• Wellington-Western region | Jan 2025

    steph

    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

    Ceramics Association of New Zealand

    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

    Kate Fitzharris

    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

    julie

    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

    Siriporn Falcon-Grey

    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

    marama

    Kiln Studio is for sale Potters clay Nelson Surrender to form exhibition McGlashen’s pottery business has sold

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  • 2024 AGM

    Ceramics Association of New Zealand

    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

    Kate Fitzharris

    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

    Kate Fitzharris

    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…

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  • Northland / Te Tai Tokerau update – Nov/Dec

    julie

    Quarry Arts Centre Congratulations on all participants and winners of the QCA Awards. PRIZE WINNERS and PRIZESJudges Merit 4 – $100 Voucher – Sponsored by Claybright Lans Hansen (Wellington) – “Unfurling” Judges Merit 3 – $100 voucher – Sponsored by BotPots Maak Bow (Kaiwaka) – “Cancelled” Judges Merit 2 – $300 voucher – Sponsored by…

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  • Rick Rudd Foundation – Emerging Practitioner in Clay Award 2024

    Rick Rudd Foundation – Emerging Practitioner in Clay Award 2024

    Ceramics Association of New Zealand

    Today, the Rick Rudd Foundation is pleased to announce the winner of the $15,000Emerging Practitioner in Clay Award. This award was established in 2018 by RickRudd to encourage, foster and promote those makers who have not achievednational recognition. It is limited to those makers who have been working with clayfor five years or less. Its…

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  • Nelson/Marlborough – Sept/Oct 2024

    Nelson/Marlborough – Sept/Oct 2024

    Ceramics Association of New Zealand

    Nelson Clay Week 28 Sep – 4 Oct at various venues across Nelson  www.clayweek.nz Nelson Clay Week is a celebration of pottery as a craft, an artform and an industry, with ceramicists from all over the country coming together to share ideas and techniques, and to show their work. There are talks, special events, a Potters Market, and…

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  • Dunedin Ceramics Certificate Class of 1974

    Kate Fitzharris

    Hello fellow Potters and Ceramicists! An occasion recently gave me reason to pause and reflect on my past work. It spans decades and it reminded me of the time I had enrolled in the Ceramics Certificate Course at Otago Polytechnic in 1974. That was 50 years ago! How time has passed and how pottery changed…

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  • Free Range

    Kate Fitzharris

    Free Range Curated by Cheryl Lucas & Caroline Billing 28th August – 28th September The National, Christchurch. In ‘Free Range’, 16 contemporary artists plunder the associations of the egg.  At the invitation of Cheryl Lucas, each artist in the exhibition was given 12 ceramic eggs (made by Lucas). In a concept that is equal parts…

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