• Central North Island | July / August Updates

    Frances Martin

    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 –…

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  • Otago Southland July/August

    Kate Fitzharris

    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…

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  • AUCKLAND Tāmaki Makaurau update – July / August 2026 Ceramic Events

    Siriporn Falcon-Grey

    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…

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  • Te Whanganui-a-tara | Wellington-Western region update: July-August ’26.

    steph

    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…

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  • Te Tai Tokerau/ Northland July/Aug 26

    julie

    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…

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  • Welcome Josh Jones!

    Ceramics Association of New Zealand

    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…

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  • Nelson/Marlborough May & June News

    Josh Jones

    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…

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  • Te Tai Tokerau/ Northland May/Jun 26

    julie

    Quarry Arts Centre- Whangarei Quarry Ceramic Awards – This April our main gallery space has been filled with an incredible and diverse collection of ceramic arts for the Quarry Ceramic Awards. A massive thank you to all who attended our opening night and had the gallery bursting at the seams! 49 incredible finalist works from…

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  • Canterbury & West Coast – May/June Update

    Ceramics Association of New Zealand

    Jess Nicholson: Ka maumahara te uku (the clay remembers) Clay remembers being pounded flat or rolled into a ball, in the same way that it remembers being the basalt rocks of a mighty mauka or the silt swept along the bottom of a braided awa. 11.04.26 – 17.05.26 In this solo exhibition, Nicholson continues to…

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  • Global networks update – May/June 2026

    Ceramics Association of New Zealand

    Greetings from Oslo, Norway. My name is Karin Amdal, I have taken over the baton from Graham Hay as the global rep for Ceramics NZ. I have a background as an art director and designer, did my DCA in 2017/18 and have worked full time with clay since 2019 (you can see my work here).…

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  • AUCKLAND Tāmaki Makaurau update – May / June 2026 Ceramic Events

    Siriporn Falcon-Grey

    Auckland Region Pottery Suppliers: Bot Pots CCG Clay Centre Glass Station Auckland Studio Potters recently had their AGM. The 2026 committee is now made up of Mervyn Aitchison (President), Steve Greer (Vice President), Pennie Black (Co-Secretary), Louise Garbett (Co-Secretary), Paul McElwee (Treasurer), Steve Aitken, Diane Allen, Jacqueline Kampen, Richard Penn, Bex Plowman, Izzy Santiago, and…

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  • Otago/Southland May/June 2026

    Kate Fitzharris

    We are blessed with so much ceramic activity in Ōtepoti/Dunedin this autumn!  Nam Sook Chang, TransCultural Experience Dunedin School of Art Lunchtime Seminar presents Korean Artist Nam Sook Chang, TransCultural Experience Thursday May 7th 12-1pm. Dunedin School of Art, Lecture Room P152, 19 Riego Street, Dunedin ‘My work explores “TransCultural Experience,” reflecting my journey across identities, places…

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  • Central North Island | May / June Updates

    Frances Martin

    Updates from DCR: Off The Rails Exhibition With the arrival of autumn, Driving Creek shakes off the summer fire ban and all the potters get very excited, as the smell of wood smoke returns to the air! The pottery team kicked off the first of the wood firings this year with a group firing in…

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  • Wellington Western region | Te Whanganui-a-tara May-June update

    steph

    Kia ora koutou Welcome to your regional news update. Over the coming two months we can look forward to an exhibition of residency works by Shigemitsu Ohara at Toi Mahara Gallery Waikanae; Star Glaze Matariki event at Ōtaki Pottery Club, and a clay workshop with Sydney-based artist, Alana Wilson at The Kilns at Te Horo.…

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