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AUCKLAND Tāmaki Makaurau update – March / April 2025
Auckland Region Pottery Suppliers: Bot Pots CCG Clay Centre Glass Station Please check venues for Opening Event dates. Title: Sculpture in the Gardens Exhibitor: An artist collective Where: Auckland Botanic Gardens – Huakaiwaka Indoor Gallery When: 16 November 2024 – 2 March 2025 Title: Pushing Parallels Exhibitor: An artist collective Where: The Arts House Trust at Pah Homestead (Little Gallery) When: 28 November 2024 – 9 March 2025 Title: Studio D3: Momentum Exhibitor: An artist collective…
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Wellington – Western region | March 2025
Te Horo: Thomas Baker, Resident Artist at The Kilns at Te Horo. The Residency at The Kilns at Te Horo has let Thomas Baker “play”. That is his term for generating his ongoing excitement about working with clay andwhere it leads. The six-month residency at Mirek Smíšek’s former pottery on the Kāpiti coast hasallowed him to make some good steps forward. “I have resolved a few older ideas,explored new thoughts I’ve been sitting on, and found…
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Wellington-Western region | Jan 2025
The Kilns at Te Horo has just completed its first year having opened in Dec 2023. This unique location featuring Mirek Smisek restored bee-hive kilns has a Heritage NZ listing. Currently, the fourth artist in residence Thomas Baker of Nelson is working in the Blumhardt Studio until the end March 2025. The next three residences through to April 2026 have been appointed (and are soon to be announced). Several successful exhibitions and events have taken place over the past…
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Global Networks updates Jan/Feb 2025
Thinking of visiting the US in 2025? Visit the largest ceramic gathering of clay lovers! Demonstrations, talks, exhibitions, clay film festival, huge trade displays of tools, books, kilns, you name it! NCECA’s 59th Annual Conference, will be in Salt Lake City, Utah, March 26-29, 2025. Early bird registration pricing ends on February 4, 2025. Details at https://nceca.net/ Copy of articles from the latest Pyre, an newsletter from the Ceramic Art Association of Western Australia Early Bird…
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Canterbury & West Coast updates – Jan/Feb 2025
Just a short contribution from Canterbury Potters We finished off a very busy year with our annual exhibition at the Canterbury museum pop up gallery – CoCA in November. Our guest selector, Rob Cloughly from Otago Polytech submitted some of his very complex and unique work to include in the exhibition. He also delivered the last workshop of the year. The event was very well attended and we had our largest ever number of entries from our…
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Remembering Frederika Ernsten
One of Ceramics New Zealand’s Honorary Lifetime Members Frederika Ernsten passed away in September 2024. Born November 12, 1936; died September 14, 2024 Thanks to The Press for a comprehensive obituary of Frederika which you can read on their website. They describe her as ‘the mother of Canterbury pottery’. Ceramics New Zealand member Jane McCulla sent us through some of her memories of Frederika. On a personal level, I really valued her encouragement to get involved…
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Welcome Judy Chappell!
Judy is our new Regional Council member for the Central North Island – this includes Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Gisborne, and Hawke’s Bay. Aside from high school art class, I first touched clay relatively late in life, in late 2019, at one of Laurie Steer’s Saturday workshops, and loved it! The Bethlehem Pottery Club’s handbuilding workshop (with the incredible Suzanne Sturrock) was a natural progression from there and I’ve been a hobby handbuilder since then, working from my dining table at first…