'Subversive Forms: Revolutionary approaches to clay' featuring Richard Deacon at Chippenham Museum, United Kingdom

5 November 2025

From 15 November – 21 February 2026, Chippenham Museum presents 'Subversive Forms: Revolutionary approaches to clay' featuring Richard Deacon.

Featuring artworks by some of the leading sculptors and innovators working with ceramics in the UK today, Subversive Forms will shine a spotlight on contemporary artists who push the boundaries of possibility with clay. Each selected artist disrupts and manipulates traditional ceramic preconceptions, creating enigmatic artworks that push the medium beyond the functional, and using clay as a non-apologetic material for sculpture.

Find out more via Chippenham Museum.

Image: Richard Deacon, Sandstone, 2022, Glazed porcelain, 45 x 56 x 30 cm, 17 3/4 x 22 x 11 3/4 in © Richard Deacon, Courtesy Lisson Gallery