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A couple of years ago I took part in a tile workshop with the amazing Sarah Fraser, at Manchester Ceramics Collective. I made these tiles and sat on them for a good while deciding what to do with them. Eventually decided I'd make them into a table. A guy called Jimmy Vernon, who is a creative and brilliant crafts person built this table for me using reclaimed mahogany and oak, an old picture frame for the trim and a reclaimed cast iron pub table leg. I am blown away with his clever use of reclaim materials and the beauty he has created with my tiles inlaid in the wood. Probably not doing it justice with my rubbish photos but yes, I am one haaaappppy person right now.
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Such a lovely day yesterday! Big thank-you to @trackbrewingcotaproom and @stefan_trackbrewco and the team for letting us join you again! Thank-you to all the amazing makers and a special mention to @pomelobakes @fennells.co @sliceculture for keeping us fuelled all day. Thank-you to everyone who came along to support us and for making it such a great day! šŸ§” #ceramics #ceramicsale #manchestermakers #pottery #popup
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The next artist who will be joining us at our Pop-up at @trackbrewingcotaproom This Sunday 23rd August at @trackbrewingcotaproom is our @_sarah_fraser Sarah has a socially engaged practice that focuses on relationships between people and clay as a material within social, environmental, and political contexts. Sustainability and the imperative to reduce the ecological impact of ceramics is integral to all her work. Fraser is an Associate Artist with British Ceramics Biennial and works collaboratively on projects in Manchester and Stoke-on-Trent. Sarahā€™s practice is draws on storytelling, growing and architectural ceramic forms. #ceramicsale #popup #ceramics #pottery #manchestermakers
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A perfect weekend celebrating my 38th! ā¤ļø
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Community Profile - Sarah Fraser @_sarah_fraser šŸ§± Sarah Fraser is a ceramic artist whose practice centres around the collaborative efforts of people and communities, places and material, and how they come together to tell stories and shape the spaces around us. Fraserā€™s work typically makes use of reclaimed waste clay and explores how it can be transformed with energy and attention into a vehicle for expression and transformation. Her most recent completed project is Playscape, a large-scale interactive rammed earth artwork presented at the British Ceramics Biennial, 2025, for which she was the lead artist and producer. šŸ§± ā€œI have been working on the Spode Works site for over seven years now. It plays a vital role in the creative community in Stoke-on-Trent. The buildings and space echo with the hands and voices of the thousands of people who have worked here. The creative community on Spode, as well as the businesses that bring people here are vital for connecting to the living stories of the site to its past. Breathing freshness, friendship and positivity into the City. This is something that exists in spite of the crumbling buildings and needs to be valued. I have moved my studio here to Acava to be in this unique place where my creative community are, and I still pinch myself at how amazing it is to be working with clay at Spode.ā€ šŸ§±
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. Day 2 of our conference programme ā€˜Permanence/Impermanence: Collecting and archiving contemporary clay practicesā€™ is packed with talks by artists, curators, researchers, theorists, archivists and more. Please join us! see eventbrite for booking, link in bio >>
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We have some regular monthly sessions! First upā€¦ Olivia Azzopardi (@azzo_artist ) is going to be running monthly Saturday sessions to make Brownfield Bug Hotels and Clay Guardians for the Brilliant Bamboo Brownfield Parklet in Stoke (ST4). Come for one, come for them allā€¦come for it all, or just drop in. There will be brick-making, decorating and more unfolding during two hours, 11.30am ā€“ 1.30pm on: ****Saturday 20 June**** Future dates: Saturday 18 July Saturday 22 August Saturday 19 September Saturday 17 October Come in clothes you donā€™t mind getting messy. FREE ā€“ no need to book. More information on www.brilliantbamboo.co.uk/events Big thanks to @dovetailwoodworking for the brick moulds and @_sarah_fraser for the brick-making skills exchange and reclaimed clay processing. Thanks to @aceagrams , @tnlcommunityfund and @cfstaffordshire for the funding to support this part of our work for 2026.
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Weā€™re so excited to invite you to our Refugee Week celebration in Stoke-on-Trent! On Friday 12th June weā€™ll be hosting an exhibition at @acavaspodeworks of artworks made by our Stoke group, showing ceramics, textiles and photography. Thereā€™ll be food, drinks and music, so come along for a little dance! And if you canā€™t make the event on Friday 12th, the exhibition will be open from 12-4pm on the next day. Big thanks to our Stoke hub coordinator @ttmq___ and our guest facilitators @forij.co.uk and @_sarah_fraser who have helped us create these incredible artworks. Let us know if you can make it with a šŸ§” in the comments!
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After settling into her new studio space for the last few months, @_sarah_fraser will be opening the doors for a Studio Show & Open Studio @acavaspodeworks. Come and visit the studio, see new work in progress, and gain an insight into her current creative practice. The preview evening will be on Thursday 2 July, 6ā€“8pm, followed by an Open Studio on Saturday 4 July 2026, 11amā€“5pm, as part of the ACAVA Summer Open Studios programme. Theyā€™ll be light refreshments, samples and seconds sale, and clay activities to take part in.
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We are excited to be building up to Refugee Week in Stoke-on-Trent! šŸŗšŸ§” Our group has been working with @acavaspodeworks and @_sarah_fraser to make plates, bowls and other ceramics for our upcoming eventā€¦ But youā€™ll have to tune in veryyy soon to see what we have planned!
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Tonight @frances.savage.pots and @daniel_smyth_studio will be at @claystudiomcr for the final talk in their Friends of Clay Series, to mark Clay Studioā€™s 10th anniversary as a pottery studio. Previous talks in the series have featured our @rebeccamorrisceramics and @_sarah_fraser @claystudiomcr has played a very important role in our studioā€™s journey as this is how all of our original members met and where we made work from before going on the set up Manchester Ceramics Collective. Join us from 6:30pm for talks, demonstrations, refreshments and plenty of discussions about pots. ā€Ø #FriendsOfClay #ClayStudioManchester ClayTurns10
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In Stoke, our group has been working on an exciting project for the past couple of weeks! Together with @_sarah_fraser and @acavaspodeworks, weā€™ve been making tableware for our upcoming summer exhibition taking place during Refugee Week in June! In this first session, Sarah shared the basics of pottery, with some of us having a go at throwing on the wheel. The group decorated plates, choosing words like Awad (a gift), Free and Hope šŸ¤ Excited to share some of the plates, mugs and bowls that we made in the next sessionā€¦
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