New Zealand National Pottery Exhibition
Havelock North Convention Centre
Until July 30
Review: by Toni MacKinnon,
Director, Hastings City Art Gallery who was the selector and judge for the exhibition
It is wonderful to see renewed focus on ceramics in the past five or so years. Each of the artists selected for the New Zealand National Pottery Exhibition 2016 are included because they should be seen and considered in the context of what is happening in ceramics or sculptural arts at the moment.
The exhibition opened in conjunction with the "Hands On Hawke's Bay" potters conference. It is important to reflect that in a group show of this kind, that the works in the exhibition are representative of an established artist's entire body of work or of an emergent artist.
Either way the New Zealand Potters exhibition is a celebration of the bravery of those who give big space to their ideas by sharing them.
New Zealand Potters Premier Award winner Rick Rudd presents exceptional pieces.