Alice merida richards

Alice Merida Richards is a Brighton-born artist, teacher, and facilitator. A member of the Manchester Ceramics Collective, Alice works from the group's shared studio in Old Trafford. She also collaborates closely with organisations such as Venture Arts and the British Ceramics Biennial, delivering group projects and programmes that support artistic development.

Alice's practice explores the concept of artefactness—the way an object's material qualities can evoke meaning, history, and cultural resonance. Drawing inspiration from ancient relics and ritual artefacts, her pieces function as temporal passageways, bridging the contemporary and the ancestral, the functional and the ethereal.

She is deeply engaged with materiality, process, and collaboration. Her practice reflects a sustained curiosity about and experimentation with clay, drawing on a range of techniques including wheel-throwing, slab-building, extruding, and altering. Whenever possible, her work is wood-fired, producing surfaces that bear the traces of ash and flame—records of the firing process itself.