Upcoming Exhibitions

We are delighted to present Amy Wilson’s first solo show, marking her graduation from the Pottery’s three-year Apprenticeship.

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Amy Wilson: An Apprenticeship

Preview: Friday 30 October 2026, 5-7pm
Shop: 31 October - 14 November 2026
Online: 11 December 2026 - 22 January 2027

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Museum Restoration

Our Museum and exhibition spaces are undergoing restoration work from November 2025 to late 2026 as part of a major transformation of our site. For further information please see our Future Plans page.

Past Exhibitions

2025

• Matthew Tyas: At the Wheel - A Curator in Mashiko, 6 September - 5 October 2025: Shop Gallery

• The Leach Pottery: One & All, 12 July - 1 November, 2025: Entrance Gallery

• Students Over a Century: Roots and Branches, 20 July 2024 - 5 October 2025: Cube Gallery

• Muchelney Pottery: 60 Years Strong, 21 June - 20 July 2025: Shop Gallery

• Mark Griffiths: Half a Century – Full of Craft, 5 April - 6 July 2025: Entrance Gallery

• Matthew Foster: A Mashiko Residency, 15 February - 30 March 2025: Entrance Gallery

2024

• Leach Studio: A Potter’s Challenge, 14 September - 28 December 2024: Entrance Gallery

• John Bedding: 60 Years On, 25 May - 8 September 2024: Entrance Gallery

• Ellie Woods: An Apprenticeship, 20 July - 18 August 2024: Shop Gallery

• Leach Pottery: First Students, 6 May 2023 - 30 June 2024: Cube Gallery

• Colour & Movement, 9 February - 19 May 2024: Entrance Gallery

2023

• Clive Bowen at 80, 21 September - 30 December 2023: Entrance Gallery

• Roelof Uys: From Mashiko to St Ives, 21 September - 8 October 2023: Shop Gallery

• Niek Hoogland: Best of Both Worlds, 5 - 13 August 2023: Shop Gallery

• Lisa Hammond: Soda Alchemy, 8 July - 17 September 2023: Entrance Gallery

• Isatu Hyde: Beauty Rooted in Use, 6 May - 2 July 2023: Entrance Gallery

• Lou Tonkin: Sketches & Prints, 6 May - 4 June 2023: Museum Installation

• Doug Fitch & Hannah McAndrew: An Ongoing Devotion, 25 February - 30 April 2023: Entrance Gallery

• Michael Leach, October 2022 - 16 April 2023: Cube Gallery

2022

• Studio_Space, July to December 2022: Entrance Gallery

• Helen Doherty: Encountering St Ives, August to September 2022

• People & Pottery - stories from our community, April to October 2022: Cube Gallery

• Tomoo Hamada: Pots from St Ives, 2 to 31 July 2022

• John Webb: 100 Pots, April to July 2022: Entrance Gallery

• Clay & Community, November 2021 to March 2022: Cube Gallery

2021

• Hyosun Kim ‘Journey of a Moon Jar’, November to December 2021

• Leach 100 Commission Artists, November to December 2021

• 100 Years of Leach and Hamada Influence, December to February 2021

• John Leach 65 Years a Potter, July to September 2021

2020

• Annabelle Smith: An Apprenticeship, 9 November - 18 December: Online

• Century of Connections, 9 September - 4 November: Cube Gallery

• Leach Studio Potters: 100 Years On, 15 February - 12 July: Entrance Gallery & Online

• Kat Wheeler, 1 November 2019 - 8 February 2020: Entrance Gallery

• Surface, 4 May 2019 - 8 March 2020: Cube Gallery

2019

• Peter Rose: Soda Fired, 11 October - 9 November 2019: Shop Gallery

• Michel Francois & Young Gi Seo: Cornwall to Korea, 17 August - 27 October 2019: Entrance Gallery

• Callum Trudgeon: Japan & Denmark - Wood Fired Pots, 17 August - 29 September 2019: Shop Gallery

