Australian ceramic artist Emily Brookfield will be showcasing her tiny ceramic chair sculptures at The Pottery Expo in 2026. In it’s 25th year of operation, The Pottery Expo will be held on the grounds of the iconic Heidi Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne’s north.

The Design Files got in touch with Australian ceramic artist Emily Brookfield to find out how her obsession with making tiny ceramic chair sculptures began.

The ultimate gift guide for the ceramics lover in your life. Bonus points if that ceramics lover is you! If you or someone you love is obsessed with ceramics, you’re in the right place. I have rounded up my favourite pieces that I have made from my website and created this gift guide to make your life a little easier this holiday season.

'Common Folk', a solo exhibition by Emily Brookfield draws on the nostalgic childhood memories taking folk art classes in the back of a haberdashery shop during the mid 90’s. The exhibition reflects the patience, care and attention to detail that craft based practices embody. Showing at Boom Gallery, Geelong West, 11th - 20th December, 2025. Feature image by Carli Wilson

I have a cute little feature in issue 127!

Yep, thats right! It’s the end of an era.

Almost eight years of creating and teaching from my tin shed home studio in the Yarra Valley and my time in this space is coming to an end. So what does that mean for my ceramics practice moving forward?

This June I will be releasing my first official tiny chair collection for 2025! All the when, where, how and why? are in this post. I am so excited to share what I have been working on behind the scenes from my home studio in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs.

I have a lot of plans for 2025 and can’t wait to get into my humble home studio in Lilydale, Victoria to start making with clay. I am offering cute hand building workshops and one on one pottery wheel lessons from my studio! If you have been wanting to try a new creative hobby or prioritise more ‘me time’ these offerings might just be for you.

I am so excited to share the details for my solo exhibition ‘Anagama Archives’ happening this October at Warrandyte Pottery in Melbourne's eastern suburbs. This collection of work spans a total of four months broken up over the course of two years during two separate trips to Japan to participate in firing an Anagama wood firing kiln.

I have just completed a new chair sculpture and have entered it into this year's National Emerging Art Prize.

A quick update on what I’ve been up to and what I’m planning for the rest of 2024! I will be showing the work I made in Japan in 2022 and early 2024 in spring this year, keep you eyes peeled for more info. I’ll be releasing a capsule collection that will be available online this July. Watch this space for more info and lastly, I will be opening my home studio in Lilydale for one on one tuition as of 15th July. Read on for details.

I was approached by Gabie of Warrandyte Pottery Studio to shoot for their upcoming event, Dinner With A Difference merging gourmet dining with exquisite handmade ceramic dinnerware.

In 2022 I was lucky enough to be able to travel to Japan before the borders opened (crazy how long ago lockdowns seem now!) to undertake a six week artist residency in the countryside of Gunma prefecture, Japan with seven other artists from around the world.

My work is now available at the NGV!

I am so excited to finally be able to let you in on the project I’ve been working on in conjunction with the National Gallery of Victoria’s major exhibition Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse that opened over the weekend.

I am excited to announce that I will be part of two group exhibitions this October as part of Craft Victoria’s 2022 Craft Contemporary festival line up.

Craft Contemporary (1–31 October) is Craft Victoria’s annual festival amplifying the practice of craft in a state-wide gathering of talks, live demonstrations, exhibitions and more. Contemporary expressions of craft are explored within gallery, retail, educational and public spaces, calling attention to its ubiquitous and engaging presence.

Late last year I was approached by VicHealth to create eight trophies for the 2022 VicHealth Health Promotion Awards.

So, 2021 certainly feels like a distant dream (or maybe nightmare?) now! Seems like everyone is already full steam ahead into 2022. We’re all trying to hype ourselves up to go back to work even though we’d all rather be relaxing and spending quality time with friends and loved ones for a tiny bit longer.

I was lucky enough to be part of the Craft Contemporary Virtual Open Studios on October 16th hosted by Craft Victoria. This was so much fun and because it was an online event, it gave me the opportunity to connect to a wider audience and share my studio space and practice.

I’m very excited to announce that I am part of Craft Victoria’s Virtual Open Studio line up as part of the Craft Contemporary Festival 2021! Join me in the (virtual) studio on October 16th at 11am!