Vicky Lindo and her partner, Bill Brookes, have been making ceramics together since 2013, working from their studio in Bideford, Devon. The couple’s work draws on subjects as diverse as classical mythology, history, the natural world, and even politics, as well as their own day-to-day lives. They are inspired by traditional English slipware pottery with images that Vicky describes as, ‘anything from a funny story heard on the radio, heroic animals, a pattern on an antique rug or a beautiful old tree in the local park.’ Vicky studied Textiles at Herefordshire College of Art & Design and discovered a love of sgraffito pottery after she was inspired by a collection of North Devon slipware housed in the museum where she worked in Bideford. They work together on making forms which Bill will produce a plaster mould from, Bill then casts the shapes and while the clay is still wet Vicky will apply her design with sgraffito decoration , It is then fired overglazed and fired again. In 2019, Vicky and Bill won the BCB Award for Dead Dad Book, which took the form of twelve large-form vessels which told the moving story of Vicky’s father, who came to Britain as part of the Windrush Generation, and explored the themes of migration, racism and identity. This body of work was acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.