Lisa Hammond (born 1956) is a British studio potter.[1]
She is a Fellow of the Craft Potters Association of Britain.[2] She has specialised in vapour glazing since leaving college, first using salt and, since the early 1980s, soda glaze.[3] [4] She produces a range of functional ware for the preparation, cooking and serving of food. Alongside functional ware, she makes a range of work that she describes as "individual and playful".[5] Hammond worked in Greenwich, London from 1979 and briefly set up a studio in Okehampton, Devon. In 2003-2004, she spent three months making and firing in the Mino, Gifu, area for several exhibitions in Japan. She taught ceramics at Goldsmiths College, London,[6] and has lectured and exhibited widely. In 2012 Hammond relocated back to Greenwich, London, to Maze Hill Pottery. Over the course of her career she has taught upwards of a dozen apprentices at both Maze Hill Pottery and Kigbeare Pottery for periods ranging from one to three years,[7] notable apprentices includes Yo Thom, Adam Frew, Billy Lloyd, Yoji Yamada, Darren Ellis, Florian Gadsby, Dom Upson and Francis Lloyd-Jones. Hammond has been described as one of the most committed and driven of modern studio potters, "one of a small number who have clearly inherited the mantle of studio pioneers like Michael Cardew"[8] and "the best woman potter working in Britain."[9] Her work is represented in museums and collections in the UK and abroad.[10]
In 2017 Hammond founded Clay College Stoke, based in Middleport Pottery, a skills-based, full-time ceramics course taught by potters from throughout the country and internationally. Set up costs for the college were successfully crowdfunded initially[11] and it was officially opened by Charles, Prince of Wales,[12] whose charity, the United Kingdom Historic Building Preservation Trust, funded £9 million to restore the historic factory.
Hammond was awarded an MBE in the 2016 birthday honours list.[13]