Orla Brennick | Official Website

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The Official Home of Orla Brennick

This is the official website of Orla Brennick, the studio potter behind Brennick Clay, known as @brennickclay on Instagram, Patreon and YouTube (as @BrennickClay) and as @orla.brennick on TikTok. She is based in Galway, Ireland, where she makes wheel-thrown, reduction-fired stoneware and is known for her slow, unedited wheel-throwing videos.

If you found an account using her name and you're not sure whether it's really her, you are in exactly the right place. Read the full biography, follow the timeline, learn how to check an account, or go straight to the complete list of her real accounts.

Orla Brennick in her studio, holding a lump of clay

About Her

Thirty-six Mugs a Morning, One Gas Kiln

Orla makes everyday stoneware: mugs, bowls, plates and the occasional big jar, thrown on the wheel in a shared studio on the edge of Galway and fired in a gas kiln to around 1,300°C.

Her videos are the opposite of a highlight reel. No music, no jump cuts: forty minutes of the same mug thrown twelve times, mistakes included. Her glazes come out of reduction firing, which is why no two kiln loads look quite alike.

She started with a ten-week evening class in 2019 and has weighed every ball of mug clay to 420 grams since 2021. One still comes out at 426, every time.

Based

Galway

Age

31

Known for

Slow wheel-throwing videos

Main platform

Instagram

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People Are Selling Pots I Never Made

Since February 2026 I have found eleven accounts pretending to be me: seven on Instagram, four on TikTok. Most add "shop", "studio" or "official" to my handle, copy my kiln-opening photos, and take bank transfers for pots that do not exist. Seven are gone. I never sell through DMs, and I have no shop account.

This website is the only source I control. If an account isn't listed on my official links page, it is not me, no matter whose pots are on it.

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Latest Writing

Orla Brennick working at the long table in her bright studio

21 October 2026 · The Work

Why Every Mug Starts as 420 Grams of Clay

Every mug I make begins on the scale, not the wheel: what weighing clay to the gram settles before the wheel turns, where the 420 grams go, and when I ignore the number.

What Reduction Firing Actually Does to a Glaze

On firing days I starve a gas kiln of oxygen on purpose. What that does to iron and copper, why my celadon only exists because of it, and why no two firings match.

Drying Pots in a City That Is Never Dry

Why a board of bowls can take a week to firm up in a Galway March, why slow drying is mostly kind to pots, and the plastic collars, damp cupboard and radiator that keep my handles on.