2020

“Heat-work", Corvi-Mora, London
“Dialogues”, Taste Contemporary, Geneva

2018

“Making it Up”, Marsden Woo Gallery, London

2017

“Alison Britton: Fieldwork”, Galleri Format, Oslo

2016

“Alison Britton: Content and Form”, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

2012

“Life and Still Life”, Crafts Study Centre, UCA Farnham
“Standing and Running”, Marsden Woo Gallery, London

2005

“Alison Britton New Work and the Ed Wolf Collection of Alison Britton Pots”, Barrett Marsden Gallery, London

2003

“Alison Britton New Ceramics”, Barrett Marsden Gallery, London

2001

“Alison Britton, Oeuvres Récentes”, Galerie DM Sarver, Paris

1996

Alison Britton”, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, Australia and toured museums in Canberra, Brisbane and Perth

1995

“Form and Fiction”, Marianne Heller Galerie, Sandhausen

1990

“Alison Britton - A Retrospective”, Two year tour organised by Aberystwyth Arts Centre, touring to Newport Museum, Aberdeen Museum, Carlisle Museum, Stoke on Trent, Cardiff Museum, York Museum, and Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Holland
“Alison Britton”, Contemporary Applied Arts, London

1988

“Ceramics by Alison Britton”, Crafts Council of New South Wales, Sydney

1987

“Alison Britton, New Ceramics”, Contemporary Applied Arts, London

1985

“Ceramics: Alison Britton”, Miharudo Gallery, Tokyo

1979

“The Work of Alison Britton”, Crafts Council, London

2023

“New Areas: Contemporary Ceramics at Walmer Yard” Walmer Yard, London
“New Areas: Contemporary Ceramics at Newstead Abbey” Newstead Abbey, Nottingham

2021

"Cracked", Tristan Hoare, London
“Maker’s Eye”, Crafts Council Gallery, London
The Arts Club, London
“Pioneering Women”, Oxford Ceramics Gallery, Oxford
“British Studio Ceramic”, Messums Wiltshire, Salisbury

2019

“An Idea Needing to be Made: Contemporary Ceramics”, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Victoria, Australia

2018

"Alison Britton (UK) + Misha Stroj (AT)", Stereo Exchange, Copenhagen
“Contenu/Contained”, Musée Ariana, Geneva

2017

“Woman’s Hour Craft Prize”, V&A Museum, London, and UK tour
“The Social Life of Things”, Corvi-Mora, London
"Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery”, Yale Center for British Art,
Newhaven, Connecticut, and Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

2016

“Kneaded Knowledge, The Language of Ceramics”, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria, and
National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic
“Vase: Function Reviewed”, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny

2015

“Many a Slip”, Marsden Woo Gallery, London

2014

“Cut and Run”, Marsden Woo Gallery, London
“The Ceramic Object”, Galleri Format, Oslo

2013

“Cheongju International Craft Biennale”, Cheongju

2012

“Libertés, Affinités”, Galerie 19 Rue Paul Fort, Paris

2009

“Unforeseen Events”, Marsden Woo Gallery, London (with Marit Tingleff)

2007

“END”, The Danish Museum of Art and Design, Copenhagen; Bomuldsfabriken
Kunsthall, Arendal
“Containing”, Barrett Marsden Gallery, London

2005

“Transformations, the Language of Craft”, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

2003

“British Ceramics: Five Artists”, Frank Lloyd Gallery at LA International

2002

“Key Figures of Modern Ceramics, Alison Britton and Gordon Baldwin”, Deutsch
Amerikanischen Institut, Heidelberg

2001

“Jerwood Prize for Applied Arts: Ceramics”, Crafts Council, London

2000

“Firing Imagination”, British Council tour of British Ceramics to Brazil
“Britisk Keramik”, Keramikmuseet Grimmerhus, Denmark

1999

“541 Vases, Pots, Sculptures and Services”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
“British Ceramics at Galerie Binnen”, Amsterdam, Barrett Marsden Gallery with Galerie Binnen, Amsterdam
“Constructions: Ceramics and the Memory of Architecture”, Marianne Heller Gallery, Heidelberg

1998

“British Ceramics from 1950 to the present”, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam

1997

“Oeuvres Récentes”, Gordon Baldwin, Alison Britton, Galerie Sarver, Paris

1996

“The British Are Coming”, Indigo Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
“Das Andere Gefass, Saarlandisches Kunstlerhaus, Saarbrucken, Germany
“Objects of our Time”, Crafts Council, London, and tour

1993

“The Raw and the Cooked: New Work in Clay in Britain”, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, and tour to Barbican Art Gallery, London; Taiwan Museum; Swansea Museum; Shigaraki Ceramic Sculpture Park, Japan; Musée d'Art Contemporain de Dunkerque, France

