Who We Are

Leach Pottery Staff

Director
Libby Buckley

Curatorial Team
Dr. Matthew Tyas (Curator & Deputy Director)
Sarah Lloyd (Interpretation Curator)
Ruben Bowers Storey (Curatorial Officer)
Hannah Tracey (Volunteer Coordinator)

Administrator
Margaret Parma

Studio Production Team
Roelof Uys (Lead Potter)
Matthew Foster (Production Manager - previous 2016 Apprentice)
Britta James (Production Potter)
Ellie Woods (Production Potter - previous 2021 Apprentice)
Amy Wilson (Production Potter- previous 2023 Apprentice)
Callum Cowie (2024 Apprentice)
Imogen Kempton (2025 Apprentice)

Commercial Team
Mark Williams (Commercial Manager)
Sarah White (Deputy Commercial Manager)
Joanna Wason (Duty Manager & Retail Assistant)
Devinder Sharma Benjamin (Retail Assistant)
Alison White (Retail Assistant)

Learning & Participation Team
Ellen Love (Learning & Participation Manager)
Hamish Jackson (Programme Producer & Technician)
Neil Robinson (Make with Leach Coordinator: Schools & Families)
Laura Peach (Make with Leach Technician)
Charmaine Or Kam Fat (Learning & Participation Administrator)
Jethro Lynch (Technician)

Capital Project Lead
Sara Hughes Matson (Project Lead)

Stakeholder Communications
Carol Burns (Stakeholder Comms Manager)
Esme Dale (Marketing Apprentice)

Honorary Potter

John Bedding

Potters L to R:  Henry Bird, Roelof Uys, Annabelle smith, Matthew Foster, Ellie Woods, Britta James and Callum Trudgeon.

The studio a few years ago, Potters L to R: Henry Bird, Roelof Uys, Annabelle Smith, Matthew Foster, Ellie Woods, Britta James and Callum Trudgeon.

Leach Pottery staff in 1966 with Shoji Hamada and his wife