New Zealand Potter Volume 21 Number 1 Autumn 1979
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"iewzed'dhdtter“v.<.>-'._21/] éUtumn 1979 new zealand potter vol 21/] autumn 1979 f" Contents 215t National Exhibition, NZ Society of Potters l Accounting without tears Thoughts about natural gas Slab rollers \OOOGN Margaret’s place 10 Daniel Rhodes — his visit 14 Travelling in South America with Anneke Borren 18 Pottery school at Te Horo 20 Warren Tippett 21 Barry Brickell remembers early days again 28 A climbing kiln 29 Clark and Crum modeling clays 30 Design guidelines for beginners 31 INTRODUCTION Hazy morning slow but hotter, Recent work 32 easing through the smokey stacks, The half bisqued potter sits, Auckland Studio Potters Annual Exhibition 34 mishima jeans, carbon fingers checking spies — playing it outside the rule, carbon face with carbon eyes, History on your table 37 mistakenly brilliantly burnished and fluxed, columns, into cleaner skies. with crystalline crackle and pool, Legs up high on unsprung dust sacks, a thermocouple stuck in his ear and the clock reading singed off sweat rag face, twelve hundred and dropping. An underfired test mug as heat moves into all around — full of “leftbehindahalfabottle” wine — 1979, it starts to feel and taste. cone ten singe White hot orgasmic cone down time the kiln and you are soaking on a burnt back fringe, New Zealand Potter is a non-profit making magazine published twice annually. Circulation is 6,500. The holding fuel flow, now cut its throat, with bright squares in his spy—eyes. : annual subscription is $NZ4.00, for Australia $A4.70, Canada and the United States, $U.S.5,40, Britain Cannot remember when or more particularly why, and start off, your wine fed hoping, £2.70 postage included. this cycle began — for the gut glazed matts New Subscriptions should include name and address of subscriber and the issues required, Please mark and painted shines correspondence ”Subscriptions”, Receipts will not be sent unless asked for. A renewal form is included FROM WIN TO WICKET DOWN shino, I know its waiting time. in the second issue each year. This should be used without delay. It is the only indication that the Clay matted “insulation” beard magazine is still required. shiny headed stoneware ears, Handle me, 200, hot scratch open silica jokes — gloves on clawing eager prizers, Advertising rates Full page 180mm wide x 250mm high $140 cylinder coaxing, door to ”step across dog” floor Half page 180mm x 122mm high $80 heatwave rushes, shrunken tops, the light up day draws near. Quarter page 88mm wide x 122mm high $50 sizes. Stacking slacking bendy bum 13 less in Spot 88mm wide x 58mm high $30 in the doorway of the arches, Pass me more passing, knocking, start the blocking cannot believe the changes in this load Offset printing. Unless finished art work ready for camera is supplied by advertiser, then 10% will be at last the time has come — tomorrow. have to live, take this paint, .. added to the above rates. Correspondence marked ”Advertising”, to editor. Sleepy early never works put a sign out on the road. social knockers dropping by, editor: Margaret Harris talked till ever, 101m Green/Potters Green layout and design: Nigel Harris sheets at 3, lighting up at 5. Paremoremo editorial committee: John Stackhouse, Nigel Harris, Audrey Brodie, Auckland correspondent John Parker, Christchurch correspondent Ann Davie editorial/subscription/advertising P.O. Box 12-162 Wellington North, New Zealand Cover, Margaret Milne at work in Auckland printed by Deslandes Ltd, Wellington iISSN 002878608 photo: Steve Rumsey New Zealand Potter Page 2 New Zealand Potter Page 3 21st National EX ibition NZ Society of Pott glaze 1“)“q. Riglg;55713;:l:alt Cfcvfitfi‘ S’Q Waikato Art Museum Left: jug/ saltglaze stoneware Ian Bell Right: bowl, salt glaze Mirek Smisek Top left: grass pot, stoneware Left; cmc' k, sa It gaZLI ’ Frankl-lolmes stoneware Peter Gibbs Centre left: stoneware cylinders Anne McCartney Bottom left: Petunias, earthenware tiles Gennie De Lange Top right: stoneware teaset Right: teapot, saltglaze Ian Firth Renton Murray Centre rig/1t: porcelain lidded box, incised slip decoration Graeme Storm New Zealand Potter Page 4 New Zealand Potter Right: two spheres, crystalline on porcelain Anneke Borren Centre: trinket box and twig vase, porcelain Margaret Radford Below: stoneware serving dishes Peter Stichbury Photographs: Kees Sprengers, Waikato Art Museum Top left: platter, house with a glass dome, stoneware and epoxy resin Brian Gartside Top right: sphere, stoneware Anne McCartney Centre left: Vortex I high fired earthenware Leo King Below right: ceramic