Art and Abart

Nelson has a marvelous little gallery, the Suter Art Gallery, set in the Queens Garden, which is a green refuge near the city centre. Qu...

There is something charming about ceramics that is hard to put your finger on. Is it because we know they are made from clay, or is it the c...

A little bit of fun from the ceramics workshop. These dancers .... now dance on the old BBQ in the garden.

This portrait of Franz Liszt is made of ceramic. He is part of a series of ceramic portraits I made when I was in Dunedin. I unpacked them...

No, not crocodile leather but ceramic. This last plate out of the kiln was a real surprise.

Terracotta bowl with slip edge. It was fired at 1120C and the terracotta colour is not quite as rich as the clay bowl with music which was ...

This plate (about 30cm diameter, from the same mould as the plate below) had two firings. The first firing was at 1080C with an alkaline gl...

A terracotta bowl with black music (Tristan and Isolde!) This flat plate is made of white stoneware clay. The face is made of slip, which is...

This zipper plate was made by making a mould with a zipper pressed into it. The name on the zipper, Luigi, is intelligible through the glaz...

Dunedin and nearby Port Chalmers are full of such wonderful art. How could I have forgotten? It is such a pleasure to be in a city where cit...

I put some more music ceramics online .

Sound Cloud , one of my ceramic pieces in the 'Handled' exhibition that opened this evening at Whiteroom at 31 Moray Place in Dunedi...

Kevin Rudd says 'sorry' and I make ceramic sorry-pots. Out of the pots emerge tender young shoots. I think it is hard for people liv...