Felicity Aylieff

alt=Felicity Aylieff at Shirley Sherwood Gallery, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 2024 standing between two large blue and white vases. Felicity Aylieff (born 1954, Edlesborough, Bedfordshire, England) is a British ceramic artist, potter and educator, renowned for her large-scale porcelain works and her long-standing collaboration with porcelain workshops in Jingdezhen, China. She is Professor of Ceramics & Glass at the Royal College of Art, London.

Early life and education She studied at Bath Academy of Art 1972-8 (three-dimensional design, ceramics) where she earned a First Class Honours degree. She completed a postgraduate teaching year at Goldsmiths College in 1978–79. Notable exhibitions include Sense and Perception (2002, Manchester City Art Gallery) , Out of China (One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London) , Working to Scale , New Work: An Evolution , and Expressions in Blue: Monumental Porcelain at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Kew Gardens (2024-2025). Expressions in Blue: Monumental Porcelain at The Weston Gallery & outdoors, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2025) Expressions in Blue: Monumental Porcelain at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Kew Gardens (2024–2025) Treasures from Chatsworth at Sotheby's London and New York (2019) The Perfect Place to Grow at The Royal College of Art, London (2012) Porcelain City Jingdezhen at T.T.Tsui Gallery of Chinese Art, Victoria and Albert Museum (2011) Working at Scale at Contemporary Applied Arts, London (2009) Out of China: Monumental Porcelain at One Canada Square, London (2007) Sense and Perception at the Manchester Art Gallery (2002)

Collections Her work is held in numerous public and private collections around the world, including:

Victoria and Albert Museum, London Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA Chatsworth House, Derbyshire National Museum Cardiff, Wales Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales Crafts Coucil, England Devonshire Collections, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA