Carol Margaret McNicoll (24 December 1943 – 3 March 2025) was an English studio potter whose work was mainly decorative slipcast ware, she is credited with helping to transform the British ceramics scene in the late 1970s.
[3] McNicoll was awarded a Princess of Wales Scholarship to attend Royal College of Art from 1970 to 1973,[4] where she felt women were "marginalised" and "attention went to the men who were interested in industrial ceramics".
[9] She also worked as a machinist for the fashion designer Zandra Rhodes,[10] who in 1972 commissioned her to make a unique dinner set,[11] consisting of pink coffee cups with hands for saucers.
[14] Later work was constructed from slipcast and found objects such as toy soldiers, using commercial and self made transfer decoration.
[15] McNicoll said of her work "I am entertained by making functional objects which are both richly patterned and comment on the strange world we have created for ourselves.