assemblage # North Shore landscape, stoneware, porcelain, epoxy resin Brian Gartside Below left: dish, Shino type glaze Kevin Gaskill New Zealand Potter Page 4 New Zealand Potter Right: two spheres, crystalline on porcelain Anneke Barren Centre: trinket box and twig vase, porcelain Margaret Radford Below: stoneware serving dishes Peter Stichlnuy Photographs: Kees Sprengers, Waikato Art Museum Top left: platter, house with a glass dome, stoneware and epoxy resin Brian Gartside Top right: sphere, stoneware Anne McCartney Centre left: Vortex I high fired earthenware Leo King Below right: ceramic assemblage — North Shore landscape, stoneware, porcelain, epoxy resin Brian Gartside Below left: dish, Shino type glaze Kevin Gaskill New Zealand Potter Page 6 New Zealand Potter Page 7 ket in one year and result in your pay- depreciation on your house — a prop— the beginning of their careers, is ’at Accounting without tears Ngaere Adams. A.C.A. ing a lot more tax in that year. ortion of these are allowable if you use what stage should I start putting in a If, for example, at the end of your your house as an office. There is a very tax return?’ I have tried to find this out Some people say that there is no ac- cheques paid and bankings made or it Tax Law states: financial year, you had just had a firing good booklet available from the Queen from the Inland Revenue Department of trading stock of counting for potters, or other people will cost you money and time to get ’that the Value and had a kiln load of fired pots on Elizabeth 11 Arts Council called ’Tax but the answers have been rather as at the end of any involved in the crafts for that matter. information from the bank. Don’t on any taxpayer hand waiting to be sold, the sale of Guide for Artists’, which gives a lot of vague. The main thing to consider is at the option Maybe they are right, but with the Tax any account pay bills from the cash you income year shall be, those pots early in the coming financial information about what expenses are intention. If you make pots with the its cost price, its man lurking in the wings, we cannot receive. At the end of6 months or so it of the taxpayer, year could result in your showing a deductible for tax purposes. At a cost of intention of selling them, then you are or the price at afford to ignore the fact that, sooner or is usually impossible to remember market selling value, high sales figure for the second year $2.50, it is a good investment and very no longer a hobby potter and should replaced.’ later, the bogey of accounting has to be what you have paid and you could pre— which it can be and a low sales figure for the previous reliable, but it is still a good idea to consider yourself in business. There is faced. As a potter as well as a chartered judice yourself when it comes to work- This allows a certain amount of year. In such a case, it might be better employ a chartered accountant to pre— no profit figure beyond which you are accountant with years of experience in ing out your expenses for the year. latitude. Finished pots should gener- to bring those pots into your stock fig- pare your annual accounts and tax re— expected to put in a tax return, but the dealing with accounting for small Some people think that it is a good idea ally be included at cost, but I would ure at selling price (instead of cost turns. He or she is experienced in the Tax Department will still look at your businesses, I am probably able to see not to bank all the money received, or suggest that any unfinished pots be left price) to even up the income for the job just as you are experienced at pot— first set of accounts and tax return and both sides of the problem better than even show it in their records at all but if out of stocktaking on the principle that two years. This is the sort of matter ting, and it is worth the fee charged then decide whether it is a hobby or a most people, and can perhaps dispel a this is done in a big way it is very there is many a slip twist the cup and which should be sorted out with your just to have the worry off your mind business at that stage. few of the worries which beset potters obvious from your annual figures that the lip. However, if you have a kiln full accountant, but it helps considerably if and to know that it is done properly. If when it comes to preparing figures for you appear to have been living on less of pots ready to fire, you could, if you you know what it is all about and how you happen to have any hassles with their annual accounts and taxation re- than the proverbial smell of an oily rag want to, include these in your stock on to help yourself to save tax.