Unique Venue for 2021 British Ceramics Biennial

The Items Yard, Glebe Avenue


Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire ST4 1HG

Since 2011 the China Hall of the distinctive Spode factory predicament, which is owned by Stoke-on-Trent City Council, has been home to the British British ceramics Biennial (BCB). Stoke-on-Trent City Council has secured main funding for the ongoing regeneration of every and every the China Hall and other buildings at Spode. Following basically the most most modern surveys of the positioning, some modern structural security concerns were known in China Hall and which capacity we’re not ready to use the situation as a competition venue for 2021.

We were working with our companions – Stoke-on-Trent City Council – to search out an different venue and can now verify that The Items Yard within the center of town would possibly well well be the principle competition hub for BCB 2021, which takes predicament from 11 September to 17 October.

The Items Yard used to be in-built the 19th century as a bonded warehouse broken-down to transfer goods and supplies between the railway, which lies on one facet of the building, and the canal, at as soon as on its other. The building used to be furthermore an main staging point within the British ceramics supply chain, transporting the raw supplies broken-down in manufacturing after which sending out the accomplished products spherical the world. The competition shall be presented over two floors of The Items Yard, bringing collectively work by one of the main UK’s most proficient and progressive as a lot as the moment ceramic artists for a programme of exhibitions, modern commissions and hands-on events.

‘The Items Yard is undoubtedly one of Stoke-on-Trent’s hidden gemstones – a building that even native residents obtained’t know about. We’re truly eager about as soon as extra welcoming traffic to town for a vibrant 2021 competition presented against the backdrop of Stoke-on-Trent’s extra special industrial heritage.’ – Iain Cartwright, Govt Director of the British British ceramics Biennial

The Items Yard predicament is fragment of a predominant Stoke-on-Trent City Council regeneration mission, working with companions Capital & Centric to fully remodel the situation.

Cyber net hosting BCB 2021 is fragment of a well-known broader marketing and marketing and marketing initiative spherical the positioning as neatly as consultation on The Items Yard and brings with it opportunities for spoiled-fertilisation of our audiences.

The British British ceramics Biennial, an global as a lot as the moment British ceramics competition in Stoke-on-Trent, the home of British British ceramics, returns for its seventh model from 11 September to 17 October 2021. The entire BCB competition programme shall be launched starting of August.