Sarah Grove
2026 – Taking part in Potfest by the Lake – Compton Verney and Potfest Suffolk – Haughley Park
Since graduating from Camberwell College of Arts and setting up my studio in 2000, I make a range of simple shaped but highly textured functional porcelain. They combine a love of clay, textiles and the domestic interior with wit and curiosity. The work involves many processes from creating the textile textures, making plaster casts of the textures and designing paper pattern templates to construct textured porcelain slabs into vessels designed to be used. I stitch, upholster and quilt textures from sumptuous silks and crewelwork to more humble patchworks. Having now developed drawing with sewing machine and hand embroidery, the embroidered stitches are then overpainted with cobalt. An interest in clay and stitch were passed to me by my mother and likewise handmade textiles and precious ceramics are passed from generation to generation. I take the delicate nature of these textiles and make them permanent in porcelain.