithing Fair featuring a diverse selection of contemporary UK jewellers and silversmiths and one ticket gives admission to both events.

Desire Exhibitors



There will also be an amazing range of food, drink and live music across two music stages to complement your day.

The events are organised by Craft In Focus in partnership with Waterperry Gardens.  Craft In Focus have been staging contemporary mixed discipline craft events for 25 years. Part of the organising team includes the curator of the ceramics section of Art in Action for 26 years who has a real passion for ceramics and wanted to keep the festival ethos of Art In Action at the heart of Celebrating Ceramics.




Demonstrators 2025

Exhibitors who are shown in the listings with this icon will be demonstrating on their stands at various times of the day throughout the event.

There will also be a Wheel Demonstration & Workshop by Princess Fingall, who will be demonstrating techniques involved in creating pottery on a wheel as well as offering tips and guidance. Some of her work will also be for sale.

Clay Time will present a Raku Demonstration showing a variety of raku techniques.

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FREE Demonstrations, Talks & Insider Tours 2019

All Events are Free to attend. No need to book – just turn up.

2020 information to be published here shortly

Demonstrations take place in the demonstration marquee, apart from the raku and obvara firings which take place in the raku demonstration area - allow approx 45 minutes.

Talks take place inside Waterperry House - allow approx 45 minutes.

Insider Tours of the event (a potter’s viewpoint) start from the porch of Waterperry House and last around 30 minutes. Your guide will visit seven makers on each tour to share their insights and experiences.

Please see the summarised daily timetable here. For further details click here.

  


Overview of the event with a hint of what to expect from The Desire Jewellery & Silversmithing Fair

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Important Information Regarding Your Visit

We want visitors, staff and exhibitors to feel comfortable during our events. We therefore have some small requests which mean you can enjoy your time at our events.

  • Advance booking is required to allow us to monitor numbers - tickets are timed for entry, but once in you may stay as long as you wish
  • Visitors will be asked to follow the one-way system in the marquees