Aug 29, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min · 13 segments
This episode, Izzy and Anna are joined by the wonderful Amelia Fulton, a ceramicist and, much to Izzy’s delight (although Anna’s slightly less so), a lover of bones. There is much to discuss…
Amelia FultonGuestAnnaHostSo, I remember we've done a little stalk of your website.
and um i remember reading you like using a lot of like waste materials and kind of was is that quite an experimental side of things is that more recent or was that like early doors in the taster sessions
yeah no so taster was yeah very sort of basic there was a break um during covert so i didn't do much pottery in that time and then i had to fight we moved house and i sort of just found a local studio where i was just doing untutored play.
So that was still very much like just figuring out your own stuff and using the clay that they provided.
So she does the waste material courses up in St Austell at her site, Brickfield, and...
yeah, I've never done it, but it looks, and I've heard amazing things.
Even if you're not really into ceramics, I just think any artist or anyone with any kind of environmental interest or craft interest would just find it really incredible because there's just so many aspects to it.
It's just like everything you walk on could be a material that you can use in sustainable ways as well, which is nice.
yeah, yeah.
the history of glaze as well and that it's pretty much all comes from ash which was accidentally sort of discovered in china like 20 000 years ago and that everything to do with it is organic and i don't really think i'd ever really deeply thought about ceramics in that way until i sort of spent that time up there because if you buy pottery from the store or whatever it's obviously feels really mass-produced and and it can be not clinical that's not the right word but It's sort of detached from craftsmanship.
So, I remember we've done a little stalk of your website.
and um i remember reading you like using a lot of like waste materials and kind of was is that quite an experimental side of things is that more recent or was that like early doors in the taster sessions
yeah no so taster was yeah very sort of basic there was a break um during covert so i didn't do much pottery in that time and then i had to fight we moved house and i sort of just found a local studio where i was just doing untutored play.
So that was still very much like just figuring out your own stuff and using the clay that they provided.
So she does the waste material courses up in St Austell at her site, Brickfield, and...
yeah, I've never done it, but it looks, and I've heard amazing things.
Even if you're not really into ceramics, I just think any artist or anyone with any kind of environmental interest or craft interest would just find it really incredible because there's just so many aspects to it.
It's just like everything you walk on could be a material that you can use in sustainable ways as well, which is nice.
yeah, yeah.
the history of glaze as well and that it's pretty much all comes from ash which was accidentally sort of discovered in china like 20 000 years ago and that everything to do with it is organic and i don't really think i'd ever really deeply thought about ceramics in that way until i sort of spent that time up there because if you buy pottery from the store or whatever it's obviously feels really mass-produced and and it can be not clinical that's not the right word but It's sort of detached from craftsmanship.
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