Martin & Siobhan Miles-Moore
2024 – Taking part in Potfest South East – Glynde Place and Potfest South West – Shaftesbury
Miles-Moore Ceramics is the award winning business of Martin and Siobhan Miles-Moore. Now based in The Lune Valley we have been working in Cumbria for eight years.
Martin has been making pots since the mid 1980s, graduating in 1989 from UCLAN with an HND in 3D Design( Ceramics) and returned to a full time career in ceramics in 2016. In this phase of his career Martin has focused on functional ware. He is fascinated with different manners in which people relate to and use them in everyday, special occasion and spiritual practice.
Part of this fascination is about how people relate to place and their connection to it, through food, drink or practice. By integrating found and foraged materials, natural stones and wood ashes Martin’s work connects his work to generations of craftspeople working in this way.
Siobhan studied art and design before working in Higher Education. She joined Martin in the business in 2017. Her work shared Martin’s approach to materials but also integrates the endangered craft of gilding.
Their work can be found in Michelin Starred Restaurants across the United Kingdom as well as in private and public collections across the world. Working with restaurants has given us plenty of opportunity to collaborate with other creatives and craftspeople.
Our work has also been featured on Countryfile and Masterchef and a Channel 5 Documentary which will be aired in early 2024, as well as in all the Major Broadsheets and regional press.
As part of our interest in the Tea Ceremony we are establishing an organisation called The Contemporary Chadogu Association. This group aims to explore the full range of ceramics used in the Tea Ceremony and uniquely brings together a Tea Master, students of Tea, Academics and Potters across the world. We have already hosted a number of events at the Sake Distillery at Fordham Abbey.