Penny Withers is a Sheffield based ceramic artist with a studio at Yorkshire Artspace. She has a degree in Fine Art from West Surrey College of Art and a post-graduate certificate in education. She curated the Sheffield Ceramics exhibition ‘Shaping the Earth’ at the Millennium Galleries and has been instrumental in setting up the no smoke, community wood kiln at Manor Lodge. She is also a mentor and technical advisor on the YA Graduate Start-Up scheme. Her work, which is sold through several UK galleries and an interior design company, is always in demand.
http://artspace.org.uk/articles/interview-with-ceramicist-penny-withers/
Stockists
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Centre for Ceramic Art, York.
Blackwell House, Windermere
Cecilia Colman Gallery, London
The Arc, Chester
Gallery Top, Rowsley
Gallery Plus, Wells Next the Sea
Gallery 6, Newark
Diary 2020
Jan 11 – Feb 28 ‘Twenty Twenty Vision’ exhibition with the Peak District Artisans at the Carriage House, Chatsworth.
May 10 Ceramics in Charnwood – ceramics market
June 05 – 07 Studio Sale – clearing out past work.
July 17 – 19 – Celebrating Ceramics, Waterperry. Crafts in Focus
August 21 – 23 Hatfield – Art in Clay
August 30 Ceramics in Southwell ceramics market
September 12 & 13th Pots and Food – Wardlow Mires
Events 2019
February ‘Scale’ solo exhibition at the gallery at Persistence Works.
May Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh.
May Hepworth Contemporary Ceramics Fair
May Ceramics in Charnwood.
June Potfest Scotland.
June Handmade Oxford
July – September Artichoke Gallery.
July PDA at Buxton Dome:
August Art in Clay, Hatfield.
Sept. Wardlow Mires, Pots & Food
Sept. Sheffield Ceramics Festival
Nov. Open Studio
Nov – Dec. Belmont House Winter Exhibition