The Leach Pottery are excited to present ‘Lisa Hammond: Soda Alchemy’, their first solo exhibition of Lisa’s highly celebrated work. Lisa Hammond MBE is an internationally recognised potter renowned for strong energetic forms, soda glazes, shino firings, and for creating striking and unique individual pieces alongside beautiful tableware for day-to-day use.

For this exhibition, Lisa has created a range of personal works, including Moon Jars, Iga Vases, Paddled Bottle Vases and Yunomis, alongside personal tableware and a selection of Maze Hill Pottery tableware. Lisa’s high temperature soda glazed ware is raw glazed with slip to create rich colour and texture.

Lisa works at Maze Hill Pottery in Greenwich, London, which she established in 1994 in a disused railway ticket office. Here she has developed a range of soda fired tableware designed for everyday use, each piece’s glaze suggestive of the vigorous soda firing process. In recent years she has developed a range of work called Soda Shino, inspired by Japanese Mino ware pottery.

Lisa is recognised for her commitment to training and advocacy having personally trained and funded over a dozen full-time apprentices in her almost 40-year career, with Yo Thom, Adam Frew, Darren Ellis and Florian Gadsby amongst its alumni.

Lisa is the Founder and Chair of Adopt A Potter Limited, a charitable trust established in 2009 to help fund apprentices to work with master potters. The trust went on to establish Clay College Stoke in 2017, which offers a full-time Diploma Course, designed to teach a new generation of studio potters the skills they need to establish themselves as professional makers.

Lisa was awarded an MBE in 2016 for services to Ceramics and Preservation of Craft Skills, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Craft Potters Association – “a lifetime achievement award bestowed on those makers whose contribution to the CPA and/or influence on British studio ceramics has been truly outstanding over the course of a long and distinguished career.”

Lisa’s pots are represented in galleries, museums and private collections worldwide.

The exhibition runs in the Leach Pottery Entrance Gallery.
All works for sale.