About - Sydney Ceramics Market

About us

Sydney Ceramics Market emerged from a desire to create a platform to celebrate the immense ingenuity and diversity in the craft of ceramics across NSW.

Held annually in October, our event showcases a range of exciting and dynamic clay-based creations, from striking sculptural pieces to functional tableware. It's a chance to meet, support and shop directly from a vibrant community of local ceramic artists, potters, and makers.

In celebrating the endless possibilities of clay, we also invite you to enjoy live wheel-throwing and hand-building demonstrations; pick up new ceramics tools, and local and international clays; as well as browsing ceramic-focused publications to inspire your own practice and learnings of this incredible medium.

The Founders & Producers

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Portrait of Melody Brunton and Samee Lapham at Sydney Ceramics Market, photo: Amy Piddington.

Melody (left), Samee (right)

We're friends and self-proclaimed ceramic obsessives, Melody Brunton (Ceramicist behind Emi Ceramics) and Samee Lapham (Photographer & Content Producer) — we met through a market ourselves and shared a vision to uplift, educate and create community around the medium of clay.

We were inspired to create Sydney Ceramics Market to present the wide range of makers' works we've fallen in love with and to encourage more people to collect pieces hand made by local creatives.

Our values

Community: Creating a platform for ceramic artists, and fostering relationships between makers, collectors and industry.

Creativity: Celebrating the potential of clay in all its wonderful forms, presenting a diversity in style, technique, experience and culture.

Education: Strengthening the awareness and appreciation of the handmade; assisting in the development of a deeper understanding of the craft of ceramics; impacting the viability of business for local ceramic artists.

The volunteer team

Sydney Ceramics Market would be nothing without our cohort of incredible volunteers, friends and family who you will see greeting you at the door and supporting the running of event days.

Since 2022, we have worked with over 100 wonderful volunteers eager to see this event exist as much as us.

If you'd like to join the team for the coming year, please send an email to hello@sydneyceramicsmarket.com and let us know!

We acknowledge the Gadigal People as the First Peoples and Traditional Custodians of the land on which we gather and hold our events. We pay deep respect to their Elders both past and present—and their enduring connection to this land, water, and sky. We also recognise the continuation of cultural, spiritual, and educational practices of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land.