Episode 2 / LAUREL KEELEY Creativity & hope.

Laurel Keeley is a potter working in stoneware.

I’ve been working with Laurel for over 13 years but this was the first visit to her new home and studio on the outskirts of the city. The conversation was a chance to talk about the things currently at the forefront of Laurel’s mind as she enters her 44th year of making pots. We talked about what’s changed in that time, what’s stayed the same, her approach to managing creative block and what she’s finding hopeful.

Originally from Essex Laurel moved to Devon to Exeter University and has lived there ever since. She has a degree is in English and American Arts and Film and studied for a year in Toronto for an MA in Commonwealth Literature, then moved back to Exeter to start a Phd in the American Arts Department. A year of research gave way to a long held ambition to learn about Ceramics, and she moved to Exeter College of Art and Design for post graduate study.

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