Exhibitions

Waiclay Ceramics Award

Here's what's hanging in the Waikato Museum. As you can see it is similar to the piece I submitted to the Portage Awards, a different shelf and different pots, but the ideas behind the work are the same. I find it important to work the idea of repetition, small variations and alterations to dimensions seem to create a new dynamic in each work. I hope that whoever buys the work also experiments with the order of the Albarelli and maybe discover a more pleasing sequence.

 

Portage Awards

Here is my piece that was accepted into the Portage Ceramic Awards for 2011. It's always fun to challenge yourself to enter these awards, the time pressure, the judging process, the waiting on the mail delivery moments are excellent ways to focus your mind. As a challenge to any critical writers out there it would be interesting for someone to review the last decade of the Portage Awards to see if any trends or identifiable traits have emerged in New Zealand ceramics over that time frame.