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Northland / Te Tai Tokerau update – Aug 24
Quarry Arts Centre, Whangarei Quarry Ceramic Awards Entries Closing Saturday 31 August All information to enter QCA24 can be found on the Quarry Arts Website. PRIZES Premier Award $1500 in cash + $800 in vouchers Sponsored by Quarry Arts Centre, Creative Northland, BotPots, Abbots Glazes Runner Up $700 in vouchers Sponsored by Primo Clay, BotPots and Kiwi Underglaze Judges Merits – 4 or 5 (Judge may combine 4&5) 1. Quarry Kiln Award – $500 use of the Quarry Arts…
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AUCKLAND Tāmaki Makaurau update – September/October 2024
Don’t forget to sign up for the national ceramics open studios event! This November 23rd/24th ceramicists around the country will open their doors to the public from 10am to 4pm. Register Here Please check venues for their Opening Event dates. Title: Ceramics Exhibitor: Jaime Jenkins & Janna van Hasselt Where: Pah Homestead When: 5 July – 8 September Title: Aotearoa Contemporary Exhibitor: An artist collective Where: Auckland Art Gallery When: 6 July – 20 October Title: EMBELLISH…
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Ceramics NZ National Open Studios 23rd & 24th November 2024
The date has been set for the national ceramics open studios event! This November 23rd/24th ceramicists around the country will open their doors to the public from 10am to 4pm. Registrations have now closed! Registrations are now open for any artists working primarily with clay in NZ. There is a $50 fee to participate which will go towards marketing and promoting the event. Last year our pilot in Wellington was very successful – we are looking…
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Canterbury & West Coast updates – July/Aug 24
The latest issue of The Canterbury potter, CPA’s quarterly newsletter. Halswell Pottery Group “A few changes are happening around the Group as we transition to streamed wheel work classes with beginner and intermediate streams and welcome a new tutor, Mark Hyslop. We are excited for August’s upcoming workshops with Fiona Tunnicliffe and Renate Galetzka, catering to both hand builders and wheel workers. Members have started firing up the gas and raku kilns (pictured) to prepare work for…
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Central North Island News July/August
At the end of June we had the world premiere of Spontaneous Combustion: Songs for Barry Brickell by Bruce Robert Foster, part of the Doc Edge Festival 2024. When the natural environment and the human imagination combine.A celebration of Barry Brickell’s legacy and the realisation of his extraordinary dream, Driving Creek Railway, a productive pottery with numerous kilns, a railway, a native bird sanctuary, and a lively creative hub drawing artists from around the globe.The film…
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Northland / Te Tai Tokerau update – July/Aug 24
Quarr Arts Centre, Whangarei The Creative CUP! THE QUARRY ARTS ANNUAL FUNDRAISER(This year’s variation on The Great Plate) Come down to the Quarry Arts Centre Friday 12 July, 5pm, for the opening of The Creative Cup. This exhibition and auction is filled with artists’ interpretations on Cups and Mugs and will marvel and delight. The Quarry is excited to be hosting one of Kwak Kyungtae’s 4 day Onggi workshop’s.
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Neil Grant 1938-2024: An Appreciation
The master craftsman is seldom a household name. Neil was known and respected among older New Zealand potters but didn’t hit the headlights in the ‘arts’ media. He was an ‘old school’ ceramicist. Craftsman first and last. Always aspiring to emulate his own masters, most of them without a name in any history books, from Ancient China, more recent Japan, talented journeymen from Medieval England or France. It was their work he loved, what they achieved…