Exhibition at Mill Yard Studio Gallery
2nd May - 24th June 2026
Clink Street Ceramics is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work at Mill Yard Studio Gallery, in Matlock, Derbyshire, in Spring 2026.
Work is currently underway to produce a new series of ceramic art especially for the exhibition. The work will explore the history and culture of Cromford Mill, the world’s first water powered cotton spinning mill and developed by Richard Arkwright in 1771.
The ceramic pieces will feature transferred 35mm film photography of the architecture and surrounding area, as well as hand drawn sketches and archive materials exploring the industrial processes, and life in the mills.
Further announcements to follow.
EXHIBITON: DRY CLEANING
16-24 August 2025
Max Radford Gallery in collaboration with Clink Street Ceramics present a new exhibition of work by 53 artists, hosted in a large warehouse space next to Borough Market.
Clink Street Ceramics are presenting their latest 3 series of work; NORTH CIRCULAR, RAVE CULTURE THEORY, and STREET DREAMS.
"Our first show involved an open call, and having worked with a smaller roster of designers and artists since then, it felt like the right time to do a show that represented a bit of a 'scene check'," founder Max Radford told Dezeen.
"I knew how much things had progressed in the past few years in London and was keen to do a show that represented that wider world and brought it together at the same time."
Max Radford Gallery didn't give the contributors – 53 in total, chosen from almost 300 applications – any brief for what type of design to create.
"We never want to be prescriptive in our briefing with who we work with, we want to show what you want to show," Radford said.
The resulting exhibition juxtaposed different types of design inside Clink Street Ceramics' large warehouse space next to London's Borough Market.
The involvement of Clink Street Ceramics, a London pottery studio that also puts on ceramic art displays, opened up Max Radford Gallery to a design niche that the gallery hasn't covered as much in the past.
"Clink Street provided the location as part of their historic family business as Borough Greengrocers. They also, of course, brought a ceramic edge that we haven't really explored before," Radford explained.
"We received a lot of applications of ceramic work, and it really opened up a world of works that I love."
The pieces on show included a room divider made by artist Anouska Samms from leather, human hair and velvet, and Alex Whitfield's Devil Lamp made from polished stainless steel and cast resin.
Designer Adam Maryniak's humorous piece Landlords Special Chair looked comically uncomfortable, while artist Gus Langford's Aubade - Vessel 3, made from recycled leather with lambswool stuffing, made people stoop and look closer.
Also on show was a painting by artist Charlie Burtenshaw – one of Radford's favourites.
Radford named the show Dry Cleaning because he's "obsessed with the graphics of old London laundrettes and wanted to use that as inspiration for a show".
"In this case the name held some resonance about how the show is airing the fresh new works of London's emerging designers and artists whilst also presenting existing works in a fresh context," he added.
He hopes that shows such as these, in which anyone can take part, can also help support designers and give them more visibility.
"… the show has brought together London's Emerging designers in one space, allowing people to build real future-forward and supportive relationships within their industry. Cultivating this new and sharing culture is important to me."
The artists represented in the exhibiton include: Karlina Mezecka, Alex Whitfield, Celine d'Oultrem-ont, Anouska Samms, Andreas Larsson, Martin Schnabl, Domhnall Nolan, Emma Clarke, Charlie Burtenshaw, David Horan, Andi Qing, Abid Javed, Clink Street Ceramics, Odd Matter, Elliott Denny, Chai Dienn, Adam Maryniak, Gus Langford, Thi-sisbyron, Valeria Montero, Unu Sohn, David Coo-per, Tessa Silva, George Richardson, Josef Stöger, Jesse Butterfield, Sihyun Park, Jane Wright, Calum Stevens, Harry Grundy, Toby Mardles, Matthew Verdon, Nicolas Pauwels, Luke Macmahon, George Hinks, Studio B.C. Joshua, Jaclyn Pappalardo, Holly Hooper, All Ears, Natalia Triantafylli, Andrew Pierce Scott, Isabel Alonso, Mo Tong Yang, Justyna Szy-manska, Eddie Olin, Eduard Barniol, Nic Sander-son, Oliver Davidson, David Wilman, Victoria Loyola, Lottie Mac, Barnaby Lewis.
