Kapiti Coast

The Kilns at Te Horo

Jenn Leov has taken up a short-term Residency at The Kilns at Te Horo through to the end of June 2025.

Jenn is using the residency to experiment with different shapes and methods and “a lot of loose work on the wheel”. She is also digging into Mirek Smíšek’s slip recipes and the notes left by previous resident Thomas Baker. “I’ve been incorporating local materials, like pumice from Paekākāriki beach. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a while,” Jenn says.

Jenn will conduct a one-day workshop on hand-building sculptural flower crowns on Sunday 1 June and a weekend exhibition at The Kilns on 21-22 June. For workshop details email  thekilnsattehoro@gmail.com

Three potters from the South Island collaborated with Jenn for a firing of The Kilns’ Hautere brick soda/salt kiln at Easter.

Tessa Chisholm (left) from Christchurch, Mary Ellen Childers from Tasman and Coralie Winn from Lyttelton unload the Hautere Kiln with The Kilns Resident Potter Jenn Keov (right).  

Next month The Mirek Smíšek Arts Trust will open applications for the Residencies at The Kilns in 2026/27.  

Jenn Leov Workshop | Resident potter at The Kilns at Te Horo

Whanganui

Whanganui Potters Studio

Teapot workshop 
Sat-Sun 10th – 11th May, 10 – 3pm with Fiona

Wheel: https://www.whanganuipotters.com/service-page/teapot-making-with-fiona-wheel-option

Hand building: https://www.whanganuipotters.com/service-page/teapot-making-with-fiona-hand-building

Whanganui Potters Studio [WPS] Annual Exhibition

12th – 22nd Jun, 10 – 4pm

https://www.whanganuipotters.com/event-details/annual-exhibition-2025

Public raku | Sat 28 June, Whanganui Potters Studio

https://www.whanganuipotters.com/event-details/public-raku-june

Te Whare o Rehua | Sarjeant Gallery

Exhibition | Paul Maseyk: Jugs in New Zealand Painting / 1 March – 22 June 2025

This exhibition combines two of artist Paul Maseyk’s loves: paintings and jugs. A few years ago, Maseyk began a project deep diving into paintings by artists from Aotearoa New Zealand who depicted the humble jug in their work. In response, Maseyk has made over 60 jugs modelled from these paintings. He found the source imagery in books, searching collections online, magazines, auction catalogues, the internet and in person. Jugs in New Zealand Painting brings together many of these works, from public and private collections, and places them alongside their jug offspring. See more here https://sarjeant.org.nz/gallery/paul-maseyk-jugs-in-new-zealand-painting-1-march-22-june/

Image credits: Sarjeant Gallery.