Advertising on this website

For information about advertising on this website please click the arrow.

Claybirds

Introducing a regular article following the activities of a group of potters who wish to be known as the "Claybirds"

Capital Clay 2009

Wellington, April 17 - 19 2009

Sponsorship Announcement

We are very happy to be able to announce our wonderful sponsorship for the prizes of the 50th National Exhibition.  We felt the 50th was a suitable milestone to offer some worthwhile prizes. Pottery or ceramic art, whatever you like to call it, has certainly come of age, and it is commendable that NZSP has grown from that first NZ Studio Potters Exhibition in 1957, and has managed to keep National exhibitions going on a nearly annual basis (or a few counting mistakes along the way)

......

Reserve this date! It is the weekend after Easter.

Wellington is a vibrant city and we are planning to give you a Capital Experience! All our venues are within easy walking distance of each other.

What’s on offer:

The Convention:

At Rutherford House, a Victoria University Venue – right next door to the railway/bus station.

Demonstrations, slides, discussions/forums, trade stalls, food, the AGM, networking, potters’ Olympics, friends, surprises.

......

Download your registration form now.

Please note there is an early bird discount for NZP members and one for non members. After the 31st of January, everyone pays the same.  Everyone registering before then will go into the draw for 1 lucky person to have their registration fee refunded.  It is sheer bribery to get you to enrol as soon as possible!

Download the registration form

Photographing Your Work by Eleanor Howick

Many national exhibitions now select pieces from an initial submission of digital photos. Here are a few tips from Eleanor Howick on how to take good photos of your work easily and reasonably cheaply. As well as submissions for exhibitions and competitions, its  great to have good quality photos for a portfolio, for your member's page on the NZ Potters' website and for exhibition catalogues

The first time I heard of George Kojis was in 2005 when I visited Waiariki Institute of Technology in Rotorua….. when George Andrews was tutor of the Craft Design Course.

George Kojis had just finished a 3-week tutorial. He was gone, but his work was there; exhibited in the polytech’s gallery. Platters textured with bubbles, with glazes
reflecting the green and blue vibrant waters of Rotorua’s lakes. Students were  ‘buzzing’ about the influence he had had on their work.

Marks of New Zealand Potters
A Comprehensive Directory 2007
Published by NZ Potters Inc

ONLY $29.95

A timely and invaluable guide for dealers and collectors, illustrating over 1500 of the marks used by New Zealand Potters and Ceramic Artists from 1930s to 2007 and published in a convenient handbook format.

*Wholesale price for bulk orders on application to NZ Potters Inc

ISBN: 978-0-473-12763-3

Download an order form

Beryl and Brian Buchanan owned Wellington Potters Supplies in Khandallah for over 20 years, supplying local and not so local potters with both materials and lots of advice.

After Brian’s death, Beryl continued to manage the shop on her own for another year or so. It was exhausting work.  Wanting to sell, she resisted several offers from people who wanted to take the business out of town because of her loyalty to the local customers.
 
And then along came Warren and Kate Fransham.

To be viewed at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery following a four and a half month pereiod of intense work where nothing but clay engaged his mind, is Jim Cooper's 970 piece ceramic work Peppermint and Incense.

Are you looking for a ceramics tutor for tertiary education? ...