Elin is potter based at Kigbeare Studios on the edge of Dartmoor, Devon. Originally from North Wales, she was recipient of the National Eisteddfod of Wales Young Artist Scholarship in 2022, and in 2023 received an Arts Council Create Grant to spend 18 months apprenticing with wood-firing potter Simon Levin in the US. Since graduating from the BA (Hons) Ceramics degree at Cardiff School of Art and Design in 2019, she has shown work in multiple exhibitions around the United Kingdom, including at London Craft Week, Collect Art Fair and Circle Contemporary Gallery.

Elin is a fluent Welsh speaker.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 ‘Broken Beauty’ Collaboration with Molton Brown showcased in July 2023 at Molton Brown’s Regent Street flagship store, London
2022 Ar Ddaear Gofod Bach/On Earth a Little Space. Oriel Plas Glyn y Weddw, Llanbedrog

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Strictly Functional Pottery National. Lancaster Museum of Art, PA, USA
2023 Carbondale Clay Center Holiday Invitational. Carbondale, CO USA
Collect Art Fair with the Cynthia Corbett Gallery. Somerset House, London
2022 Y Lle Celf (National Eisteddfod Young Artist Scholarship). Tregaron, Ceredigion
The Willow House. Twenty Twenty Gallery, Ludlow
‘The Gallery’ Liberty London x Crafts Council. Liberty London
Focus on the Female: London Art Fair Edit. Business Design Centre, London
Ash Ember Flame. Embassy of Japan, London
2021 It’s a Small World. Circle Contemporary Gallery, Cornwall
An Artist in the World. Mission Gallery, Swansea
Meaning Behind Materiality. The Gainsborough Hotel, South Kensington, London
House of Pots. 20 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, London
Showcase. Dover Street Market, Mayfair, London
2020 Young Welsh Artists/Artistiaid Ifanc Cymru. MOMA Machynlleth, Powys
Tanio/Ignite. Aberystwyth Arts Centre Ceramics Gallery, Aberystwyth
2019 Young Masters Art Prize. La Galleria, Royal Opera Arcade, Pall Mall, London
Jane Phillips Award Graduate Showcase. Mission Gallery, Swansea
Art in Clay, Hatfield House
New Designers, London

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Feb 2023 - July 2024 Mill Creek Pottery Apprentice, IL, US
April 2024 Assistant to Simon Levin at La Meridiana, Certaldo, Italy
2023 Panellist at ‘Kiln Firers Roundtable’, International Ceramics Festival, Aberystwyth
April 2023 Assistant to Simon Levin at Syracuse University, NY, US
2020-2023 Social Media, Admin and Marketing Assistant, International Ceramics Festival, Aberystwyth
Aug-Oct 2022 Wood Firing Young Artist in Residence, Guldagergaard, The International Ceramic Research Centre, Denmark
2022 Assistant to Susanne Lukacs-Ringel, Mörsingen, Germany (6 weeks March-April)
2021 Co-leader at wood firing, Oxford University Anagama project, Wytham Woods
2021 Selected for ‘Crafting Business’ Crafts Council and Crafting Europe Mentoring Programme

AWARDS

2023 Arts Council Wales International Opportunities Fund to attend NCECA, OH, US
2022 Arts Council Wales ‘Create’ Grant to fund 18 month apprenticeship
The Geoffrey Crawshay Memorial Travelling Scholarship
Ysgoloriaeth Artist Ifanc/National Eisteddfod of Wales Young Artist Scholarship
The Craft Pottery Charitable Trust Grant
2019 Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Prize Shortlisted
Potclays Graduate Award for Innovations in Clay

EDUCATION

2016-2019 Cardiff Metropolitan University. BA (Hons) Ceramics
2018 HDK, Gothenburg. BA (Hons) Ceramics - Erasmus

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

‘The Erasmus Effect’, Ceramic Review, July/August 2021, Issue 310 Pages 49-51
’Fire and Salt on the Schwäbische Alb’, New Ceramics, Jan/Feb 2025

WORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

University of Oxford Anagama Kilns Handling Collection
Aberystwyth University Ceramics Collection