About
Heather Gibson is a London-based ceramic artist whose practice explores trace, memory, and mark-making through the material language of clay. In 2024, she completed a Master’s degree at the Royal College of Art, supported by the Marit Rausing Scholarship for Ceramics & Glass. That same year, she was the inaugural Potter in Residence at County Hall Pottery, culminating in her first solo exhibition, Surfacing (2025). Her work has been exhibited in multiple group exhibitions, including Thrown, The Leach Pottery, and Collect Art Fair (2026).
Gibson’s work draws on geology, archaeology, and abstract expressionism, investigating how materials hold and reveal layers of experience. Working intuitively, she strikes, carves, and imprints clay using found objects, allowing forms to emerge through process rather than predetermined design. Her hand-built pieces exist between function and abstraction.. Through layered slips, oxides, and glazes, and the unpredictability of gas reduction firing, her work embraces chance and reveals the true nature of clay and its ability to give something back.
