International Ceramics Festival Archive

These exciting festivals began in 1987 at their present site in Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Mid Wales. Each festival is organised jointly by North Wales Potters, South Wales Potters and Aberystwyth Arts Centre and over the years has increased in popularity to become the country's leading ceramics event.

The past festivals have featured some of the world's leading potters and ceramic artists and played host to some of the most interesting traditional potters from many countries.

• Daniel Allen (Wales)
• Tom Barnett (UK)
  
• Sandy Brown (UK)
  
• Jack Doherty (UK)
  
• Jean Nicolas Gerard (France)
  
• Peter Hayes (UK)
  
• Regina Heinz (UK)
  
• Nina Hole (Denmark)
  
• Shozo Michikawa (Japan)
  
• Don Reitz (USA)
  
• Jeff Shapiro (USA)
• Masakazu Kusakabe (Japan)
• Edith Garcia (UK)
• Zhao Hua Long, Zhao Hua Yang and Ning Fa You - Jingdezhen Potters

• Richard Dewar
• Bill Van Gilder
  
• Laurie Spencer
  
• Clive Bowen
  
• Yoshida Akira
  
• Françoise Dufayard
  
• Neik Hoogland
  
• Carole Windham
  
• Angélica Vásquez Cruz
  
• Antal Pazmandi
  
• Sabiha Ayari
  
• Ruth Duckworth
  
• Pannaliapan

• Veronique Bambigbola & Angeline Houtchonou (West Africa)
• Svend Bayer (UK)
• Hans and Birgitte Borjeson (Denmark)
• Nic Collins (UK)
• Wilma Cruise (South Africa)
• Claire Curneen (UK)
• Janet DeBoos (Australia)
• John Gill (USA)
• Ian Gregory (UK)
• Wali Hawes (India/Japan)
• Oliver Kent (UK)
• Peter Lange (New Zealand
• Ken Matsuzaki (Japan)
• Carol McNicoll (UK)
• Steve Mills (UK)
• Laura O Hagan (Ireland)
• Gustavo Perez (Mexico)
• Henry Pim (Ireland)

• Billy Adams (Eire)
• Jeroen Bechtold (Holland)
• Simon Carroll (UK)
• Katerina Evangelidou (Greece)
• Joe Finch (Wales)
• Mehmet Gursoy (Turkey)
• Robert Harrison (USA)
• Jane Jermyn (Eire)
• Tavs Jorgensen (Denmark)
• Walter Keeler (UK)
• Wendy Lawrence (Wales)
• Sandy Lockwood (Australia)
• Martin Lungley (UK)
• Warren MacKenzie (USA)
• Udai Lal Kuhmar (India)
• Jane Perryman (UK)
• The MC was Jim Robison.
  Exhibitions included 'CC4 Ceramic Contempories'.

• Atilla Albert (Hungary)
• David Binns (Wales)
• Jerry Caplan (USA)
• Xiang Kaku Hayashi (Japan)
• Christy Keeney (Ireland)
• Jolante Kvastye (Lithuania)
• Janet Mansfield (Australia)
• David Miller (France)
• Jabu Nala (South Africa)
• Svein Narum (Norway)
• Frederick Olsen (USA)
• Elisabeth Le Retif (Brittany)
• John Theis (USA)
• 'Wonderboy' Thokozani Nxumalo (South Africa)
• Graham Hay (Australia)
• Fee Halsted-Berning (South Africa)
• Victoria and Michael Eden (UK)
• Liz Ouackenbush (USA)
• Mandy MacKintosh (Scotland)
• The MC was Jim Robison and the festival was opened by Garth Clark (USA).
  The exhibitions included "The Snake in the Garden" - contemporary slipware.

