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

~Humanos, Saan 1, Manchester

~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 Workshop7 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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