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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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