Whitney Choi Pottery Wiki, Age, Partner, Ethnicity
Whitney Choi Biography – Whitney Choi Wiki
Whitney Choi is a Scottish potter and a contestant on The Great Pottery Throw Down 2026. He is the founder of MacChoi Pottery, a pottery store based in Glasgow, Scotland. He is a teacher of chemistry at Taylor High School in New Stevenston, Motherwell.
Whitney was 12 years old when he left his birthplace of Hong Kong for New Zealand, where he started high school before moving to Scotland in 2006. He studied forensic chemistry at the University of Strathclyde and graduated in 2010. The subsequent year, he gained a post-graduate diploma in education.
Pottery
Whitney has immersed himself in a number of solitary hobbies from a young age, including origami – the Japanese art of folding paper, which he took up as a toddler at nursery. Having also developed a passion for sewing, knitting and photography, Whitney began his pottery journey in the summer of 2021 when he signed up for the first of two five-week courses at The Craft Pottery Studio in Glasgow city centre.
Whitney gifted many of his creations from the initial course to family and friends, and kept a few pieces for himself – including small blue dipping bowls which he and his partner still use at home. The first time he made a sale was when he took a stall at the Christmas fair held at Taylor High, the school in which he teaches.
Having been persuaded by more experienced potters, as well as family and friends, that there was a commercial appetite for his products, Whitney in 2023 began to exhibit at makers’ markets, including those at Glasgow’s Merchant Square, Clydebank Shopping Centre and the iconic Browns Lane in Paisley, according to the Daily Record.
Whitney Choi Age
Great Pottery Throw Down contestant Whitney Choi was born in 1989 in Hong Kong. His Chinese name is Choi Yin Nan.
Whitney Choi Pottery Throw Down
Whitney Choi is a contestant on the ninth season of The Great Pottery Throw Down. The Channel 4 show is hosted by BAFTA-winning actress Siobhán McSweeney, alongside judges Keith Brymer Jones and Richard Miller as well as kiln technician Princess Fingall.
The potters competing to be crowned Britain’s best are Andrew, Angharad Reed, Elham, Kayleigh, Emily Hesling, Fynn Allen, Bill Rolls, Kaz Woods, Mark Burton, Naveed Khan, Olympia Walker and Whitney.
Ethnicity
He is of Chinese ethnicity.
Whitney Choi’s Instagram handle is macchoi_pottery.
