Five pieces in the All Fired Up Exhibition

The Hakatere Ceramics and Pottery Group’s annual exhibition, ‘All Fired Up’ is currently on at the ASA Short St Studio and I have five pieces in the exhibition.

Awards were given for hand and wheel categories for Novice – 0-3 years, Intermediate – 3-6 years and Open – 6 plus years experience. I received a runner-up award for my Blue Drip Bowl, a piece that I had thrown on the wheel. I find wheel work very challenging and so I was very pleased with this result.

I was not totally happy with the result of the first glaze firing of this bowl, so I used a rotary tool to remove the glaze I was not happy with. I then touched up the glaze and refired it.

Likewise, I did the same with these two vases. The original mandarin glaze on the inside of the vases was too weak and so these were reglazed with red.

All three of these vessels were still in the kiln when I left for a holiday two weeks before the exhibition opened so I am glad they all survived the extra firing and came out well.

My experiments with extruding clay through a cookie press led me to create these squid figures.

This work is being exhibited in Hakatere Ceramics and Pottery Group’s 2024 All Fired Up Exhibition at the Ashburton Society of Arts Short St Studio, 53 Short St, Ashburton from 12-26 October 2024. Open daily 10am-3pm.