Heather Gibson is a London based ceramicist. She completed her Master’s at the Royal College of Art in 2024, where she was awarded the Marit Rausing Scholarship for Ceramics & Glass. She is the inaugural Potter in Residence at County Hall Pottery, preparing for her first solo exhibition Surfacing in August 2025. 

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Heather Gibson’s ceramics explore the threshold between art and the everyday object. Her making process is made through combination of sculptural hand-building, gestural mark-making and glaze alchemy – utilising both electric, gas and wood reduction firing techniques.

 

Through her process she uses clay as a canvas to explore trace, time, memory and mark-making. Drawing inspiration from geology, archaeology and abstract expressionism, her ceramics serve as portals into the intricate topographies of human memory, and unseen landscapes concealed beneath the Earth’s surface.

 

Often beginning by striking, carving and faceting a block or a thick slab of clay, found objects such as old tools, driftwood and broken pottery are used to create unique surfaces. A careful alchemy of slips, oxides and glazes are applied, often poured across the surface. Through this method she invites risk into her work, encouraging the true nature of clay and its ability to give something back - something beyond our control.

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