I am a freelance potter, artist and educator. I often work with arts organisations and community centres to deliver clay workshops rooted in themes of heritage and place. I am driven to bring people together through clay and pass on craft skills.

The purpose of my Fellowship is to visit community ceramic workshops in the USA that use clay to enact meaningful social change, and learn about mobile pottery projects and sustainable models for wood-firing. I plan to bring this knowledge back to set up a mobile clay project that can travel to centres without pottery facilities.

Having experienced the many benefits of clay, such as social connection, creative confidence, learning new skills and helping with mental health, I believe ceramics should be accessible to everyone. This research will allow me to explore the many models and best practices for making this possible.