Artist’s Biography
Bex completed art foundation before studying textiles and film in London in the nineties. Following time spent writing exhibition reviews and living in Berlin and Denmark she trained as a psychotherapist and worked as photographer and illustrator.
Returning to art education via ceramics in 2015 she went on to complete various experimental ceramics courses at City Lit London between in 2022. Since then Bex has has taken part in Artists Residencies and regular group shows in the UK and Internationally and has developed a ceramic practise which integrates her psychotherapeutic and artistic interests; focussing on an exploration of maternal/material heritage, connection to ancestral lands and culture and the use of ‘wild’ or foraged clay to create imagine artefacts embodying the genius loci of specific geographies.
Orkney Fin Folk Tokens, Bex Guthrie 2024
Eyemouth, Berwickshire, 2024
Birsay Bay, Orkney 2023
Cellardyke, Fife 2025
Selected Residencies and Exhibitions
2022
City Lit Ceramics Ceramics Department Exhibition,
City Lit Gallery, London
March 2022
2023
Artists Residency Linkhouse, Birsay
Pier Arts Centre, Orkney
April 2023
A Mixture o’ Mercies / objects found and fabricated in/from Birsay, Orkney
Tabletop Museum
Art Workers Guild, London
September 2023
Birsay Cup and Dish
(Stoneware and Orkney Clay)
'Thrown Contemporary' Ceramic Gallery London
Group Exhibition
November 2023
2024
Boreas Domas, Mare Amicus A pair of Orkney clay vessels
Featured in “Days Between Weathers”
Artists Book by Scott Mason ISBN-10: 0992983851
February 2024
Birsay Vessels
(Porcelain and Orkney Clay)
Atelier by The Sea Gallery, Brighton.
Summer Open
August 2024
Birsay Quaichs I and II and Relational Vessels I and II
(Stoneware and Orkney Clay)
Townhouse Gallery, Spitalfields London
Annual Open.
July 2024
Press Home; Objects found and fabricated in / from Eyemouth, Scotland
Eyemouth Clay
Tabletop Museum
Art Workers Guild, London
October 2024
2025
Hurkur Liddded Vessel
(Porcelain and Eyemouth Clay)
'What Holds' Group Exhibition
Vessels and Sticks Ceramics Gallery, Toronto
(reviewed in 'Ceramics Now' Magazine, Issue 14 October 2025)