Events




2025
22 August
GreenEconomy Networking Event 
Speaking about Periphery Materials 
17-21 September
Exhibiting Periphery Materials research at Material Matters, London Design Festival
2 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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Oil PaintingOngoing
Important because it’s something that is just for me. 

My own ceramic work was inspired by painters like Mark Rothko and Gehardt Richter. Before making marks on clay I tried them out on paper, walls, workbenches - whatever surface was to hand. I learned to enjoy that process from stretching paper to building layers of colour - which meant something to me, if not to anyone else. 

I enjoy the energy and spontaneity and the risk of something being bad, but doing it anyway. The feeling you get just before you start as much as the outcome you get at the end.