Award Winners

The New Plymouth Potters 40th Annual Exhibition opening was held on Friday 2 August at the Real TArt Gallery.  The guest selector and Exhibitor, Bruce Walford opened the exhibition and announced the award winners.  The Supreme Award went to Cecily Bull for her two works "Papatanuku & Ranginui" (Earth mother and Sky father) and the Merit Award was presented to Kathryn Gates for her set of work "Reflections".

    

"Supreme Award" - Cecily Bull   

 

     "Merit Award" - Kathryn Gates 

       



Bruce Walford was born in South Africa and has over 40 years experience as a potter, working in his home country as well as Italy, Scotland, England, Australia and now New Zealand.  Bruce spent the 80s and 90s in South Africa exhibition widely and establishing himself as one of the top ten potters in the country and during this time won the South African Biennial Ceramics Awards (Thrown-ware category) and was invited to participate in the "1992 International Invitational Exhibition of Ceramic Art" at the National Museum of History in Taipei.
Bruce has refined a paperclay material which has given him the freedom to produce simple but strikingly sculptural waka forms and organic platters.  These are richly embellished with a range of textures and subtle glazes.

     A selection of Bruce Walford's work

 

Some of New Plymouth Potters exhibits on display at the Real TArt Gallery

 

 

 Acknowledgements:
The New Plymouth Potters wish to thank the following people and organisations for their assistance in making the 2013 40th Annual Exhibition possible:

• Real TArt Gallery, kindly supported by Peter and Rosemary Tennent & family, The Devon Hotel, Marbles Buffet, Yarrows the Bakers, TSB Community Trust, New Plymouth District Council, Staples Rodway Chartered Accountants and billings Lawyers.
• "The anonymous donor of the Supreme Award
• The Lion Foundation