Artist Bio
Founded in 2022, Kevin Callaghan Pottery is a working studio and shop in the heart of Donegal Town — one of Ireland’s most distinctive handmade ceramics studios, where gestural earthenware pieces are made by hand, glazed with expressive bursts of colour, and shipped to homes around the world.
Kevin returned from the UK in 2022 to open KCP, bringing with him over 25 years of working with clay and a career that has taken him from Kilkenny and Cork to Glasgow, London, Paris, China, and beyond. A graduate of Crawford College of Art, he holds a Master’s from the Royal College of Art and a Master-craftsman qualification from the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland.
His work has been shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Saatchi Gallery, the London Art Fair, ZKM Museum in Karlsruhe, and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. In 2018 he represented Ireland at the Ceramic Context Biennale in Bornholm. He came home to Donegal in 2022 — and opened the doors of KCP.
“We make beautiful, gestural earthenware ceramics — vessels with real energy in them, and colour that feels alive.”
This summer Kevin is developing a new series of wall pieces — geometric works that explore the relationship between form, colour, and the warm, porous surface of clay. It’s a body of work with deep roots in his practice, exhibited internationally from the V&A to the Van Abbemuseum, and one that feels very much at home in Donegal.
