Alison Robinson

Alison Robinson (24 February 1938 - 10 October 2022) was a ceramicist who spent a lot of her life and work in Edinburgh. In 2009 she founded Bridge Pottery Collective to ensure that young ceramists had an environment to work and share their art.

Early life and education Alison Robinson was born on 24 February 1938, in Suez, Egypt to English parents Irene and Jim Chaplin; she had an older sister, Leila.

Robinson's work is mostly focused on reduction lustre, a technique that gives a metallic shine to the ceramic art.

Personal life In the 1960s, Robinson moved to Edinburgh with her sister.

Robinson's first daughter, Chloe, died in a car crash. Robinson later married David Robinson, who also taught at Edinburgh University. The couple at two children.

In the 1970s, the family moved from Stockbridge to Gifford then to Haddington in the 1980s and Portobello in the 1990s.