As this year’s Great Pottery Throwdown concludes and Keith Brymer-Jones goes on to make pottery on Channel 4’s Our Welsh Chapel Dream, the national appetite for seductive art of ceramics continues to grow at a pace. TV has brought the alchemy of transforming raw clay to objects into living rooms and spawned a new wave of pottery studios, workshops and classes across the UK.

In 2023, Norfolk’s own Kenninghall Community Pottery opened its doors and has since built a vibrant community of potters from all walks of life that includes opticians, retail workers, nuclear scientists, entomologists, music agents, IT specialists, retirees, teachers and more. Led by ceramics tutor and technician Dawny Christien, the studio quickly became a membership studio, giving open access to its membership. The result has been a rapid development of skills, personal journeys in clay and quality of work.

Usually hidden behind the doors of the studio, the exhibition ‘Lit’ will bring the work of the potters’ and associates’ artworks off the shelves and into the beautiful early summer light coming through the soaring windows of Wymondham’s Becket’s Chapel on the town’s Church Street.

The free-to-access exhibition is open from 11am-4pm from Tuesday 19th-Sunday 24th May, and will be staffed by studio members and associates who can guide visitors through the works and talk in detail about the individual artists and techniques used.