I make sculptural and functional pottery rooted in drawing and mark-making to explore the subconscious and human condition. My work delves into acts of repetition, rule-making, and pushing the clay’s boundaries while allowing it to guide my process. I blend thrown, slab, pinch, and coiled techniques to create a unique visual language, embracing mistakes and breakages, cutting up and mapping out new possibilities for the pieces.
I completed my degree in Textile Design at Chelsea College of Art in 2017 where I first had the opportunity to experiment with ceramics. Driven to deepen my technical knowledge I started taking regular classes in 2022. Ceramics has since become an important part of my life, working as a ceramic technician and tutor at Community Clay Studio, as well as creating from my studio in Manchester.
Clay as a material and practice enables our human need for slowness, sustainability and connectedness with the ground. I believe it to be a catalyst for healing, creating space for discussion while challenging the status quo of the modern world.
For all enquriries please contact me at florriemay@hotmail.co.uk
Exhibitions, Fairs, Workshops + Projects
2026
~Manchester Ceramics Fair, The Whitworth, Manchester
2025
~Stockport Ceramics Fair, Stockroom, Stockport
~The Big Pot Shop, PINK, Stockport
~Platt Fields Art Market, Manchester
~Mug Exhibition, Community Clay Studio, Stretford
~Four-Fold Reverie, Pippa Eason, PINK, Stockport
~Manchester Ceramics Fair, The Whitworth, Manchester
2024
~TERRA (RE) FORMA, PINK, Stockport
~Boob Mug Workshop, 7 Spot Pottery, Salford
2023
~Political Stitch, Manchester
~Woven Cusion, Mustard Tree, Manchester
2022
~Pride Bunting Installation, Renew Hub, Manchester
2021
~Aprons for Open Kitchen, People’s History Museum, Manchester
2019
~Landscape Drawing Workshop, Friends of Carrington Moss, Carrington Moss
~Pin Badge Design for Friends of Carrington Moss, Manchester
~Occupying Parliament Square with Extinction Rebellion, London
~Banner Making Workshops, Extinction Rebellion, Manchester
~Knitted Textiles Installation, Save Ryebank Fields, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester
2018
~Banner Making Workshop, Global Justice Now, Manchester
2017
~Protect, Chelsea College of Arts, London
~Reimagining Xiabu, China Design Centre, London
2016
~Reimagining Xiabu, Chongqing, China
~Adhoc, Chelsea College of Arts, London
~Red Lines, Première Vision, Paris
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