Welcome to Oh Precious Cargo!

Hello! My name is Rose and I live in Manchester, UK. I have always loved pottery and longed to be a ceramist. I started doing ceramics in March of 2024 at the Peckham Adults College in London where I enrolled on 12 week course. I had a 5 month old baby and going to my weekly ceramics course gave me the space to process the birth of my baby and the profound wonder that had entered my life. When the course finished, we moved to Manchester where I had previously lived for 8 years. I started another 6 week course at 7 Limes and then joined Joe Hartley’s Studio in Yellow Hammer Stockport. In the last month I have moved to Clay Community Studios in Stretford where I currently make my ceramics!

Why ‘Oh Precious Cargo’?

While waiting on the bridge outside my friends coffee shop Grapefruit in Sale, I cooed to my baby as I rocked her back and forth to sleep in her sling. During this time two women walked past and said to me ‘oh precious cargo’. This phrase stayed with me and it became the name for a Zine workshop I run and now my ceramics.