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Central North Island | July / August Updates
Driving Creek Updates: Upcoming Workshops with Shinsuke (Jackie) Iwami and Callum Trudgeon We are thrilled to announce that renowned Japanese potter Shinsuke (Jackie) Iwami will teach a 5-day course on Large Plate Making Using a Slow-Speed Pottery Wheel at Driving Creek in October. For Iwami-san, pottery is a way of exploring how to live – drawing on what’s immediately at hand, working with as little stress as possible, and sharing what he discovers with the people…
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Otago Southland July/August
NamSook Chang & Danijela Piculjan In June Dunedin School of Art Gallery presented NamSook Chang (Korea), Danijela Piculjan (Croatia) and Friends with work created during their DSA residency. NamSook Chang Danijela Piculjan Milford Galleries Queenstown: 18 July – 17 August Otago Potters Group OPG has a fabulous new website! Check it out here The Otago Potters Group Annual Exhibtion will be held at the Dunedin Community Gallery from 15 – 23 August. Join them for the…
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AUCKLAND Tāmaki Makaurau update – July / August 2026 Ceramic Events
Auckland Region Pottery Suppliers: Bot Pots CCG Clay Centre Glass Station Just recently at The Arts House Trust’s new series: In Conversation, I had the pleasure of listening to a dialogue between Sue Gardiner, the Chair of the Chartwell Charitable Trust and Peata Larkin, our esteemed judge from the 61st CNZ National Exhibition. In this new series, Larkin and Gardiner discussed the creative concepts behind Larkin’s current exhibition, Silent Kōrero. This exhibition explores two decades worth…
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Te Whanganui-a-tara | Wellington-Western region update: July-August ’26.
Kia ora members and friends of Ceramics New Zealand First, I want to celebrate and acknowledge the work and contribution of uku artist, Baye Riddell, recently recognised in the 2026 King’s Birthday Honours – Baye Riddell, ONZM, for services to Māori clay art. Baye Riddell (Ngāti Porou and Te Whānau-a-Ruataupare) became a full-time potter in 1974, the first Māori artist to commit to this profession. In 1986, with Manos Nathan, he was a co-founder of Ngā…
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Te Tai Tokerau/ Northland July/Aug 26
Taus Ceramics – Kerikeri Next weekend I’ll be running my first ‘Fun With Plaster’ workshop. Students will make and modify simple tile moulds. They’ll learn about pouring plaster as well as using press moulds to make tiles and sprigs. www.taus.co.nz/workshops#funwithplaster I will also be running a two day mould making course at Driving Creek in Coromandel on the 4th and 5th of July. Info HERE. Quarry Arts Centre- Whangarei The firing of Manawa has been completed, however…
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Welcome Josh Jones!
At our AGM in November 2025 we elected 3 new Regional Council Members – including Joshua Jones for Nelson Marlborough. Josh is the co-owner of McGlashen Pottery, with his partner Coral. They have a ginger cat named Coriander and are loving being involved in a creative way with clay everyday. With a background in sales as well as film & television Josh loves the face to face experiences he gets in their Brightwater studio, meeting people…
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Nelson/Marlborough May & June News
Two Icons of Nelson’s Craft & Clay Movement Tell Their Stories On Thursday, 30th April, Christopher Vine and Royce McGlashen gave a special presentation for the Nelson Science Society. Christopher Vine spoke first, in a perfectly balanced presentation – the beautiful recounting of his own path to New Zealand and into Clay upon arriving here in the mid 1960s. A Cambridge educated architect, Mr Vine explained the unique relationship he had with the Craft movement which…