THE EMMANUEL COOPER MEMORIAL LECTURE 2026

Sara Flynn will share her experiences, the challenges, people, places, choices, successes, failures and curve-ball opportunities that have come her way throughout a deeply satisfying life with clay. Integral to this journey is Sara’s passion for her chosen material – porcelain; a hunger to learn; and a commitment to the sculptural potential of the ceramic vessel as expressed through her treatment of colour, form, line, contours and edges.

Her career began in 1999 producing small-scale functional pots, a practice that has since developed into a focus on one-off sculptural decorative vessels in porcelain. Her work is held in many major national and international collections. She was shortlisted for the inaugural edition of the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize in 2017 and has been a member of the Experts Panel for the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize since 2018. She is represented by Erskine, Hall & Coe, Mayfair, London.

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