Alison Appleton (born 1965) is a British ceramic designer based in the

Baltic Triangle The Baltic Triangle is a development area in Liverpool city centre. Liverpool City Council originally defined the area as being bounded by Liver Street, Park Lane, Parliament Street and Chaloner Street / Wapping. However, since the closure of Cai ...

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a popul ...

, specializing in

porcelain Porcelain () is a ceramic material made by heating substances, generally including materials such as kaolinite, in a kiln to temperatures between . The strength and translucence of porcelain, relative to other types of pottery, arises mainl ...

teaware.

Work

Appleton has a degree in printed textile design from Liverpool College of Art, and established her own studio in 1998. She has been retailing under her own brand since 2012. Her collections are influenced by a range of sources, using specialist

clays Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4). Clays develop plasticity when wet, due to a molecular film of water surrounding the clay par ...

and glazes to create different textures and finishes, and all her teapots include stainless-steel fine-mesh filters for us with fine and long-leafed teas. Her products have been featured in various publications and magazines. In 2013 Appleton was awarded the Winner of Innovation Award by Merseyside Women of the Year for her work in establishing international trade, and the following year she was appointed an Export Champion b
UK Trade and Investment
North West.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Appleton, Alison 1965 births Alumni of Liverpool College of Art British ceramicists British women ceramicists Living people