New Zealand Potter Volume 37 Number 3 December 1995
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IN THIS ISSUE THROUGH THE FILTER PRESS Howard Williams, Editorial 2 OBITUARY Susie Cooper, English Ceramic Designer 4 NEW ZEALAND POTTER VOLUME 37: NUMBER 3:1995 MOTOR CYCLISTS GO POTTY Waikato Museum '3 Exhibition of Motor Cycles and Pots 5 Editor: Howard S Williams RACHEL FULLER P.O. Box147, Albany, NZ. New sculptural work in clay 8 Phone 09 415 9817 THE PIONEERS Advertising: John Parker profiles Olive Jones 10 Cecilia Parkinson Phonel Fax 09 415 9373 GAS CENTRE CERAMICS AWARDS Mobile 025 820 034 Photos by Stephanie Leeves from the Waikato Exhibition 13 PO. Box 881 , Auckland. Zealand BLOOMSBURY Subscriptions: Gloria Young describes her Wellington co-operative studio and shop 14 Publisher and Distributor: NZ Potter Publications Ltd LUCIE RIE REMEMBERED PO Box 881, Auckland, NZ. 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Annual Exhibition in the Taranaki Museum 38388238928893 Finished art work must be supplied COVER PHOTO or above rates will be added to. Copyright New Zealand Potter "The King's Army". Terracotta Installation by Peter Lange Publishing Ltd. No part of this Photo by Howard Williams at Albany Village Pottery publication may be reproduced Further: photos on page 44 stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form without written permission of the publishers PRICE $12 INCL. GST ISSN 1173 5279 New Zealand Potter Publishing Co Ltd, is a low- profit organisation of potters and friends. Copyright Maori over the past 500 years.” Internet patching material, it will turn dark grey. It are simply will also dry and fire hard, making it diffi- From the Greymouth Evening Star, Thurs- Mr Robinson said the initials If you can access the Internet through your Press part of the disc’s Maori design. However cult to apply a glaze. Through The Filter day September 7, 1995, comes the fol- computer, see if you can find the Ceram- Mr Mapp has produced several other By Howard S Williams lowing story written by Kim Knight. It con- ics Gopher, put up by the San Diego State cerns all artists and craftspeople where equally intricate pieces with the same sig— University, USA. This can be found at the EKCW nature. and design, focusing on new means of moral ownership of art work, their Intel- address: http://www.athena.sdsu.edu. The European Ceramic Work Centre is Value Added Export? The jade copy wasn’t in the Gold Room communication, ways of sharing informa- lectual Property is concerned. We will be When the menu comes up, follow it to inviting artists to apply for a work period. From the UK Clay Industry magazine Glo- this morning. It has apparently been re— tion, and organising professional and edu- following up this story with the help of Art- the Art Departmentand select The Ceram- The EKCWis a cross cultural, non-profit bal Ceramic Review comes the following turned to the carver, who was unable to cational co-operation by using New Infor- ists Alliance. ics Gopher. contemporary art work space, with a par- item: be contacted. mation Technology. “Copycat Call From Carver" Or you can try: http://www.sdsu.edu ticular focus on ceramics. its aim is to The ever increasing quality demands of Another Hokitika carver, Ross Crump, Other themes will be the Higher Educa- “A Paraparaumu carver is claiming a and follow the Departmental links to the stimulate development in ceramics, the world’s premier bone china and por- says copying is a fact of life. tion of Ceramic Art and Design, Pro- bone disc made by him in 1985 and bought School of Art, Design 8‘ Art History Home though it is open to all visual artists, celain manufacturers are being'met by raw “it happens right across the industry. you grammes of Post Graduate Experience, by the Auckland Museum has been cop- Page, and then to the sdsu Ceramics craftspeople, designers and architects, materials from the Stoke-on-Trent sites of a patent on a design, and the Research and Writing on Ceramics. ied - right down to his signature - by a can’t take Gopher. from any country, who want to work on a Goonvean Ceramic Materials (GCM). thing you can really do is be the first Artists, designers, teachers and re- Hokitika man. only Here there are papers on a range of pot- project or carry out research on a indi- Having invested some five million to come up with it. It keeps us sharp.” searchers are invited to present their new Owen Mapp discovered the jade rep- tery topics including glazes, firing meth- vidual or co-operative basis. Emphasis in pounds over the last five years in estab— have been repli- findings in the seminar sessions of the lica yesterday during a visit to Hokitika’s He believes his pieces ods, kilns and safety concerns. There is work periods is on exploration, creativity lishing the sites at Blurton and Milton as cated “a thousand times” in his 25 jears conference. Gold Room. an experimental glaze database with pic— and dialogue. two of the most modern production facili- The conference language is English and “The design has been ripped off. It’s of carving. tures of test tiles. Via the Internet you can, Applicants must have practised their ties in the field, GCM is now focussing on will be published and be accessible been copied exactly and signed with my “It’s a common thing, there‘s no doubt add your own recipes and pictures if you profession independently for a least two a global market, with a 30 percent increase through Internet/World Wide Web. Full signature." about that. A number of people carve, but wish. years, though the EKCW would also like in export turnover in the past year. These they have no idea of design." details from: The original bone piece is approximately There is also the Ceramics Art Discus- to encourage talented young artists who exports now represent more than a third 13 centimetres across and has featured sion List. This is a Listserve mailing list. don't fulfill this requirement. of total sales. P fl University of Art and Design in several books. It includes Mr Mapp’s You send a message to join up and then Twelve studios and advanced equip- Helsinki UIAH stylised initials to the right of the three can receive copies of the electronic mail ment are available, as is technical advice New Zealand Halloysite Hawkes Bay Art Review Conference Secretariat claws. messages posted to the group listing. You and support. At the same time GCM has forged a closer in Ceramics ‘96 Mr Mapp said he was “amused and Annual Exhibition of Painting, Sculp- can ask questions for others to answer on As a general rule, the work periods last link with New Zealand China Clays and Networks Hameentie 135 C shocked” when he saw the jade copy, ture, Print Making and Photography various clay topics, send answers your- from three to four months. The admission has become its sole agent covering the FIN-00560 which was selling for $1,000. self and suggestions, send or get glaze committee bases its decisions on the ap- The two companies Broey. Head of Fine Art, UK and Eire markets. “I was amused at the audacity. That a Selector: Ted recipes and potters‘ tips. plicant‘s documentation; CV slides, refer- have in fact been working closely on a Helsinki Canterbury University. Finland person who lives in the height of the jade L ‘l ences and work plan. number of projects over the past few were entered and 55 se- carving area could do something so stu- 300 works A working budget is made available to years, culminating in the signing of an lected, of these there were seven Sculp— pid and think they could get away with it.” those to be admitted.