Fresh 2021 – Call for Artists
27 May 2021
Deadline: June 16, 2021British Ceramics Biennial are delighted to announce applications for Fresh 2021 are now open.
What is Fresh?
The Fresh exhibition celebrates and promotes emerging talent in contemporary British ceramics. Fresh 2021 will provide a new platform for artists to inspire and challenge, bringing focus to the rich and diverse learning opportunities, which are shaping ceramics today.
Fresh is an exhibition that platforms a cross-section of emerging talent, celebrating artistic discovery, which shows the courage of new beginnings. Fresh 2021 seeks to represent artists coming from a variety of learning experiences – from community workshops to degree programmes, apprenticeships and more.
Fresh invites applications from early career, UK-based individual practitioners or collaborators who use clay as their primary creative material. Applicants must have been practicing between 3 – 7 years including time in education/learning and be able to show a continued engagement in practice. Full details on eligibility can be found in the Application Guidelines on the website.
Twenty-five exhibitors will be selected by a panel composed of artists, makers, educators and learning designers. Fresh will be situated in the China Hall on the former Spode factory site as part of the British Ceramics Biennial festival programme of exhibitions, projects, and engagement.