Exhibitions & Projects

You’re invited… To ‘Motley Wild: The Cabaret’

Join us for the vibrant preview evening of our upcoming exhibition Motley Wild: The Baron Gilvan & Guests and the launch of our new range of Artefact wines: Artefact 7,8,9.

This bold exhibition, coinciding with @artwavefestival,...

Sake Tasting with Tim Copsey & Kylie Clark

29 August 2024, 18:30 - 19:30

Booking link in my bio…

Immerse yourself in an evening of art, craftsmanship, and fine sake at County Hall Pottery's Metamorphic exhibition. This unique event showcases the extraordinary sake...

Very pleased to be part of "Plants in Parallel’, the first group show at Ensō London @ensohouse , opens on the 8 August 2024 at 6pm.

The exhibition draws inspiration from the origins of the word ‘plant’, which emerges from an apparent contradiction: to sprout, ‘planta’ and to fix in place...

I'm thrilled to be included in Metamorphic at County Hall Pottery. @countyhallpottery Opening Monday 8th July - 1st September.

Opening Times:
Mon 8th July - Sun 1st September
11am - 1pm & 1.30pm - 6pm

Address:
County Hall
Belvedere Road
London
SE1...

Together with the wonderful team at OmVed Gardens, Thrown Contemporary will present a collaborative exhibition and events programme for @londoncraftweek titled 'Alchemy', a melting pot of craft, creativity and nature and the many ways that they intertwine.

Opening on Saturday 11th May and...

Very pleased to have my film SERVING SUGGESTIONS chosen by the CICEMA Manises International Ceramics Film Festival Selection Committee to be included in the Official Section of their festival.

The film will compete for the City of Manises Award and the Audience Award.

Manises, 31...

Very excited to be part of Ceramic Art London this year... this little guinomi is coming with me to @ceramicartlondon - shino and oribe with gold and silver porcelain inclusions.

@showtrialstudio will be showing new 3D & 2D work in my studio:

15th March until 31st March.

I have made a range of pieces in response to Simon's work and some of the ideas around its making. Visitors will get the opportunity to make a tile by mistake.

More to come.......

Flower and Roots - Ikebana exhibition @anywhereoutofthe.world with @junkoikebana and @ken161022 who, I'm very pleased to report, will be using my pots during the show.

22 - 24 March
Anywhere Out Of The World
First Floor
70 Tib St
Manchester M4 1LG

'Open ikeban...

Very excited to be showing at
Ceramic Art London
19-21 April 2024
Kensington Olympia West
The UK's foremost contemporary ceramics event!
@ceramicartlondon

Looking forward to returning to York Ceramics Fair this year

9-10 March 2024
YORK RACECOURSE
Knavesmire Road
York, YO23 1EX

Very pleased to have the wonderful @rableygallery taking a new collection of work to London Art Fair @londonartfair hopefully see you there.

16 - 21 January 2024
Islington Business design Centre
52 Upper Street
London, N1 0QH

Very excited to be part of the SAAN1 exhibition - opening the same night as the Channel catwalk show!! I think?

First ‘Saan1 Festival: A Glimpse of Japan’! 7-10 December 2023

2/F: ‘And Then a Sudden Sun Explodes’ by Tim Copsey @timcopseypottery

‘Kachoufuugetsu’, a Tsumami-...

雪と雪 今宵師走の 名月か

Yuki to yuki / Koyoi shiwasu no / Meigetsu ka

The snow and snow.
This evening would have,
The great moon of December.

Matsuo Basho – Wandering South Towards Kyoto, Winter 1684
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In Rabley Gallery’s new exhibition...

I'm very pleased to be included in Ashley Thorpe's @pjwe111 latest book - I'm honoured to be surrounded by the very best ceramic artists in the UK today, all of which I admire. Thanks.

Chapter Twenty-Two of “Contemporary British Studio Pottery: Forms of Expression” looks at the work of @...

Pleased to be asked to show @kerb.wine again this Autumn. I'll be presenting lots of new work... some very big others more delicate designed for drinking and flowers. The wonderful @junkoikebana will be dancing with the flowers and @dankop_z will be providing the soundtrack. It all kicks off at...

@art_show_mud It’s that time of year again!. MUD will be open for the first weekend of Artwave ONLY, don’t miss out! Come to Glynde for a right mixture of Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, prints, possibly a video, possibly a performance. it will be what it will be; as always!

Very pleased to be @celebratingceramics (my first time!) @waterperrygardens this weekend. Say hello if you're planning to be there... I'm even going to be demonstrating how I make a few of my pieces on my stand!

The two pieces in the image are brand new and will be coming with me - gold...

The wonderful PotFest Circus rolls into Compton Verney - come and say hello.

I’m at the Towner Gallery this weekend, say hello if you are around.

As part of my @aa2aproject residency with @uclan_ceramics I have been invited to show some recent work in this exhibition of ceramics by selected alumni, current students, staff and special guests that have been associated with the ceramics department at the university.

Piece illustrated...

I'm so very excited to be showing at COLLECT this year... so much so I can't decide which image to use...

I will be represented by Thrown at Collect (3-5th March 2023), the leading international fair for contemporary craft and design, at Somerset House, London. My work will be part of...

New Members @ceramicscentre 02/02/23- 25/02/23.

The PV is on Thursday 02/02/23 from 6PM - 8PM - see you there?

