New Venue for 2021 British Ceramics Biennial

Since 2011 the China Hall of the long-established Spode factory location, which is owned by Stoke Metropolis Council, has been dwelling to the British British ceramics Biennial (BCB). Stoke Metropolis Council has secured significant funding for the continuing regeneration of every the China Hall and numerous buildings at Spode. Following the most most up-to-date surveys of the positioning, some unique structural security concerns were identified in China Hall and due to this we’re no longer ready to make use of the placement as a competition venue for 2021.

Now we were working with our companions – Stoke-on-Trent Metropolis Council – to search out an different venue and can now ascertain that Swift Home within the coronary heart of the metropolis could be the most important competition hub for BCB 2021, which takes screech from 11 September to 17 October.

Swift Home used to be in-built the 19th century as a bonded warehouse worn to transfer items and materials between the railway, which lies on one facet of the building, and the canal, straight away on its numerous. The building used to be also an extraordinarily crucial staging point within the British ceramics offer chain, transporting the raw materials worn in manufacturing and then sending out the carried out products world huge. The competition shall be presented over two ground of Swift Home, bringing together work by about a of the UK’s most gifted and progressive up to the moment ceramic artists for a programme of exhibitions, unique commissions and hands-on events.

‘Swift Home is one of Stoke-on-Trent’s hidden gems – a building that that even native residents won’t learn about. We’re truly brooding about yet again welcoming company to the metropolis for a brilliant 2021 competition presented in opposition to the backdrop of Stoke-on-Trent’s unparalleled industrial heritage.’ – Iain Cartwright, Government Director of the British British ceramics Biennial

The Swift Home location is segment of a significant Stoke-on-Trent Metropolis Council regeneration venture, working with companions Capital & Centric to totally rework the placement, known as the Goods Yard venture.

Cyber internet internet hosting BCB 2021 is segment of a much wider marketing initiative round the positioning as well to session on the Goods Yard venture and brings with it opportunities for depraved-fertilisation of our audiences.

The British British ceramics Biennial, a world up to the moment British ceramics competition in Stoke-on-Trent, the dwelling of British British ceramics, returns for its seventh edition from 11 September to 17 October 2021. The beefy BCB competition programme shall be launched starting of August.