Spotlight on sculpture: Battersea Autumn 2025
Discover beautiful sculpture and ceramics at Affordable Art Fair Battersea Autumn, 15 – 19 October.
Affordable Art Fair
Thursday 2 October, 2025
Annie Parker, SIREN I, portland stone, Turning Tides Contemporary Art.
Sculpture and ceramics have evolved far beyond traditional forms and functional craft. Today’s artists are using clay, stone, bronze, and porcelain to create contemporary work that pushes these ancient mediums in exciting new directions. These materials carry both historical weight and endless possibility, explaining why they’re captivating a new generation of collectors and institutions. Galleries, museums, and art fairs are championing sculptural work, dedicating more space to pieces that blur the line between craft and fine art.
At Affordable Art Fair Battersea Autumn, you’ll discover a beautiful variety of sculptural works and ceramics that showcase this momentum. From striking carved stone to experimental glazes and surfaces that invite closer inspection, these pieces demonstrate how artists are harnessing texture, volume, and material to create innovative work. Let’s dive in!
Kayleigh Peters, Gallery Cube Seoul
Working with ceramics and textiles, Kayleigh draws on feminist craft traditions, reclaiming them from the patriarchy. Her research led practice weaves mythology, medical history, and personal experience to confront gender bias in healthcare – work that’s deeply connected to her own experience of living with hidden illnesses. Discover her work this autumn at Gallery Cube Seoul, stand B3.
Mercedes Lucy, Margo In Margate
Mercedes Lucy creates beautiful ceramic artworks that are both tactile and emotionally layered. She draws directly onto clay with spontaneous, mythic marks that celebrate the mess and magic of lived experience. Her pooling glazes and imperfect surfaces speak to care, rupture, and repair. Beyond ceramics, she also creates immersive installations with macramé, textiles, and sound. Her work centres on the body, the home, and time, in which softness and fury exist side by side.
Mercedes Lucy is represented by Margo In Margate, stand D7. She’s also a permanent studio holder at Tracey Emin’s TKE Studios and has exhibited at Saatchi Gallery, Matt’s Gallery, and Flowers Gallery.
Annie Parker, Turning Tides Contemporary Art
Annie Parker has a passion for carving stone sculpture. Many years of portrait painting have left her with an abiding fascination with human expression, reflected in her series of stone heads.
“The human face is an endless source of inspiration. It reflects the whole of humanity, and I have an ongoing compulsion to recreate it in my stonework. I aim to transform rock into emotional expression. I want my sculptures to give visual pleasure, to touch people and communicate my passion. I’m driven by a pure search for the perfect form, the line of beauty, and sheer harmony. I’ll go back to a work endlessly to achieve a particular curve. It’s the ceaseless struggle to extract the spirit from the stone,” says Annie.
Find her work at Turning Tides Contemporary Art, stand J4.
Matt Horne, AALondon Gallery
Matt Horne creates hand-thrown ceramics with wonderful unique glazes. Working with thrown porcelain finished with crystalline glaze, each piece features crystals that grow during firing. These crystals form randomly, making every piece unique. Since 2009, Matt has been refining his technique, experimenting with form and testing new glazes to produce exciting colour combinations. Find his work at AALondon Gallery, stand B1.
Loraine Rutt, TAG Fine Arts
Maps carry an implied honesty, yet flattening Earth’s sphere demands distortion that reshapes facts and alters how we perceive place, belonging, and identity. Loraine Rutt’s work explores this altered representation, transforming two dimensional maps back into sculptural form.
Through shifts in scale and volume, from pocket globes to exaggerated topographies, she highlights themes of environmental and social inequality, migration, and epic journeys. Her practice, shaped by three decades of working clay with fingertips and improvised tools, transforms digital sources into enduring physical artefacts. Visit TAG Fine Arts on stand F1.
Dan Jamieson, Air Contemporary
Dan Jamieson’s hate plates are a favourite, featuring tongue-in-cheek statements that are both blunt and humorous. They centre around the rigours of socialising, irritating habits, drinking, snacking, and misplaced nostalgia, aiming to provoke reaction and spark conversation. Get there quick to buy yours—they fly off the walls!
Gail Altschuler, Art Movement
Gail Altschuler uses clay and porcelain as her canvas, telling personal stories from her sketchbooks. She draws figures, faces, and places using graphic techniques: Mishima inlay, where etched lines are filled with underglazes; sgraffito, where lines are scratched through colour to reveal what’s beneath; and colour washes under transparent glaze.
Blurring the lines between art and craft, her work ranges from unique plates for installations to sculptural vessels. Sketchbook observations are drawn, etched, inlaid, and painted under transparent glaze, exploring themes of relationships, couples, siblings, musicians, and artists. Gail is represented by Art Movement, stand I1.
Tania Babb, Barnes Collective
Tania Babb’s sculptures explore relationships, vulnerability, and the delicate dance of giving and receiving affection, whether between people or their beloved pets. Each charming porcelain artwork speaks through its gestures and etched lines, revealing the dynamics of emotional bonds.
Tania handcrafts each piece without moulds or assistance, from forming to glazing and firing. Her dedication shows in every finished sculpture. Find her work at Barnes Collective, stand K3.
Sofia Magalhães, Narrative gallery
Represented by Narrative Gallery, Portuguese artist Sofia Magalhães is new to the fair this edition. She uses porcelain as her canvas, creating vibrant ceramic plates that merge painterly expression with sculptural form. She draws and paints playful geometric compositions, miniature stories, and warm colour palettes, always referencing the greater art canon. Her process involves multiple firings to build up delicate layers of glaze, ceramic paper, gold details, and bas-relief motifs. The result is highly collectible work that celebrates both precision and spontaneity.
Olivia Clifton-Bligh, OWL Gallery
Olivia Clifton-Bligh works in bronze, clay, wax, and paper, creating figurative sculptures and linocut prints. She explores indigenous country lore, both ancient and emerging, integrating closely observed botanical and zoological studies with the rich metaphorical language of narrative traditions. Her work reflects on our historical and changing relationships with the natural world.
At Battersea, she’ll be showing new linocut prints and ceramic sculptures from her Seed Song series celebrating plant medicine, alongside smaller bronze sculptures. Visit OWL Gallery on stand I8.
Kristina Haritonova, Graduates Exhibition 2025
Kristina is a Latvian born, Glasgow-based ceramicist expanding her degree show series ‘A Journey to Nowhere’, featuring ceramic snails that explore migration and home. Her surreal work combines body parts with everyday objects, examining how society shapes identity and the masks people wear. Through “what if?” questions, she invites reflection on universal emotions and our shared humanity. Find her work at the Graduates Exhibition upstairs on the mezzanine.
We hope you’ve enjoyed exploring the beauty and innovation of contemporary sculpture and ceramics. Come and see these works in person, discover more incredible pieces, and perhaps bring home something to treasure.
Don’t miss the opportunity to view these wonderful artworks at Affordable Art Fair Battersea Autumn 15-19 October. Enjoy the fair and happy collecting!
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