David Wright is a ceramicist with connections to North East Lincolnshire, he was born and brought up in Cleethorpes and studied at Grimsby School of Art in the mid-1980s. He gained a first class honours degree in 3-D Design (Ceramics) from Wolverhampton Polytechnic before postgraduate study for a Master’s Degree in Ceramics and Glass at the Royal College of Art during which time he completed a design placement at Wedgwood in Stoke on Trent. A 27-year career in secondary education followed, teaching design & technology, serving as a faculty head for 22 years. In 2021 he took early retirement from teaching, this allowed him to revisit his earlier interests in clay. 

David’s ceramics are stocked by a number of galleries around the country and are also in private collections here and abroad, including, America, Australia, Ireland, France, Japan and New Zealand. His current work tends to be earthenware but he also uses stoneware and raku clays and firing processes. Hand building techniques such as press moulding, extruding and slabbing are employed to make components that are then assembled into pieces that often explore the possibilities of contained space such as the vessel. Surfaces are often textured to enhance interaction between clay and glaze and use is also made of stamps and applied motifs. 

David’s work is mostly small in scale and is often described as quirky or playful in character. At present his output explores ideas based around a piscine theme, producing a range of pieces that sometimes reference puns or visual jokes and sit firmly with his seaside/fishing town roots.