CPCT Trustees

The Craft Pottery Charitable Trust

The Craft Pottery Charitable Trust (CPCT) was set up in 1991 under Emmanuel Cooper’s Chairmanship of the CPA to support educational activities associated with ceramic activity, in all its variety, across the UK.  For over two decades potters and ceramicists ranging from recent graduates beginning their careers to Fellows of the CPA with many years’ experience, have benefited from the Annual Ceramics Grant scheme initiated and administrated by the CPCT.

The funds to support this particular scheme over the years have been raised through Tombolas and personal bequests.
More recently, further CPA educational activities have been assisted with funds awarded to the CPCT by the Headley Trust and the Hargreaves and Ball Trust.

The CPCT remains continuously grateful for the support of all those working in clay who have generously donated work over the years to enable the raising of funds through tombolas and auctions.

CPCT Trustees

Felicity Aylieff

Felicity Aylieff

Acting head of Ceramics and Glass at the Royal College of Art, Felicity is recognised for her research into large-scale ceramics. Working from her studio in Bath for more than three decades, she has recently developed a collaborative relationship with factories in Jingdezhen, China, where she makes monumental pots.
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Kyra Cane

Kyra Cane

Kyra is a successful potter who has also been a lecturer in ceramics and drawing since 1986. She was course leader of Harrow Ceramics at the University of Westminster from 2000 to 2009 and is an experienced external examiner.
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John Higgins

John Higgins

John is a CPA Fellow and President of the Dacorum and Chiltern Potters Guild. He has a BA from Wolverhampton College of Art, a PGCE in Art Education and was Assessor/Examiner for the Creative Studies Courses for the City and Guilds of London Institute. His work has been exhibited widely at International Biennale and competitions including Mino, Vallauris, and Faenza. John has demonstrated his techniques around the world, most recently at Aberystwyth and in 2014 on a three-month residency in Australia. For more information click here.

Chris Keenan

Chris Keenan

Chris began working with clay in his mid-thirties when he was apprenticed to the potter Edmund de Waal. He makes work for domestic spaces – pots to be used, handled and looked at. He is a CPA Fellow and teaches at West Dean College. His work is held in several public collections including the V&A and the Ashmolean Museum. Recently he was artist-in-residence at the Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art in Japan.
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Nigel Lambert

Nigel Lambert

Nigel has earned international recognition. His thrown and altered pots combine bold contemporary shapes, with his unique style of decoration and strong sense of function. He is is Co-Director of the Grange Barns Gallery.
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Clare Twomey

Clare Twomey

Clare is an artist and a research fellow at the University of Westminster who works with clay in large-scale installations, sculpture and site-specific works. Over the past 10 years she has exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate, Crafts Council, Museum of Modern Art Kyoto Japan, the Eden Project and the Royal Academy of Arts.
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