Flower

with Amy J Hughes

Flower is an exceptional piece not only in design and scale but also for the joy it brings to the beholder.
Slab built by Amy J Hughes, Flower was then transformed into a slip cast mould.  The six-hole vase is slip cast in earthenware and then coloured slip is painted by 1882’s master potters. The piece, which is mammoth in scale, is then fired  leaving the exterior in a matt muted palette.  One side is a stunning purple finished with black while the reverse is a sunshine yellow meaning it can be displayed depending on the mood as well as the flowers.

Ceramicist Amy Jayne Hughes is primarily a studio potter so we were thrilled to collaborate with her on Flower. She came into our world and certainly taught us a thing or two!

  • Amy J Hughes

    Designer

    Amy J Hughes

    Originally from West Yorkshire, Amy lives and works in London. She shares a studio with ten of her former classmates from the Royal College of Art, who collectively transformed a railway arch in East London into a multi-disciplinary art and design studio, known as Manifold.

    Specialising in hand built ceramics and illustration, Hughes has worked and exhibited internationally, including a spell as Artist in Residence at Konstfack School, Stockholm, Sweden. She was nominated to represent the UK in ‘New Talent’ at the European Ceramic Context 2014 as well as being selected for the inaugural Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Prize 2014 for artists who show an exceptional command of ceramics, alongside an awareness of the heritage of ceramic craft. In 2015, Amy was chosen as the first Ceramics and Industry Artist in Residence at the Victoria and Albert Museum working in collaboration with 1882 Ltd., as well as being selected as one of eleven artists for AWARD at the British Ceramics Biennial ‘presenting new works exemplifying the energy and vitality of the best of British contemporary ceramics practice.’ 2016, has seen Amy nominated for the fourth prestigious Perrier-Jouët Arts Salon Prize.