• Alan Watt (Australia)
• Mikang Lim and Kang Hyo Lee (Korea)
• Dainis Pundurs (Latvia)
• Malgorzata Kujawska (Poland)
• Stephanie Roberts and Phil Rogers (Wales)
• Peter Beard, Eddie Daughton, Mick Casson and Helen Smith (UK)
• Robert Sanderson and Coll Minogue (Scotland)
• Paolo Staccioli (Italy)
• Cathi Jefferson (Canada)
• Vilma Henkelman (Holland)
• The MC was Jim Robison and the festival was officially opened by Ray Finch.
  The exhibitions included 'Y Gath Wedi Sgrapo Joni Bach / The Cat Scrathed Little Johnny' - contemporary ceramics from Wales.

• Anna Zamorska (Poland)
• Sandor Kecskemeti (Hungary)
• Miroslav Paral (Czech Republic)
• Janos Probstner (Hungary)
• Nina Hole (Denmark)
• Micki Schloessingk and Paul Stubbs (UK)
• Martin Mindermann (Germany)
• Ray Rogers (Australia)
• Jeff Oestreich (USA)
• David and Margaret Frith (Wales)
• Ian Gregory (UK)
• Sue Halls (UK)
• Rina Kimche (Israel)
• Maxine O'Reilly (UK)
• The M.C. was Jim Robison.
  The exhibitions included 'Ceramics from the International Ceramics Studio, Kecskemet, Hungary'.

1995

• Yang Qinfang & Zhou Dingfang (China)
• Peteris Martinsons, (Latvia)
• John Glick (USA)
• Suzy Atkins (France)
• Yasuo Hayashi (Japan)
• Andrew McGarva (UK/France)
• Joe Finch & Gwen Heeney (Wales)
• Trupti Patel (UK/India)
• Geoff Crispin (Australia)
• Steve Mills (UK)
• The MC was Jim Robison.
  Exhibitions included 'Teapots from Yixing, China'.

1993

• Vaclav Serak (Czech Republic)
• John Pollex (UK)
• Brian Gartside & Christine Boswijck (New Zealand)
• Mark Pharis & Anabeth Rosen (USA)
• Tulla Elieson (Norway)
• Iain Barber (Eire)
• Morgen Hall (Wales)
• Gabrielle Koch (Germany/UK)
• Betty Woodman and Scott Chamberlain (USA)
• The MC was Greg Daly (Australia). Exhibitions included 'Contemporary American Domestic Pottery'.

1991

• Ryoji Koie & Katsue Ibata (Japan)
• Benthe Hanssen (Denmark)
• Mo Jupp (UK)
• Jeff Mincham (Australia)
• Claudi Casanovas (Spain)
• Bronwen Williams-Ellis (Wales)
• Nigel Wood (UK)
• Takashi Yasuda (Japan/UK)
• Dave Cohen (USA/Scotland)
• Patrick Sargent (Switzerland)
• Gerhild Tschachler-Nagy (Austria)
• The MC was Michael Casson.
  Exhibitions included 'Japanese Tableware'.

1989

• Aage Birck (Denmark)
• Heidi Birck (Denmark)
• Vladimir Tsivin (Russia)
• Sebastian Blackie (UK)
• Scott Chamberlain (USA)
• Frank Hamer (UK)
• Archie McCall (Scotland)
• Asabe Magaji & Assibi Iddo (Nigeria)
• Gus Mabelson (UK)
• Claude Varlan & Charles Hair (France)
• Jim Robison (UK/USA)
• Karen Hessenberg (UK)
• Gillian Still (Wales)
• The MC was Michael Casson.
  Exhibitions included 'Nigerian Pottery'.

1987

• Paul Soldner (USA)
• Rimas Visgirda (Lithuania/USA),
• Ulla Viotti (Sweden),
• Cormac Boydell (Eire)
• Arne Ase (Norway)
• John Chalke (Canada)
• Barbara Tipton (USA)
• Greg Daly (Australia)
• Siddig el Nigoumi (Sudan)
• Ollie Kent (UK)
• Steen Kepp (Denmark)
• Jim Robison (UK)
• Anne Lightwood (Scotland)
• The MC was Peter Starkey (UK). Exhibitions included 'Paul Soldner'.