Last night was NZ's Sustainable Business Network Awards and Paul from Clever Bastards organised a showcase of some of the clever bastards products to mingle amongst all the inspiring people, ideas and visions for a better world, it sounded like a great night !. Here are a few photo's, for more visit http://www.facebook.com/CleverBastards

Next weekend in the Hawkes Bay I'm part of the Wine Country gallery exhibition in association with the Holly Hospice Weekend Show. It is being held at Blue Moon. No 3 Donelly Street Havelock North from the 11th to the 13th of november.

For more info please visit www.winecountrygallery.com

New Date for Renee's xmas sale day !

Sunday October 17th from 10- 3pm

Enclosed is an invite to the sale day for you and your friends, please feel free to forward it on to anyone you think might be interested in the sale too.

There will be bubbly, beer and nibbles, and the expresso coffee machine will be up and running too and of course lots of ceramics.

And also a big thanks to everyone for all of your support and enthusiasm to me and my ceramics.

If I don't see you before summer , have a great summer holiday ( its coming... yay! ) and xmas with family and friends too.

I look forward to seeing you soon! Cheers

Renee's Early xmas Sale day for fantastic xmas bargains

Renee invites you to her 2010 Annual Studio Sale Day

Sunday October 17th from 10- 3pm

Ceramic Art, new lights, homewares and new wall sculptures.

Lots of seconds and lots of old stock specials too...

Friends, Family everyone welcome - Bubbly beer and expresso coffee

This weeks NZ herald Viva magazine has a photo of my new work in store now at Essenze in Parnell. www.essenze.co.nz

A big thanks to the great essenze team, they have done a fantastic display of the work and it looks great ...cheers to them.

Next week is the opening of the Portage Ceramic Awards, this year my work has been selected as one of the finalist in the exhibition which is very cool!. It's NZ's biggest ceramic show and held at Lopdell House Gallery in titirangi www.lopdell.org.nz

If you are around titirangi please check it out, it always show a exciting variety of ceramics being made today.

Stephen Bowers is the Judge and he is a multi award winning ceramicist and was the ex-director of the Jam factory in Australia. Which is a unique centre for design and is a leader in fostering and developing contemporary craft and design.

This week I have sent new work down to a beautiful gallery in Christchurch

Form Gallery www.form.co.nz

It is located within the Christchurch art Gallery on Worcester Boulevard in the city.

It shows a diverse and stunning range of object design.

And the good news is it is up and running again after the terrible earthquake in Christchurch due to the great spirit of the canterbury people ... well done !

Excitng news , I just have been told that one of my new wall installation series Life & Time has been selected as a finalist in this years 27th Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award in Australia.

So I am busy packing it to send to the exhibition next month. I was lucky enough to be invited last year too so its great to represent some kiwi ceramics from down under. When the show goes live I will send a link to it. Its live now !!

http://www.ceramicartaward.com/

In these works, nature serves as a piece of architecture in the pinning, connecting, and bridging of each individual form.

Many of my design ideas begin with simple paper templates and are translated into collages, often around a theme and a blend of different types of clays.

This theme can be a colour, shape, “feeling”... When I work with shape or pattern the collages of clay images work as reference points

New lights fresh out of the kiln - the ceramic orb light

Round petal dishes

Coming up next month is an exciting art exhibition fundraiser in Auckland.

The Braveheart Youth Trust Art Exhibition

The gala opening is on the 27th from 6pm, tickets can be purchased from the link below.

28th -30th May open from 10am daily

Venue at Pavilion 6 ASB Show Grounds

Proceeds will go towards the Right Track education programme.

For more info on the young new zealanders they assist and the art exhibition itself please visit www.braveheart.org.nz

I was lucky enough this month to be featured in Canvas Magazine in the wishlist column.

My new HOME wall clocks were featured to show everyones favourite hangout's their homes.

ALL YOU EVER WANTED - The Depot Show

A celebration exhibition of various ceramic artists involved with ceramics today, curated by Jo anne Rail. January 2010 Devonport

hi there, for those of you that are new to my blog, I have accidently deleted all my history so it's a new year and a new blog for me.

I will update the latest events soon, thanks for viewing my website too. cheers Renee