Sculpture in Clay: British Ceramics 1985 to Now at the V&A

Focusing on the work of British artists from the mid-1980s to the present, Sculpture in Clay: British Ceramics 1985 to Now explores how clay – fired or unfired – has become an essential and dynamic medium for sculpture and installation art. It reveals how clay and ceramic have expanded the possibilities of sculpture, presenting clay as a potentially radical and avant-garde medium. Unfolding across four chrono-thematic sections and supported by the voices of the artists themselves, the exhibition examines how artists have reinterpreted, subverted and challenged conventional ceramic practice. Major installations sit alongside individual pieces by leading figures including Jacqueline Poncelet, Antony Gormley, Edmund de Waal, Richard Deacon and Clare Twomey.