CERAMIC Art York will present the best of Britain's potters in a three-day showcase of contemporary ceramics in the Museum Gardens from September 9 to 11.

This York event will be a chance to explore studio pottery ranging from homeware to large sculptural pieces, as well as to meet some of the most talented makers working today, whose styles vary from traditional to cutting-edge 21st century practice.

Among the potters taking part will be Antonia Salmon; Jin Eui Kim; Joan and Jack Hardie; Katharina Klug and Ruth King, from Main Street, Shipton-by-Beningbrough, near York.

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OPject by Jin Eui Kim

Antonia Salmon's ceramic sculptures capture a sense of inner stillness and structure: qualities inherent in the natural world from which she draws inspiration. Her hand-burnished and smoke-fired vessels and sculpture are held in collections worldwide.

Jin Eui Kim explores the perception of three-dimensional ceramic through the applications of tonal bands on their surfaces, while Joan and Jack Hardie combine art, craft and technology to create their ceramics, using 3D printing to design and produce forms that cannot be made in any other way. Inspired by nature, they work in porcelain and glazed stoneware, using a home-made 3D printer that extrudes very thin coils of soft clay and presses them down in layers: a process that calls on all their accumulated pottery know-how.

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Apple Bowl, in porcelain, by Joan and Jack Hardie

Katharina Klug creates timeless vessels from porcelain at her potter’s wheel in Cambridge. The decoration features naïve, spontaneous pencil strokes in graphic, simple patterns that conjure movement and direction. Every line is drawn by hand, "preserving the moment of making", with Klug's narrative coming from "observed snippets in her environment", from stripes on cloth, wires and cables, to plants, grasses, architecture and streets.

Event organiser Ruth King is one of Britain’s pre-eminent salt glaze potters, chairman of Ceramic Art York, a national CPA council member and the long-standing chairman of York Open Studios to boot. Her vessels bear salt-glazed tones that range from rich rusts to luminous greens and silvery greys, "showing how sculptural and elemental modern ceramics can be".

Further participants will include James Oughtibridge, Anna Lambert, Lara Scobie and, from the York area, Isa Denyer and Chiu-i Wu.

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James Oughtibridge

For those wanting to learn more about the craft of pottery, a programme of talks, discussions and demonstrations will be held during the festival, whose opening hours will be 10am to 6pm, September 9 and 10, and 10am to 5pm on September 11. The event aims to attract collectors, enthusiasts or anyone wanting to buy a unique piece.

Ceramic Art York is organised by the Craft Potters Association of Great Britain, the national body that has represented studio potters and ceramic artists since 1958, runs the Contemporary Ceramics Centre in Great Russell Street, London, and publishes Ceramic Review.

Ceramic Art York is a northern companion piece to the annual flagship event, Ceramic Art London. One-day tickets for next month's showcase cost £12 at ceramicartyork.org