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Central North Island Mar/Apr 2025
Driving Creek Pottery The Search for an Apprentice Kia ora from Driving Creek Pottery. We have some very exciting news to share with the clay community this month: we are searching for an apprentice to join the production pottery team! Two years ago, Cornish production potter Callum Trudgeon traded The Leach Pottery for Driving Creek.…
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Northland / Te Tai Tokerau Mar – Apr 25
KeriKeri TAUS Ceramics, Waipapa Kerikeri Tim Grocott at Taus Ceramics offers mould making workshops, dates are already up on the website. Website address in the flyer below. Congratulations to Rosie and Rich, Northland ceramic artists as one of the finalists in MMCA 2025 Title: DUSK Terracotta, underglaze, glaze + gold lustre H 720 x W…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Otago / Southland Jan / Feb 2025
OTAGO POTTERS GROUP will be at the George Street Market in Dunedin on February 8th, 10 am – 4pm. This will be a great opportunity to buy some pottery and also ask about the club if you are thinking of joining! WAKATIPU POTTERS are hosting two workshops in February with Wellington based Spanish sculptor Javier…
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Northland / Te Tai Tokerau update – Jan 2025
Quarry Arts Centre, Whangarei You can Study Tertiary-level Ceramics in Northland 2025 Take your ceramics to the next level with an NZQA-approved programme with weekly hands-on studio tuition at the Quarry Arts Centre. Gain the NZ Diploma in Arts and Design (Levels 5 & 6) – Ceramics with Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic, and held at the…
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AUCKLAND Tāmaki Makaurau update – January / February 2025
Auckland Region Pottery Suppliers: Bot Pots CCG Clay Centre Glass Station Title: 小さな命が囁いている (whispers) Exhibitor: Kiki Hall Where: The Arts House Trust at Pah Homestead (Little Gallery) When: 16 October 2024 – 16 Feburary 2025 Title: Sculpture in the Gardens Exhibitor: An artist collective Where: Auckland Botanic Gardens – Huakaiwaka Indoor Gallery When: 16 November…
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Nelson Marlborough update – Jan/Feb 2025
Kiln Studio is for sale Potters clay Nelson Surrender to form exhibition McGlashen’s pottery business has sold
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2024 AGM
Register today and attend online via Teams. Please join our 2024 AGM where we will report on our 2023 activities and finances on 17 November 2024 at 6pm. The AGM is also a time when we elect Council members, set membership fees for the following year, and nominate people for lifetime membership. We want to…
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Living Room: Ōtautahi, Christchurch, November 2nd – December 15th
For the 2024 edition of Living Room, Caroline Billing and Andrea du Chatenier have curated the work of eleven artists in response to Warren’s remarkable architecture and the use for which it was designed. Drawing on our personal and cultural associations with the objects and architecture of daily life, the exhibition features work that considers how we design…
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Otago / Southland Update Nov/Dec 2024
There are lots of great shows around the motu this month! Whakawhanaukataka by Jess Nicholson: Blue Oyster, Dunedin Whakawhanaukataka is an exhibition of ceramic sculptures and installation that is attentive to how earth-materials, people and other things belong to specific places; silt carried along by a river to the shoreline, rocks that erode and tumble…