• Andile Dyalvane: Our Cultures In Constant Collaboration, 29 June - 11 August 2019: Entrance Gallery

• Potters From Japan, 2 March - 19 May 2019: Entrance Gallery

• Celebrating 10 Years, 24 March 2018 - 23 April 2019: Cube Gallery

• Shoji Hamada: 40 Years On, 8 December 2018 - 24 February 2019: Entrance Gallery

2018

• Clementina van der Walt: Solo Show, 13 October - 2 December 2018: Entrance Gallery

• Matthew Foster: An Apprenticeship, 13 October - 2 December 2018: Shop

• Roelof Uys: Works Of Function, Works Of Art, 7 July - 7 October 2018: Entrance Gallery

• Leach Pottery Studio: 10 Years On, 7 July - 9 September 2018: Shop

• Reunion: Potters From The Time Of Bernard Leach, 24 March - 1 July 2018: Entrance Gallery

• The Teabowl: Past & Present, 9 September 2017 - 11 March 2018: Cube Gallery

• Teachers’ Pots: Celebrating The Work Of Our Education Team, 4 November - January 2018: Entrance Gallery

2017

• Carson Culp: A Year at the Leach, 17 November - 1 December 2017: Shop Gallery

• Jim Malone: New Pots from the Kiln, 9 September - 29 October 2017: Entrance Gallery

• Potter's Prize Draw Exhibition, 15 - 22 September 2017

• Clay in Practice: The Leach Studio, 17 June - 3 September 2017: Entrance Gallery

• Clay: That Continuous Material, 25 March - 27 August 2017: Cube Gallery

• Callum Trudgeon: An Apprenticeship, 17 June - 30 July 2017

• Japanese Connections, 25 March - 11 June 2017: Entrance Gallery

  Plymouth in Practice: Tutors, 21 January - 12 March 2017: Cube Gallery

• Plymouth in Practice: Alumni & Students, 21 January - 19 March 2017: Entrance Gallery

2016

• Fire it Up, 5 November 2016 - January 2017

• Amanda Brier, 10 September - 30 October 2016

• David & Margaret Frith, 9 July - 4 September 2016

• Leach Heritage

• David Leach: Industrial Devils and Standard Ware, 13 September 2015 - 6 March 2016: Cube Gallery

• Jeff Oestreich & Pat Burns, 15 - 30 October 2016

2015

• Doug Fitch & Hannah McAndrew: A Love Affair with Clay, 28 November 2015 - 16 January 2016

• Kat Wheeler: A Leach Potter in Japan, 6 November 2015 - 30 March 2016

• Joanna Wason, 28 March - 23 May 2015

• Mark Griffiths, 30 May - 11 July 2015: Entrance Gallery

• Emmanuel Cooper: Connections & Contrasts, 13 June - 6 September 2015: Cube Gallery

• Glaze Alchemy, 18 July - 6 September 2015: Entrance Gallery

• Robin Welch, 12 September - 22 November 2015: Entrance Gallery

2014

• From the Studio, 13 December 2014 - 31 January 2015: Entrance Gallery

2013

• Warren MacKenzie: An American Potter, 21 September -2 November 2013

• Leach Legacy, 19 March - 8 May 2013: Entrance Gallery

• Bernard Leach: Artist: Cube Gallery

Past Off-Site Exhibitions

Exhibitions about the Leach Pottery in other locations.

• The Leach Pottery: Living The Legacy, Thrown at Highgate Contemporary, London. 7 September - 3 October 2018

• Illustrations of the Leach Pottery St Ives, 2012-2018, by Hilary Jean Gibson, Porthmeor Studios, St Ives. 27 August - 12 September 2018

• The Leach Pottery: The Sound of it, Craft Study Centre. 3 January - 9 December 2017

• That Continuous Thing: Artists and the Ceramics Studio 1920 - Today, Tate St Ives. 31 March- 3 September 2017