Alice is a potter living and working from SE London. She graduated with a diploma from Clay College in Stoke on Trent in 2024. Since then, she has become a member of Dockyard Ceramics, a shared pottery studio in Woolwich Dockyard and teaches pottery skills classes from many London studios including, Maze Hill, Studio Pottery London and County Hall Pottery alongside production pottery work and artist fabrication.
Her work is guided by traditional wheel throwing techniques and practise of playing at the wheel. She aims to retain the immediacy and rhythm of these making processes in her work. Alice currently makes work in small batches to fire in wood kilns where salt and soda are added at high temperatures, leaving her pots with a rich and weathered surface. She works with slips and raw glazing, sometimes using a small palette of glazes on the inside of my pieces. Alice enjoys the thoughtful and often slow process of packing the kiln and the long day of stoking the firebox. Each piece comes out with a unique character - depending on where it was placed in the kiln which is what particularly draws her to this process. Function is a key aspect of her work - augmenting daily life with beautiful and unique objects