Current and Upcoming exhibitions

2023

The Best Design of the Year - FAD Art Prize - 5 Oct-7 Jan - Design Museum - Barcelona - Spain

2024

La Rajoleta - Ceramics Museum - Esplugues de Llobregat - Barcelona - Spain

Past Exhibitions

2023

Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Prize - 3-8 Oct - 67 York Street Gallery - London - UK

Collect Art Fair - 3-5 March (Previews 1-2 March) 2023 - Somerset House - London - UK

2022

Associació Ceramistes de Catalunya - 25th October-30th November 2022 - Barcelona - Spain

Solo show at CERCO - International Contemporary Ceramics Festival - 21st Sept-6th Nov - Zaragoza - Spain

International Ceramic Triennial Art Andenne - May-June 2022 - Belgium

CERCO - International Contemporary Ceramics Prize - touring exhibition - Teruel Museum - 8th April-8th May 2022 - Teruel - Spain

2021

CERCO - International Contemporary Ceramics Prize - touring exhibition - Teruel Museum - Spain- dates TBC

International Ceramics Biennial of Esplugues Angelina Alós - 28th Oct-16th Jan 2022 - Barcelona - Spain

CERCO - International Contemporary Ceramics Prize - 24th Sept-31st Oct - Zaragoza - Spain

2020

Bath Society of Artists Annual Open Exhibition - 2nd November - 3rd Jan 2021 - Bath

Prize Exhibition - Royal Birmingham Society of Artists - 8 October- 16th January 2021 - Birmingham

Emergent Vision - Exhibition curated by Uncovered Collective at Safe House 1&2 - 2nd-4th October 2020 - London

CO(pe)VID 19 archive - Online exhibition of work made during isolation - https://www.2msquared.net/contact

Fronteerlockdown - Online exhibition

2019

Cluster Crafts - 6th-10th November 2019 - London

Puls Contemporary Ceramics - 19th Sept - 26th October 2019 - Brussels

London Design Festival - MINT gallery - 14th - 30th September 2019 - London

One Year In - New Designers - 26-29 June 2019 - London

Wells Art Contemporary Awards - 20 July-11 Aug 2019 - Wells Cathedral

2018

RELIC - exhibition curated by Rebecca Gouldson - Bluecoat Display Centre - Liverpool

Invited artist to show during Open Studios - Cockpit Arts - London

Summer show - Candid Arts Trust - London

Rising Stars - New Ashgate Gallery - Farnham

2017

The Artist Within, Branching Out - Exhibition In the context of The 57th International Art Exhibition - Venice

New Designers - London 

Candid Arts Trust - London  

2016

These Walls Must Fall - London

Art Residency

Leach 100 Porthmeor Residency - Art Residency as part of the Leach centenary - December 2020 - St Ives

Prizes and Awards

2023 - Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Prize - London - UK

- Shortlisted for the Brookfield Art Properties Craft Award - London - UK

2021 - First Prize - International Contemporary Ceramics Prize - Zaragoza - Spain

2021 - Pujo I Bausis Prize - International Ceramics Biennial of Esplugues Angelina Alós - Barcelona - Spain

2019 - Shortlisted for the Wells Art Contemporary Awards - UK

2017 - Nominated as One to Watch emerging artist by the Crafts Council UK Creative Director - UK

2017 - Nominee for the Crafts Design Award

Collections

Asociación de Artesanos de Aragón-Permanent collection-Zaragoza-Spain

Can Tinturé Ceramics Museum – Permanent collection – Barcelona – Spain

Private collections worldwide

Press/Publication

Financial Times - The Gloopy, the bulky and the ugly - and you thought ceramics were delicate - Victoria Woodcock - April 2023

The Familiar, Found and Improvised – Ashley Thorpe - Exhibition Catalogue for Collect Art Fair 2023

Terrart - Magazine for contemporary ceramics (Spain) - PostCreacions - Ana Pujades - 2023

Ceramics Now - Anne-Laure Cano: Ussade. Esssay by Ashley Thorpe author of ‘Contemporary British Ceramics: Beneath the Surface’ - 2022

https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artworks/anne-laure-cano-ussade-2022/

The Ceramics Bible - edition 2 - Louisa Taylor -2022

Bailey, Paul, ‘One Year In’. Emerging Potters magazine.

Chandler, Barbara, ‘New Designers 2019:London show at the Business Design Centre showcases top new talent from UK design schools’. The Evening Standard.

Sims, Emma, ‘London Creative Network featured artist – Anne-Laure Cano’, Cockpit Arts.

Experiences

2020-2021 - freelance Talent Development Programme Facilitator - Crafts Council UK

2019 - Lecture for the ceramics course students - Ceramics Diploma - City Lit college - London

2014 - 2019 - Talent Development Coordinator: Crafts Council UK

2018 - now - Visual Arts Coach

2017 - Lecture for Irthi - Sharjah - United Arab Emirates

Education

2020 Project Planning for Artist by A3 project. A programme supported by the Arts Council UK

2018 - Visual Arts Coach - recipient of a-n bursary - Visual Arts Coaching Course with RD1st - accredited in June 2018

2018 - LCN - Development programme for artists in London funded by the European Regional Development Fund 

2017 - Ceramics Diploma - City Lit London - Studied under, Annie Turner, Sara Radstone, Robert Cooper, Jim Gladwin, Kate Wickham