David Wright

David Wright is a studio potter based in Redditch, Worcestershire with connections to North East Lincolnshire, he was born and brought up in Cleethorpes and studied at Grimsby School of Art in the mid-1980s. He gained a first class honours degree in 3-D Design (Ceramics) from Wolverhampton Polytechnic in 1989 before postgraduate study for a Master’s Degree in Ceramics and Glass at the Royal College of Art during which time he completed a design placement at Wedgwood in Stoke-on-Trent. A 27-year career in secondary education followed, teaching design & technology and serving as a faculty head for 22 years. In 2021 he took early retirement from teaching, this allowed him to revisit his earlier interests in ceramics.
David’s ceramics are sold in a number of galleries around the country and held in private collections here and abroad, including, America, Ireland, France, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. His current work tends to be in white earthenware but he also uses stoneware and raku clays and firing processes. Hand building techniques such as press moulding, extruding and slabbing are employed to make components that are then assembled into the finished pieces. His current work focuses upon a somewhat fanciful aquatic world populated with quirky fish characters referencing his formative years spent in a northern seaside town.