Amanda Popham

Instantly recognisable, Amanda Popham’s bottles and vessels are the product of a lifetime’s devotion to drawing as a means of expressing an idea or emotion and to the tradition of ceramics itself. 

From the earliest years of her art career she has had an ever-widening circle of collectors for her idiosyncratic and fantastic pieces, having exhibited widely across the UK, famously in the 1990s at Liberty, London before winning the INAX prize, a pan European design award.

Amanda studied at a thrilling time for those working in the field of ceramics and studio pottery. Old rules were being broken and a drive for experimentation at every level gave Amanda and her contemporaries a buzz for pushing boundaries, letting their imaginations drive the work.

At the Royal College of Art, in London, Amanda Popham came into contact with a wealth of inspirational artists that increased the sense of what could be achieved. Eduardo Paolozzi was on the teaching staff alongside Jacqui Poncelet, Alison Britton and Glenys Barton, all were pioneers of the new spirit in ceramics and had recently graduated from the RCA themselves.

Amanda's reputation continues to grow as does her imagination and ability to surprise and delight her ever increasing audience with her mastery of her art and ability to convey emotions and sensibilities through her individual and enigmatic work.