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