Events



2025
22 August
GreenEconomy Networking Event 
Speaking about Periphery Materials  17-21 September
Exhibiting Periphery Materials research at Material Matters, London Design Festival2 OctoberAttending Clay Conference: From Waste to Resource: Circular Economies For Construction Clay Spoil 17-19 OctoberSelected for RDI Summer Sessions at Dartington Hall


Last Updated 01.08.25
Chris Crawford



Potter, designer and materials researcher based in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

Moving toward less extractive, lower carbon ways of designing, making and building things.

I believe that the most interesting work happens at the intersections—between art and science, craft and industry, design and engineering. 

Painting, researching, throwing, teaching, 3D printing - I am not interested in ‘staying in my lane’. 

I enjoy big challenging problems and fresh ideas.

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Iron based glazes at Sunken Studio2022
A project built on creative constraint. 

Many of the transition metal colouring oxides used in ceramics are mined in highly questionable conditions causing all kinds of social and environmental damage. 

This project looks to explore Iron as one of the most abundant and least harmful of the metal oxides we use in ceramics. 

By changing the surrounding chemistry of the glaze - different colour expressions were developed.