About

Tina Vlassopulos was born in London in 1954. After graduating from Bristol Polytechnic in 1977, she returned to London to set up her studio.

Her work, which is in many public and private collections, has also won international awards, including the Sidney Myer Fund International Ceramic Award in 2006 and two at the World Ceramic Biennale Korea in 2009 and 2021.

An essay about her work is published in Contemporary British Studio Pottery, Forms of Expression by Ashley Thorpe.

Highlights of her career include an installation called ā€˜Conversations with Friends’, which was shown at Collect Open at the Saatchi Gallery in London in 2019. In 2017, her work was shown at the Keramiekmuseum Princessehof in the Netherlands in an exhibition entitled ā€œSexy Ceramicsā€, and in 2014, her work was included in the exhibition ā€œVessels: The Spirit of Modern British Ceramicsā€ at Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art in Japan.