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The studio is closed to BPC members:
The club runs a members’ club night on Tuesdays, 5.30-8.30pm.
If anyone needs help or has questions, there will be someone there to help.
Please note prices are GST inclusive and are for non-members. Clay prices and stock varies depending on current availability and the prices listed are for the most popular clays.
To buy clay call into the club on a Tuesday or Thursday club day, otherwise contact one of the members listed below to arrange an alternative day/time.
Lynda: 021 803 704
Cat: 021 163 7540
Juliet: 0212711433
Colleen: 021435330
Jules: 0274166192
BPC members may be interested in a group show which could be themed such as an all mug show.
There is a fee of $300 to exhibit in the space for a period of 3 weeks. This is to cover the rent and any exhibition installation costs. The Incubator takes a 15% commission on any sales for the duration of the exhibition.
If anyone is interested in a show in the Pothouse, complete the exhibition form: Exhibition Nitty Gritty | the-incubator (theincubator.co.nz)
For further details email the Gallery and Exhibition Coordinator, Kalou exhibitions@theincubator.co.nz
Te Uru is delighted to present the Portage Ceramic Awards 2022-3. This annual award provides a vital platform to showcase the diversity of contemporary clay practices in Aotearoa.
The 2022 awards had a two-stage process overseen by this year’s judge. An initial shortlist of works was selected by the judge from submitted images. This year’s judge, Karl Chitham, Director of the Dowse Art Museum, selected the exhibiting works and award winners.
Portage Ceramic Awards Facebook page.
Finalists: Stephen Aitken, Leigh Anderton-Hall, Greg Barron, Heath Bell, Maak Bow, Annette Bull, Oliver Cain, Peter Collis, Anna Crichton, Rosie Parsonson & Richard Darbyshire, Rod Davies, Peter Derksen, Mel Ford, Mandy Gargiulo, Evelyn Hodowany, Tracy Keith, Yueh Luo, Paul Maseyk, Kylie Matheson, John Parker, Richard Penn, Helen Perrett, Teresa Peters, Elena Renker, Rick Rudd, Takaaki Sakaguchi, Sylvia Sinel, Janna van Hasselt, Dorothy Waetford and Pip Woods.
Awards:
The Premier Portage Ceramic Award for 2022 was awarded to Richard Penn for Artefacts.
Second prize: Helen Perrett for No space in my head.
Merit awards: Evelyn Hodowany for 12 pack #1 “I can’t spare a square”; Elena Renker for Three tea bowls and Dorothy Waetford for AO and HR.
Portage Ceramics Awards exhibition, Te Uru, Titirangi: 26 November, 2022 – 5 March, 2023
Taradale Pottery Club has been at Waiohiki Arts Village since 2008. On Monday 13 February 2023, Cyclone Gabrielle ripped through the Arts Village bringing a torrent of silt, debris and water with it.
Our awesome clubrooms were inundated with filthy water which swamped our space submerging our pottery wheels, electric kilns and key equipment. The big community woodfire kiln was also badly affected.
As the clean-up starts we are keen to rebuild our clubrooms, which is a vital part of the Waiohiki Arts Village home to several Hawkes Bay Artists as well as the Pottery Club. This will take time, effort and money. We have a little insurance but not enough to replace everything.
John Gisborne is one of the potters affected as he and his partner have been living and working at Waiohiki Arts Village for 20 years. Not only did the flood water and silt decimate his studio, it inundated his home as well. He lives in his bus with his partner Corrine behind his studio which was flooded up to the windows.
Check out Give a little pages if you would like to help.
My practice in the UK is mainly with functional ceramics fired in an electric kiln (i.e., in oxidation). I came to ASP keen to experiment with NZ clays and fired in reduction (gas kiln/wood-fired kiln). Most of the pots on display are a result of mixing different clays, varying the proportions but applying the same glazes. Sometimes the difference in surface is subtle and sometimes dramatic. I always leave some of the exterior unglazed to show off the fired clay colour. My time as artist in residence at Auckland Studio Potters has allowed me to experiment with new forms and make larger pieces.
Auckland Studio Potters
John Parker is one of the leading studio potters in New Zealand. His long involvement with the New Zealand ceramics community began with his completion of a Master of Arts (ceramics) from the Royal College in London. He is one of the few local potters to hold formal training in his area, and this period – during which he was heavily influenced by European artists Lucie Rie and Han Coper – gave him a strong foundation for the disciplined and intelligent style for which he is now recognised.
“My aesthetic is of the stark and the industrial via the design concepts of science fiction cinema. My concerns are with finish and control and the infinite possibilities of severe minimalism of form and construction.” He strives to create the perfect shape, decorated with geometric grooves applied with flawless precision. These objects are devoid of the ‘makers touch’ which identifies most studio ceramics, yet they are handmade with every detail and mark attended to by the artist.
Recently Parker has extended this series to a number of more experimental, project-based series. He has been developing a series of built-up and interlocked paperclay works, more sculptural than functional, which add a further dimension to Parker’s artistic practice.
Parker’s work is widely collected within New Zealand and is held in major public and private collections. This talented man is also recognised as one of New Zealand’s leading theatre designers and is well known as a writer and teacher.
Masterworks Gallery
Auckland
Anneke Borren has been passionate about pottery since the age of 12. In her early career she worked as an artist potter at the Delft-Blue factory in Delft and later she was to take up ceramics and glass studies at the Konstindustry Skolan in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Anneke’s work can been seen in all major museums nation-wide. It is featured in New Zealand Embassy collections around the world, as well as in countless private collections. She has shown work in the US and Canada and has exhibited in the South Pacific, Australia and Europe. Anneke’s work also features in mayoral collections in Vancouver, Taipei, Yixing (China), Washington DC and Wellington.
Anneke has collaborated with Caitlin Moloney who is an Australian born multidisciplinary artist to present the Two Birds exhibition. Caitlin is best known as a ceramics artist working with line and pattern. She arrived at Driving Creek Railway and Potteries in 2005, where she began her pottery journey.
Caitlin has decorated a selection of Anneke’s striking ceramic forms in a clay slurry tinted with intense cobalt blues, cadmium yellows and graphic black and white.
Each pot takes up to two weeks to paint, with intricate geometric motifs echoing the marks of myriad cultures.
Two Birds
Driving Creek Railway & Potteries
Coromandel Town
Diane Caton and Anett Pilz are showing their ceramics at Driving Creek Railway & Potteries following the Two Birds exhibition. The five elements fire, earth, air, metal and water make up the show, Elementa5. Di and Anett have the elements fire and earth for their ceramic pieces. Both are both BPC members so do go along and support them.
This exhibition also includes works by Whitianga based artists, Peter Augustin and Verena Tagmann (painting and printmaking) and Peter Muller (photography and jewellery). Peter Augustin’s element is air while Peter Muller’s is metal and Verena has the element water.
Elementa 5
Driving Creek Railway & Potteries
Coromandel Town
