The studio is closed to BPC members:
The club is trialling a members club night on Tuesdays, 5.30-8.30pm.
The aim is to get new and older members coming along so that 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
The Incubator Creative Hub is looking for great potters to show in their new Pot House Gallery.
The vision for The Pot House is to be a space in Tauranga that elevates Pottery and Ceramics as a serious contemporary, and of course traditional, artform.
The Pothouse Ceramic Gallery and Studios features:
A retail (cash and carry) ceramics gallery
The first Tauranga solo ceramic artist exhibition gallery
Ceramic Artist/ Potter working studios
A hot wheel for rentable by the hour use.
A purpose-built working workshop with high volume tabletop kiln is on its way.
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 – February, 2023
ASP are proud to introduce the eleven artists who, since its inception in 2019, through the difficult Covid years, to the first semester of 2022, feature in the inaugural AiR1 exhibition. Included artists span the full range from young graduates to traditional artisan master craftsmen to contemporary exhibiting artists and modern table and homeware specialists. Some of the artists include French potter Jean-Nicolas Gérard, Fiona Jack, John Dawson, Portage 2022 winner Richard Penn, and Iza Lozano from Mexico.
The AiR programme is keen to foster this eclectic cross-section of clay workers and recognises the value in both traditional and contemporary ceramic practices.
Auckland Studio Potters: AiR1
Pah Homestead
12 October 2022 – 12 February 2023
Read about club member Jaime Jenkins who recently featured at the Aotearoa Art Fair and now has her work shown in Jhana Millers Wellington gallery. This year Jaime was a finalist and section winner in the Miles Art Awards for her work Bell Tower (blue), 2021 — a sculpture that continues Jaime’s interest in how to create movement and sound through clay — a material that is usually motionless and silent.
The R T Nelson Sculpture Awards are valued at $20,000 with a premier prize of $15,000 rewarding creative talent and craftsmanship, and five highly commended prizes of $1000 each. A preliminary selection panel will select up to 50 finalists to be considered for the awards. The entry deadline is January 20, 2023. There is a limit of two artworks per entry and the cost is $30 for one artwork, and $60 for two. The judging takes place on May 31, 2023.
Hosted by the annual NZ Art Show in Wellington, all finalist artworks will be exhibited and must be available for purchase. The award winners will be announced on 1 June and the exhibition open to the public on 2 and 3 June.
Richard T. Nelson, who is an avid art collector and philanthropist, instigated the R T Nelson Sculpture Awards in 2021. His aim is to reward technique and true craftsmanship. Richard, who is originally from the USA, has lived in Wellington for the past 25 years.
86 artworks by 65 artists were finalists in 2022, and the judge was contemporary oil painter, Lynne Sandri. Congratulations to Lissy and Rudi Robinson-Cole for winning the $15,000 Premier Award for their works artworks Harikoa – Aroā Nukunuku and Paki – He Taonga Tuku Iho, hand carvings embellished with crocheted neon NZ wool (pictured on the left).
To enter the awards click here
This will be the first curated exhibition in New Zealand that focuses on the process and work from potters who use wood kilns as both the means of expression and a functional tool to fire their work.
The exhibition will show the diversity of work produced and also the variety of designs of wood fired kilns that potters throughout New Zealand have created.
This resourcefulness of potters has forged a distinct culture in the ceramic community that relishes the dance with fire and the unpredictable nature of this elemental practice. Featuring installations by Mike O’Donnell.
Te Timatanga hou… a new beginning
To sing in the face of adversity.
ArtsPost, Hamilton
27 January 2023 – 27 February 2023
Open daily 10am to 5pm
Free entry