1990

“Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, and Their Pupils”, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich

1988

“Contemporary British Crafts”, National Museums of Modern Art, Kyoto, and Tokyo
Galerie Het Kapelhuis, Amersfoort

1987

“The Vessel”, Serpentine Gallery, London
“Our Domestic Landscape”, Cornerhouse, Manchester

1985

“Fast Forward: New Directions in British Ceramics”, ICA Gallery, London
“British Ceramics”, Kruithaus Museum, Den Bosch, Holland

1984

“British Ceramics”, British Council exhibition touring Czechoslovakia

1983

“Fifty-Five Pots”, Orchard Gallery, Londonderry

1982

“The Maker's Eye”, Crafts Council, London

1980

“Ceramics, Alison Britton and Jacqueline Poncelet”, Galerie Het Kapelhuis, Amersfoort, and Kruithaus Museum, Den Bosch, Holland

2013

“Seeing Things, Collected Writing on Art, Craft and Design”, London, Occasional Papers

2019

'A View from Afar', essay in Prue Venables' catalogue, Living Treasures, Masters of Australian Craft series

2018

Catalogue essay 'Slip-sliding narrative and evolving form in Philip Eglin’s new works
'The Maker's Eye' statement, CC catalogue1981, republished in ‘Craft’, Ed.Tanya Harrod, Documents of Contemporary Art series, Whitechapel Gallery
Essay ‘The Sumptuous Appeal of the Tactile’ in Angus Suttie, catalogue, Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales

2017

Preface, ‘Circling’, in Yale Center for British Art exhibition catalogue, ‘Things of Beauty Growing, British Studio Pottery’

2016

Chapter: ‘Curiosity and Speculation’ in book: KAREN BENNICKE - Spatial Destabilization, Strandberg Publishing, 2016, Denmark
‘Homework’, essay on Garry Fabian Miller in Making Thinking Living catalogue, Crafts Study Centre, UCA Farnham
Review of Betty Woodman’s ICA exhibition Theatre of the Domestic in The Burlington Magazine, May issue
Round table discussion on the role of ceramics in contemporary art, Frieze Magazine, May issue

2014

‘The Relation of Craft’, essay for Collect magazine, Collect art fair, Saatchi Gallery, London

2013

‘Overthrowing Tradition’ essay first published in electronic journal Interpreting Ceramics in 2002, revised and republished in the book Interpreting Ceramics, selected essays, Bath, Wunderkammer

2012

‘Things and Work’ essay in Life and Still Life catalogue, Crafts Study Centre, UCA Farnham

2019

‘The Fiction of Form’, Statement of Practice article in The Journal of Modern Craft, Vol 2.1, March

2019

“Postmodernity and Clay: Reflecting on 'The Raw and the Cooked' exhibition of 1993”, York Art Gallery, November
“Words and Things”, public lecture given at ACT Sydney and RMIT Melbourne, Australia, August

2018

“Finding Form”, Art Workers Guild, June

2016

“Thinking on Your Feet”, Peter Dormer Memorial Lecture, Gorvy Lecture Theatre RCA Battersea, November 28
“Playing on the Fence: Making, Writing, and Objects”. Lecture at Norwegian Annual
International Crafts Seminar, Galleri F-15, April

2015

“Use and Beauty: Things, Thinking, and Work”. Emmanuel Cooper Memorial Lecture:, UCA Farnham, March 5
Belfast Master Class Lecture, University of Ulster, Feb 12

2014

“Things and Work: Making, Objects, and Writing”. Henry Rothschild Memorial Lecture, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, November 20
“The Lives of Things”, Keynote lecture at Craft Scotland Conference, Edinburgh, September
“Things and Work: the Relation of Making and the Found Object”. Lecture at ‘The Ceramic Object,’ seminar: KHiO: Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway, March
“Form and Fiction”. Lecture on British ceramics, UC, Boulder Colorado, 2014

Aberdeen Museum and Art Gallery
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Canada
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe
Boymans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam
British Council Collection
Contemporary Art Society
Crafts Council, London
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Hove Museum & Art Gallery
Kunst und Gewerbe Museum, Hamburg
Kruithaus Museum, Den Bosch, Holland
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki, Japan
Musée de Sevres, Paris
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
National Museum of Wales
Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim, Norway
Pallant House, Chichester
Princessehoff Museum, Leeuwarden, Holland
Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Svenska Handelbanken, Stockholm
The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
UCW Collection, Aberystwyth
Ulster Museum, Belfast
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Wurttembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart
York City Art Gallery