Lisa Hammond is a soda firing potter based in Greenwich, London. She has been making pottery for 40 years and is currently working at Maze Hill Pottery Studio. Alongside functional work, Hammond has a range of playful and fluid works that have been developed as a result of time spent in Japan. She works in a form that emphasizes its own materiality, the soft and strong plasticity of clay. Alongside her artistic practice, Hammond has set up “clay college” in an effort to revive studio pottery in the UK and place apprentices with master potters. As a teacher, she has brought as many as 14 apprentices into her studio and has slogged through the bureaucracy and demands of running the Clay College organization in an effort to dedicate herself to the ceramics community.