FiredUp4 is back!

Kate Malone MBE's Charity Ceramic Auction Initiative, Championing Creativity for Young People
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FiredUp4 is a brilliant charity initiative led by the ceramicist Kate Malone MBE that aims to raise funds to provide OnSide Youth Zones with pottery studios and give young people access to clay and creativity. Celebrities such as Johnny Vegas, Sara Cox, Sir Lindsay Hoyle are amongst a handful of key ambassadors.


During London Craft Week, on the 12 May, Kate Malone along with Maak Contemporary Ceramics director Marijke Varrall-Jones, ceramicist Barnaby Barford and artist and Great Pottery Throwdown judge Rich Miller will be in a panel discussion chaired by Sonia Solicari, at the Museum of the Home.


In November 2020, FiredUp4 raised over £120,000 in a charity auction that brought together donations from 33 leading UK ceramicists and artists. With the funds raised, two pottery studios have been retrofitted with equipment and staffed, and hundreds of young people across the UK have since had the opportunity to experience pottery and work with clay.


OnSide Youth Zones help to provide young people living in disadvantaged communities with somewhere to go, something to do and someone to speak to. This May, FiredUp4 is back with another auction, this time with 50+ leading international artists and ceramicists such as; Edmund de Waal, Miray Mehmet, Barnaby Barford, and creatives who do not normally work in clay such as Dame Zandra Rhodes, all donating pieces and demonstrating support for the cause. All funds raised with the aim of supporting three new Youth Zones based across the UK.


Contributing artists are: Nicholas Arroyave | Felicity Aylieff | Barnaby Barford | Anna Barlow | Clive Bowen | Dylan Bowen | Alison Britton | Keith Brymer-Jones | Adam Buick | Fernando Casasempere | Christine Cherry | Nic Collins | Tommaso Corvi-Mora | Claire Curneen | Kate Daudy | Edmund De Waal | Ken Eastman | Michael Eden | Fitch and McAndrew | Tanya Gomez | Lisa Hammond | Ashraf Hanna | Malene Hartmann Rasmussen | Peter Hayes | Nicola Hicks | Akiko Hirai | Duncan Hooson | Hitomi Hosono | Liza Katzenstein | Jim Keeling | Chris Keenan | Jin Eui Kim | Gabriele Koch | Jaejun Lee | Jennifer Lee | Andrew Logan | Sophie MacCarthy | Kate Malone | Jim Malone | Carol McNicoll | Miray Mehmet | Rich Miller | Valeria Nascimento | Bisila Noha | Enrique Perezalba Red | Aneta Regel | Dame Zandra Rhodes (pictured) | David Roberts (pictured) | Paul Scott | Anna Silverton | Jacob van der Beugel | Andrew Wicks

Published Apr 22, 2022