Singapore's Premier Ceramics Festival
6 - 9 November 2025
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Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre
Multipurpose Hall, Level 7
What’s On at the Singapore Clay Festival 2025
The biennial edition of the Singapore Clay Festival presents an exciting lineup of programmes and curated exhibitions!
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The iconic Clay Makers’ Market with ceramic works from more than 220 clay makers
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hands-on workshops
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clay demonstrations
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pottery throwdowns
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OCBC Works of Kindness, our social awareness project
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Shaping Clay, curated selections of outstanding ceramics
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Singapore Clay Heritage, an exhibition celebrating ceramics legends.
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CLAY MAKERS' MARKET 2025
IT'S THE 5TH CLAY MAKERS’ MARKET!
FEATURING CLAY MAKERS, POTTERS, CERAMISTS, ARTISTS AND CRAFTSPEOPLE
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The Clay Makers’ Market is an important platform in Singapore for clay makers to meet other clay makers and new customers, create awareness of their works, showcase studio practices and introduce your courses. It is also the place to view the works of other clay makers, share ideas and be challenged to work in new ways.
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SHAPING CLAY 2025
CURATED EXHIBITION
SHAPING CLAY seeks to give a current, selective view of noteworthy ceramic works made by clay makers based in Singapore, that point to the future of Singapore ceramics. The jury looks to exhibit works that are artistic, original, innovative, fresh, creative, stretching the boundaries of ceramic work, that may have a sense of cultural identity and imagination.
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​2025 SELECTED CLAY MAKERS
CHUA Choon Lims
HAIROL Md Hossain
Hyesook LEE
Zestro LEOW
Sean LIM
Emily MOH
Leng SOH
TEO Fang Qi
TEO Huey Ling
Aninda VARMA
INVITED CLAY MAKERS
LOH Lik Kian & Debbie NG
TAN Teck Heng
Judging Panel
AHMAD ABU BAKAR | CHUA SOO KIM | SEAH TZI-YAN
SINGAPORE CLAY HERITAGE
ISKANDAR JALIL
The Potter's Collection
"Singapore Clay Heritage series provides insights to unfolding ceramic art history, featuring outstanding clay change-makers."
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The early 1990s saw Iskandar Jalil rise as a strident voice in pottery. His dedication to a strict studio practice and the many students he mentored brought a new wave of ceramics appreciation to Singapore. Famous for throwing out unworthy pieces of work, his development of how he interpreted ‘the ethical pot’ re-drew the guidelines of ceramics appreciation for those who followed him. Where in the 1990s the pottery medium was appreciated as craft rather than art, Iskandar’s adopted values of wabi-sabi were strongly iterated in his pottery which was exhibited at his solo The Potter’s Journey, 1990 at the National Museum Art Gallery. The watershed exhibition opened many eyes to appreciate the depth of pottery-making and also brought many collectors to his studio and exhibitions.
Singapore Clay Festival is honoured to exhibit a selection of works from the celebrated potter’s own collection. Each work marks a place in Iskandar’s memory even as it holds its position in the potter’s repository of works created over fifty years.
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OCBC WORKS OF KINDNESS 2025
Let’s recall the kindness we have received and pay it forward.
The Singapore Clay Festival, with support from OCBC, is organising OCBC Works of Kindness, a curated exhibition of chawan – tea bowls – open to all clay makers in Singapore.
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All clay makers in Singapore are invited to submit one or more chawan for this curated exhibition.
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The chawan will be exhibited in a showcase at the Singapore Clay Festival 2025 from 6 - 9 November 2025, together with chawan made by seniors served by Care Corner Singapore.
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The best three chawan chosen by a panel of judges will receive certificates of commendation.
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The deadline to submit this form is Monday 20 October 2025.
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MASTERCLASSES
Masterclasses by Singapore Clay Festival provide face-to-face time with expert practitioners.
Produced with ceramists and potters in mind, this is where you can watch, question and address specific issues
directly with experts of their field. Or just sit in and broaden your insights on the clay-making journey.
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WORKSHOPS
Workshops by Studio GDMC
Nestled in the community since 2010, Goodman Ceramic Studio (Studio GDMC) specializes in quality art education. Studio GDMC offers beginner-friendly classes for children and unique family-bonding programmes, designed as a creative introduction to various ceramic art forms. Discover the joy of clay together in a welcoming, supportive environment.
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PARTNERS
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ABOUT US
Our vision is to grow a community platform for
clay makers to connect with each other and the public,
create dialogue, education and awareness of
Singapore clay heritage and promote excellence in clay
making which reflects Singapore’s cultural diversity.