Rose Schmits

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Rose Schmits is a Dutch ceramics artist working in the United Kingdom. She is best known for her role in the Channel 4 reality series The Great Pottery Throw Down on which she is the kiln and firing technician. [1] [2] Schmits is from Delft and moved to the UK to study at the City & Guilds of London Art School. [3] She won the Undergraduate Prize awarded by the Artists' Collecting Society in 2018 [4] and the Artists Collecting Society Undergraduate Prize from the City & Guilds of London Art School in 2019. [5] Schmits joined the show in 2021. [6]

Schmits bases her work on the Delftware pottery technique. [7] Her work includes:

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