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The Leach Pottery: One & All

Online: 24 November - 21 December 2025

The Leach Pottery: One & All celebrates creativity across today’s Leach Pottery. The exhibition features individual potters from the Studio, and colleagues working at the wider Leach Pottery, including freelance tutors. The eclectic selection of pots speak of our creative diversity and love of clay.

Past Exhibitions

2025

• Students Over a Century: Roots and Branches, 20 July 2024 - 5 October 2025: Cube Gallery

• Muchelney Pottery: 60 Years Strong, 21 June - 20 July 2025: Shop Gallery

• Mark Griffiths: Half a Century – Full of Craft, 5 April - 6 July 2025: Entrance Gallery

• Matthew Foster: A Mashiko Residency, 15 February - 30 March 2025: Entrance Gallery

2024

• Leach Studio: A Potter’s Challenge, 14 September - 28 December 2024: Entrance Gallery

• John Bedding: 60 Years On, 25 May - 8 September 2024: Entrance Gallery

• Ellie Woods: An Apprenticeship, 20 July - 18 August 2024: Shop Gallery

• Leach Pottery: First Students, 6 May 2023 - 30 June 2024: Cube Gallery

• Colour & Movement, 9 February - 19 May 2024: Entrance Gallery

2023

• Clive Bowen at 80, 21 September - 30 December 2023: Entrance Gallery

• Roelof Uys: From Mashiko to St Ives, 21 September - 8 October 2023: Shop Gallery

• Niek Hoogland: Best of Both Worlds, 5 - 13 August 2023: Shop Gallery

• Lisa Hammond: Soda Alchemy, 8 July - 17 September 2023: Entrance Gallery

• Isatu Hyde: Beauty Rooted in Use, 6 May - 2 July 2023: Entrance Gallery

• Lou Tonkin: Sketches & Prints, 6 May - 4 June 2023: Museum Installation

• Doug Fitch & Hannah McAndrew: An Ongoing Devotion, 25 February - 30 April 2023: Entrance Gallery

• Michael Leach, October 2022 - 16 April 2023: Cube Gallery

2022

• Studio_Space, July to December 2022: Entrance Gallery

• Helen Doherty: Encountering St Ives, August to September 2022

• People & Pottery - stories from our community, April to October 2022: Cube Gallery

• Tomoo Hamada: Pots from St Ives, 2 to 31 July 2022

• John Webb: 100 Pots, April to July 2022: Entrance Gallery

• Clay & Community, November 2021 to March 2022: Cube Gallery

2021

• Hyosun Kim ‘Journey of a Moon Jar’, November to December 2021

• Leach 100 Commission Artists, November to December 2021

• 100 Years of Leach and Hamada Influence, December to February 2021

• John Leach 65 Years a Potter, July to September 2021

2020

• Annabelle Smith: An Apprenticeship, 9 November - 18 December: Online

• Century of Connections, 9 September - 4 November: Cube Gallery

• Leach Studio Potters: 100 Years On, 15 February - 12 July: Entrance Gallery & Online

• Kat Wheeler, 1 November 2019 - 8 February 2020: Entrance Gallery

• Surface, 4 May 2019 - 8 March 2020: Cube Gallery

2019

• Peter Rose: Soda Fired, 11 October - 9 November 2019: Shop Gallery

• Michel Francois & Young Gi Seo: Cornwall to Korea, 17 August - 27 October 2019: Entrance Gallery

• Callum Trudgeon: Japan & Denmark - Wood Fired Pots, 17 August - 29 September 2019: Shop Gallery

• Andile Dyalvane: Our Cultures In Constant Collaboration, 29 June - 11 August 2019: Entrance Gallery

• Potters From Japan, 2 March - 19 May 2019: Entrance Gallery

• Celebrating 10 Years, 24 March 2018 - 23 April 2019: Cube Gallery

• Shoji Hamada: 40 Years On, 8 December 2018 - 24 February 2019: Entrance Gallery

2018

• Clementina van der Walt: Solo Show, 13 October - 2 December 2018: Entrance Gallery

• Matthew Foster: An Apprenticeship, 13 October - 2 December 2018: Shop

• Roelof Uys: Works Of Function, Works Of Art, 7 July - 7 October 2018: Entrance Gallery

• Leach Pottery Studio: 10 Years On, 7 July - 9 September 2018: Shop

• Reunion: Potters From The Time Of Bernard Leach, 24 March - 1 July 2018: Entrance Gallery

• The Teabowl: Past & Present, 9 September 2017 - 11 March 2018: Cube Gallery

• Teachers’ Pots: Celebrating The Work Of Our Education Team, 4 November - January 2018: Entrance Gallery

2017

• Carson Culp: A Year at the Leach, 17 November - 1 December 2017: Shop Gallery

• Jim Malone: New Pots from the Kiln, 9 September - 29 October 2017: Entrance Gallery

• Potter's Prize Draw Exhibition, 15 - 22 September 2017

• Clay in Practice: The Leach Studio, 17 June - 3 September 2017: Entrance Gallery

• Clay: That Continuous Material, 25 March - 27 August 2017: Cube Gallery

• Callum Trudgeon: An Apprenticeship, 17 June - 30 July 2017

• Japanese Connections, 25 March - 11 June 2017: Entrance Gallery

  Plymouth in Practice: Tutors, 21 January - 12 March 2017: Cube Gallery

• Plymouth in Practice: Alumni & Students, 21 January - 19 March 2017: Entrance Gallery

2016

• Fire it Up, 5 November 2016 - January 2017

• Amanda Brier, 10 September - 30 October 2016

• David & Margaret Frith, 9 July - 4 September 2016

• Leach Heritage

• David Leach: Industrial Devils and Standard Ware, 13 September 2015 - 6 March 2016: Cube Gallery

• Jeff Oestreich & Pat Burns, 15 - 30 October 2016

2015

• Doug Fitch & Hannah McAndrew: A Love Affair with Clay, 28 November 2015 - 16 January 2016

• Kat Wheeler: A Leach Potter in Japan, 6 November 2015 - 30 March 2016

• Joanna Wason, 28 March - 23 May 2015

• Mark Griffiths, 30 May - 11 July 2015: Entrance Gallery

• Emmanuel Cooper: Connections & Contrasts, 13 June - 6 September 2015: Cube Gallery

• Glaze Alchemy, 18 July - 6 September 2015: Entrance Gallery

• Robin Welch, 12 September - 22 November 2015: Entrance Gallery

2014

• From the Studio, 13 December 2014 - 31 January 2015: Entrance Gallery

2013

• Warren MacKenzie: An American Potter, 21 September -2 November 2013

• Leach Legacy, 19 March - 8 May 2013: Entrance Gallery

• Bernard Leach: Artist: Cube Gallery

Past Off-Site Exhibitions

Exhibitions about the Leach Pottery in other locations.

• The Leach Pottery: Living The Legacy, Thrown at Highgate Contemporary, London. 7 September - 3 October 2018

• Illustrations of the Leach Pottery St Ives, 2012-2018, by Hilary Jean Gibson, Porthmeor Studios, St Ives. 27 August - 12 September 2018

• The Leach Pottery: The Sound of it, Craft Study Centre. 3 January - 9 December 2017

• That Continuous Thing: Artists and the Ceramics Studio 1920 - Today, Tate St Ives. 31 March- 3 September 2017