Wedgwood as a Creative Sourcebook

What is it about Wedgwood that continues to inspire creative responses? Its innovative material experimentation or iconic blue and white jasperware? The story of its energetic founder, Josiah Wedgwood? The artists, designers and craftspeople behind the pots? Join Catrin Jones, Chief Curator of the V&A Wedgwood Collection, to discover why Wedgwood remains an icon of ceramics, and what that means in a changing world. From the enduring importance of Wedgwood’s anti-slavery medallion, to the major project to make the whole 175,000 strong V&A Wedgwood Collection and Archive available online for the first time by 2030, Catrin will share insights into Wedgwood’s enduring impact on creativity in ceramics and beyond.

Catrin Jones is Chief Curator of the V&A Wedgwood Collection. She has published widely on historic and contemporary ceramics and silver including Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years (2020) and the V&A/Thames & Hudson book Wedgwood: Craft and Design (2023). Her past projects include the touring exhibition Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years, V&A display Deception: Ceramics & Imitation, and the current V&A touring exhibition Wedgwood: Artists and Industry. She read History of Art at the University of Oxford and the Courtauld Institute, where she specialised in the 18th-century French interior, and she holds an MBA in Leadership. She is a Trustee of the Clay Foundation, which runs the British Ceramics Biennial.