The Great Pottery Throwdown 2026

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Starting in 15 minutes, anyone else watching?

Gah! I missed the first 15 minutes.

What are they making (sculptures obviously but is there a theme?)

Siobhan is so good with the potters

Themselves, but meaningful to their lives. There's a lot of sad back stories going in.

Thanks! I will watch again from the beginning later but trying to fit it in between getting ready for work 😟

And it's supposed to show movement.

Can't see it myself. Or the body parts in this thing.

Yes, they're stretching the definition with this throw down.

Keith's going to need a lot of tissues.

Should have made them pull the handles, though I love his improvised tools.

Seeing as they aren’t all primarily wheel throwers they all did really well with that. It was a lot of stiff clay to work with.

I love Bill

I was just going to post that! I'd love him to win.

They all did well - they are all strong and I like them all. I hope all the sculptures work, it will be hard to judge. I expect tears will be involved.

The hair is a bit gross.

Marmite mums hairy back, Bill? Really? 🤣🤣

I'm very curious about how the Marmite comes out 😂

Struggling with the movement element for some of these.

Bill's has come out well.

And Angharad's has some sense of movement.

Eek, those oxides didn’t work at all, that’s a real shame.

Don't like any of the rest of them.

Angharad's is lovely

Naveed to go home?

I think probably, but he’s done well to get to here. And he’s justifying himself well.

I think so.

Possibly...I can't make his out at all tbh although the rough smooth/contrast is clever.