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Group of four artist friends have collaborated to bring together a new ceramic exhibition Luminary Potters, now showing at the Mangawhai Artists Gallery.
Working with clay, each artist has interpreted the theme of illumination in different ways. The exhibition has been a year in the planning, prompting a journey of development for each of the potters as they dealt differently with the intersection of art and function.
Kay Airey specialises in the hand building pottery art form. A long-time member of Auckland Studio Potters and a member of Mangawhai Artists since she moved to Mangawhai four years ago, she finds working in clay both challenging and satisfying.
Lena Nelson, a self-taught potter, has come from a creative background where she has dabbled in many artistic forms in her lifetime. She says she draws inspiration from her homeland Sweden, where lights and candles lighten the mood of the long winter days.
Kay and Lena hold pottery workshops for people new to pottery in Mangawhai.
Steve Marsh has a long history in visual arts with a Diploma in Figurative Studies from Whitecliffe College of Art and Design. He has also tutored graphic design and landscape painting, but is new to 3D artforms. He enjoys exploring Japanese themes and the endless possibilities of glazes.
Sue Fitzgerald has been involved in art most of her life. In 1991, she completed a three year Art Certificate majoring in pottery in Western Australia and then did a degree at Edith Cowan University.
She recently returned to pottery with both wheel and hand building, and particularly enjoys different firing techniques such as pit and saggar firing.
Luminary Potters is at the Mangawhai Artists Gallery, 45 Moir Street, Mangawhai, and open daily from 10.30am to 3.30pm (and from 9am on Saturdays) until Thursday July 24.