The exhibition photography is by Ed Rollitt
The Private View photography is by Clink Street Ceramics
New Clink Street Ceramics Series
August 2025
We are excited to present a new body of work titled North Circular.
This new series of ceramics explores The North Circular, a 25.7 mile ring road through an A-Z of London’s rotting industrial zones, former insane asylums, and toxic waste dumps. A walk through time as well as territory, to celebrate the sprawl of London, I walked this schizophrenic expressway documenting how it forgets its inhabitants, alienates its business, and confuses its drivers. Psychogeography creating a new category of boredom, one looks for meaning where there is none.
Each piece in our North Circular series includes on-location photography using a Leica Mini Zoom 35mm Film camera from 1993, scribbles, drawings, and notes, applied via ceramic in-glaze transfers.
The full series amounting to approximately 20 artworks will be on display at an upcoming exhibition presented by Max Radford Gallery in collaboration with Clink Street Ceramics. Details will be announced soon.
Display
STREET DREAMS by CLINK STREET CERAMICS
Our public display in Clink Street has been featured on Ceramic Review. This project, Street Dreams, aims to document and celebrate some of the everyday moments of skateboarding history through a series of ceramic artworks. Skateboarding saw significant changes during the 1980s and 90s, and this project focuses on skateboarding journalism during this vibrant and formative period. The ceramic pieces are all one-off artworks designed and made by studio potter James Sims. They are hand thrown from a variety of clay bodies and use geometric shapes inspired by the curves of skateparks and street ledges, rails, and steps. Through in depth research into 1980s and 90s skateboarding magazines, a series of ceramic transfers are used to celebrate these everyday moments often lost from documented skateboarding history.
Our display cabinet on Clink Street is seen by up to 70,000 people a day walking along the Thames Path. This space presents a programme of displays throughout the year that tell many stories of craft and making.
Exhibition
“GREYSCALE” at Max Radford Gallery
16th - 24h September 2023
Clink Street Ceramics is pleased to be exhibiting a selection of our “Clink Street ‘88” ceramic pieces at a new exhibition at Max Radord Gallery. The hand-thrown vessels explore an unlikely series of Acid House raves and parties in Clink Street that changed the face of youth culture in the UK.
‘Greyscale’ is the first show of a group of artists and designers that are new to Max Radford Gallery. For this show the Gallery has sought to look beyond the usual parameters of design and into the work of object-based creative practices. A group of fourteen creatives whom the Gallery has been following have been asked to contribute to the show.
The show features work from: Andrew Pierce Scott, Natalia Triantafylli, Victor Nyberg, Grace Prince, Tom Bull, Gillies Adamson Semple, George Richardson, Georgia Merritt, LS GOMMA, Ty Locke, Sofia Bordin, Louie Isaaman-Jones, Fred Thomson and Clink Street Ceramics.
Max Radford Gallery has always sought to exhibit works that experiment with the parameters of design, alongside a continuous examination of the fine art world within London. Its suggestion of design objects and domestic space-based narratives has driven a need to show works from both art and design within the same space.
The title Greyscale, alludes to a series of tones ranging from black to white that encompasses the Gallery's approach to the fields of art and design; they can become a spectrum that can be navigated and explored as one volume. This approach can also be applied to a single practice where one's creative realisations can register in both fields, neither being mutually exclusive.
Max Radford Gallery is keen to show a product-focused design world where adjacent areas of creativity can be ignored or othered, despite its broader impact on design.
The Gallery seeks to reveal areas of design to an arts world that may have resigned it to merely clever solutions.
Max Radford Gallery will continue to work within these grey areas and looks forward to bringing further multidisciplinary shows to London in the future.
Photos credit: Teo Della Torre