I'm very pleased to be included in the new members exhibition with @craftpotters at their beautiful gallery @ceramicscentre opposite the @britishmuseum.

Here's what...

Very surprised and pleased to be an AA2A @aa2aproject placement with the wonderful @uclan_ceramics @uclanuni department and their MA students.

Always very pleased when @theweaversfactory ask to show small selection of my work - Thank you

Thrown Contemporary will be curating an inaugural exhibition: Contemporary on the Mezzanine at the Decorative Fair, Battersea - antiques of the future?


Solo show of recent large pieces

Very pleased to be showing alongside some incredibly cool makers and designers at this new show @selectedspace it’d be lovely to meet you if you’re anywhere near...

Very excited to be showing work with @rableygallery - a solo exhibition infact and more exciting shows to come!

Piece illustrated: Billionaires Will Steal Our Moons

Very excited to show at the first year of onlyclay at Kelham Island Museum on the Craft Potters Association stand! Only clay is a new ceramics show featuring some very amazing...

The Sculpture Lounge is an incredible concentration of artists in Holmfirth and they invited me to join them for their summer show! Thanks. https://sculpturelounge.com/

Group show which just gets better and better each year.

A wonderful show in York's St Johns University - organised by the CPA

A "life" saving inititative by artists for artists. During the Covid pandemic lockdown galleries, shows and open studios just stopped. the #artistssupportpledge was a way that artists of all skills, ages, careers and media could post work online pledging to sell for no more than £200 and once in...

First virtual show 2021

The Hepworth Wakefield had it's first ceramics fair in 2018 and Tim Copsey was very pleased to be able to show then - and excited to be showing again in 2020, but Covid 19 made the fair impossible and as a consequence a very different...

Tim Copsey was the Art Mill Gallery featured artist (ceramic) during Winter 2019 / 2020 - this was a beautifully curated show in this airy gallery that really favours woodfired pottery.

https://www.artmillgalleries.co.uk/

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The Weavers Factory in Upper Mill is an incredible art gallery project set up by Nigel and Julian in honour of the previous owner of the building - Joan Charnley, an artist and educator whose passion for creativity and the ciommunity is beautifully reflected in the changing exhibitions. Visit...

This is the third year that empty_ potter Tim Copsey has been invited to show at MUD. ArtWaveFestival in East Sussex is a month long festival of visual art, showcasing the incredibly rich talent of both local and international artists.

The gallery has put on a group show for the past five years. This year was more of an assessment show in which we displayed work that we have collected over this time - it was fascinating to see the breadth and quality of the work.

Tim Copsey was invited to show his latest work as part of this inaugural arts and craft event at Dartington Hall in Devon. Dartington has been famous in the past for it's nurturing approach to craft and counts many famous makers as alumni -

The amazing Hepworth Wakefield had it's first ceramics fair in 2018 and Tim Copsey was very pleased to be able show there. It was a really nicely curated concentration of artists and makers with something for all tastes.

Tim Copsey's ceramic work was shown at Manchester Art Fair this year. Blackmore Gallery took a number of pieces for their stand at this prestigous art world event - sold pretty well too!

Colony Art is a new artist and curator led initiative in Rochdale. Based at Richard Fitton's painting studio they aim to showcase emerging artists alongside works by established painters from the the past century.

Over a series of short workshops at my local school (it's about 300 meters away, see pictures below). The pupils worked with a number of techniques to produce individual thumb pots and Greek inspired coil pots. The enthusiasm and results were fantastic. I'm very proud of their work.

This is the first outside 'show' for Tim Copsey for a very long time. He will be taking his latest pots to this yearly makers showcase held at York racecourse in early October.

Lucy Newman and Bob Dixon have been feature artists at the space for many years. This is the first time they have curated a show during the incredible ArtWave Festival in East Sussex. Tim Copsey will be taking his latest pottery work to show.

We are launching a limited edition magazine in July 2016, the content will be group sourced and uses the notion of common sense as inspirational jumping off point.

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Holmfirth Art Week is our annual week long open studio, we show a selection of artists working in various formats. This year our fringe show will be from 3rd - 9th July, 2016

Holmfirth Art Week is our annual week long open studio, we show a selection of artists working in various formats. Image: Lucy Newman 'teatowels'

Staged in an old co-op's butchery outside of Holmfirth, Peak District, very atmospheric still had it's hooks and tiles

After Holmfirth Art Week in 2014 we decided to build a proper kiln for the space. It didn't seem a mad escapade at the time, but it took 4 months and a lot of money to make... and at first it was hard to control.

The ware chamber is approx .9 cubic metres. It takes approx 15 + hours to...

Holmfirth Art Week is our annual week long open studio, we show a selection of artists working in various formats.

'The cause of labour is the hope of the world' As part of the Holmfirth film festival empty_ was turned into a popup cinema. This highly aclaimed documentary presents a reworking of footage of the once strong Durham mining communities. Using just a musical soundtrack it charts the rise and fall...

Our neighbour, Chris Preddle reading from his recent poetry collection "Cattle Console Him" at empty_ in 2013. The consoling cattle in Chris Preddle’s second collection can be seen from his kitchen window in...

The first Holmfirth Art Week fringe event to be held in the space.

In 2013 we made the decision to renovate the barn and start to use it as a workshop, gallery and creative space. We started in February and finished in July the same year. During this time we relaid the stone flag floor, rebuilt an internal dry stone wall (thanks to Steven at Fenchurch...