Celebrating 50 years of making with mud
Artist: Jenny Aston
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Title: Lithograph plates
These plates were inspired by a demo at MPC and were made using a mold and stoneware clay.
Price: NFS
Member of MPC since 2020
Potting since 2018
Artist: Jenny Aston
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Title: Raku birds
Hand-built using stoneware clay and raku fired with apple crackle glaze.
Price: NFS
Member of MPC since 2020
Potting since 2018
Artist: Jenny Aston
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Title: Raku bowl
Wheel-thrown with classic white clay and raku fired with apple crackle glaze.
Price: NFS
Member of MPC since 2020
Potting since 2018
Artist: Teri Berry
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Title: Parched
This water jug was inspired by a demonstration at one of our club meetings. It was thrown on the the wheel, using sodium silicate to create a textured surface and decorated using “oil spot” glazes.
2025
Price: $XX
Member of MPC since 2023
Potting since 1988
Artist: Teri Berry
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Title: Budding Blue
As a microbiologist the shapes that yeast cells form as they grow and divide (called budding) fascinates me. Unlike bacteria that divide more or less in half, with yeast, a section is pinched off creating a “mini-me” clone of the parent cell. This multi-tier planter / bowl was hand built using a combination of coiling and pinch pots in 2021.
Price: $XX
Member of MPC since 2023
Potting since 1988
Artist: Ray Chamberlin
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Title: A World Apart
I liked the idea of the Ball being suspended in mid-air but being held in place in a dramatic way.
It has two faces which differ one with a gloss glaze and the other with a matt Oxide.
Price: $XX
Member of MPC since 2016
Potting since 1970
Artist: Ray Chamberlin
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Title: Orb Jug
This was a piece that just grew as I made it. First creating a ball shape and then creating a round hole with a twisted handle that just looked right for it. This was then Pit Fired which gives it the burnt moody surface.
Price: NFS
Member of MPC since 2016
Potting since 1970
Artist: Ray Chamberlin
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Title: Oriental Treasure Boxes
I liked the simple white finish on these vertical boxes which gives a feeling of mystery – what is in these simple boxes? Open them and the coloured glaze increases the interest.
The simple locking stick completes the picture.
Price: $XX Each
Member of MPC since 2016
Potting since 1970
Artist: Caroline Griffin
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Title: Flower Bowl for Rings
I have various dishes on my hall table where I park my rings on arriving home. This bowl is one of them. It’s hand built, raku fired with sgrafitto defining the colourful underglaze flower.
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Member of MPC since 2018
Potting since she was a child (mother was a potter)
Artist: Elsbeth Huber
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Title: Copper Fish
This beautiful
copper fish was
created using raku
glazes and raku
firing.
My love for the ocean
and all the beautiful
fish that live in it
inspired me.
Price: $XX
Member of MPC since 2007
Potting since 1958
Artist: Elsbeth Huber
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Title: Pisces
Raku glazes
and raku firing.
This gorgeous fish
was inspired by my
star sign – Pisces
Price: $XX
Member of MPC since 2007
Potting since 1958
Artist: Xiaoping Jiang
Exhibit#:
Title: The Dream
This is my dream house on a beautiful piece of land with lovely landscape and water around it. Will the dream come true? I wonder!
This piece was exhibited in Quartz Emerging Practitioner in clay awards 2021 it was made at Nathan Homestead clay class with Philip and Ruth as my teachers.
Price: $XX
Member of MPC since 2020
Potting since 2016
Artist: Xiaoping Jiang
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Title: The Bubble Hub
I made this piece in 2015 just before I had my second child. I was inspired by the happy fishes in my husband’s fish tank!
Price: $XX
Member of MPC since 2020
Potting since 2016
Artist: Ruth Nixon
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Title: Flowering Cactus
Hand-built, stoneware
Price: $XX
Member of MPC since 2013
Potting since 1977
Artist: Ruth Nixon
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Title: Vessel
Hand-built with slabs, stoneware clay.
Price: $XX
Member of MPC since 2013
Potting since 1977
Artist: Ruth Nixon
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Title: Fantasy House
Slab built
Price: $XX
Member of MPC since 2013
Potting since 1977
Artist: Ruth Nixon
Exhibit#:
Title: 50
Slab built from terracotta clay. Made specifically for this exhibition.
Price: $XX
Member of MPC since 2013
Potting since 1977
Artist: Corrie Paterson
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Title: Raku Vase (ornamental)
Hand built pinch pot. Scraped surface then Raku fired.
Inspired by a Rick Rudd workshop held at the club.
Price: NFS
Member of MPC since 1979
Potting since 1978
Artist: Colleen Rhodes
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Title: Striped Marlin
Self designed and hand made from slab stoneware clay then fired in a gas-fired kiln.
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Member of MPC since 1974 (founding member)
Potting since 1970
Artist: Priya Shukla
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Title: Smiling Dottie
Priya moved from the UK to New Zealand 14 years ago. The dots represent all of life’s experiences which make up a person and contribute to their make-up.
Having had her first child in 2020 during lockdown season, Priya was unable to be joined by family. Dottie’s wavy shape reflects the unstable world climate (both literal and metaphorical) at the time (and perhaps still) and also internal fluctuations.
Smiling Dottie is an example of how a mother has to keep on smiling and functioning despite life’s difficulties and constant exhaustion. Her jagged edge shows how much a mother gives to her child, which can be a loss to herself. She is perfectly imperfect.
Price: NFS
Member of MPC since 2024
Potting since
Artist: Susan Treanor
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Title: Terracotta Flower Pot
Slips, underglazes and mid fire glazes top layer.
Price: $XX
Member of MPC since 2014
Potting since the 60’s
Artist: Susan Treanor
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Title: She Sells Sea Shells
Inspired by daughter and granddaughters shell collection from the Leigh and Maraetai area, whole and broken, showing the resilience and beauty of nature. Numerous underglazes and slips used then glazed. Some fired using the raku technique. Conclusion, nature wins every time but it has been fun trying.
Price: NFS
Member of MPC since 2014
Potting since the 60’s
Artist: Susan Treanor
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Title: Stone the Crows
Terracotta, underglaze, black oxide and black glaze over.
Price: NFS
Member of MPC since 2014
Potting since the 60’s
Artist: Ev Williams
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Title: Wild Roses Wall Tiles
A successful experiment using lustres on bare clay.
Price: NFS
Member of MPC since 1978
Potting since 1973
Artist: Ev Williams
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Title: Frangipani Wall Vase
Made 2015 – Glazed 2023
Price: $XX
Member of MPC since 1978
Potting since 1973
Artist: Ev Williams
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Title: Kete
Made in 2023 using Whitestone clay.
Price: $XX
Member of MPC since 1978
Potting since 1973
Artist: Beili Zhu
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Title: Oumuamua
Oumuamua is the first confirmed object from another star to visit our solar system. This interstellar interloper appears to be a rocky, cigar-shaped object with a somewhat reddish hue. The object was named ‘Oumuamua’ by its discoverers. It means “a messenger from a far arriving first” in Hawaiian.
Oumuamua is up to one-quarter mile (400 meters) long and highly-elongated – perhaps 10 times as long as it is wide. That aspect ratio is greater than that of any asteroid or comet observed in our solar system to date. It may provide new clues into how other solar systems formed.
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