I am honoured to have been invited to the annual Potters’ Convention with Wide Bay Burnett Potters Association later this month. If you are up that way and want to watch me demonstrate how to throw and construct teapots, you can book HERE
It is a 2 day conference with other tutors demonstrating; Gai and Cam McDonald and Lyndell Peterson, at the Maryborough Showground.
We love the Sydney Teapot Show! This year one of the categories was to create a teapot based on a nonsense poem so of course, I made a Jabberwocky holding a teapot inspired by the Lewis Carroll poem
I have put in an entry in each year for many years. There is usually a choice of themes to challenge potters to great heights of creativity. This is an amazing exhibition that potters and collectors around Australia look forward to each year.
If you are in Sydney around Saturday 17 September – Sunday 16 October 2022 call into the Kerrie Lowe Gallery in Newtown and view the amazing and diverse teapots from around Australia.
Here you can view and purchase our handmade Australian made teapots
Open Studio in November
VERY excited to be in the 2020 Australian Ceramics Open Studios Sat/Sun 21/22 November. My lovely studio will be (hopefully) clean and tidy and pots priced and displayed ready for sale. There will be the traditional sales table of seconds and old stock as well as fresh new work hot from the kiln. I’ll be offering discounts for my wonderful students and repeat customers. So come visit, talk clay, and bring some spending money #nearlyxmas
I will be giving throwing demonstrations all weekend. Bring your children and friends to see how pottery is made on the wheel. See you next month! Check out my shop for what you will be able to purchase.
WINTER UPDATE
The boots, scarves and jumpers are out and it’s a lovely time to visit Tamborine Mountain: be invigorated by the fresh mountain air and spoil yourself to a hot toddy at one of our excellent cafes and restaurants.
I’m thrilled to say the Iso Tea-Time of the Soul exhibition at Under The Greenwood Tree has been extended so there is one more week to see this show of steampunk inspired ceramics, you can ask Janene for a copy of the catalogue
the iso tea-time of the soul (with apologies to Douglas Adams)
you are all most cordially invited to…..an exhibition of elaborate handmade ceramic Steampunk teapots & tea drinking paraphernalia
Opening Saturday 6th June 2020
Under the Greenwood Tree Bookshop and Contemporary Art Gallery
92 Main Western Rd Tamborine Mt Qld
Opening hours: 10am – 4pm Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat & Sun. Closed Tuesdays & Thursdays
Nicci will be at the gallery from 11am – 3pm on Saturday 6th June. For those unable to visit in person – a virtual tour of the Iso Tea-time of the Soul exhibition by Nicci will be viewable on Facebook Instagram and via the gallery newsletter.
Catalogue of works emailed upon request 07 5545 4448 / 0424 586 066 janene@underthegreenwoodtree.com.au
Check out more Steampunk ceramics HERE
Art + Crafters’ Market Last market for PJ Pottery before Christmas! with Gold Coast Potters
I will have a stall of teapots, tea bowls, teapot planters and assorted Christmas gift ideas, this Sunday 24 November. This is a fantastic market full of handmade crafts – pottery, jewellery, woodwork, textiles and much more. Check the FB event for details.
Check more of my works HERE
Super excited to be accepted to exhibit again at the Brisbane Finders Keepers Design Market 8-10 November at Brisbane Showgrounds. I will have a teapot stall with both functional and fanciful individually crafted teapots for all you teapot lovers and collectors. If you’d like to follow my works in progress, check my Instagram page @pj_pottery
Check out more of my work HERE
Clay Trio Exhibition
I was honoured to be invited back to exhibit with fellow potters, Max Powell and Albert Verschuuren to the Ceramic Break Sculpture Park in Warialda, NSW recently. A selection of my handmade teapots and tea sets are currently for sale there until the end of July 2019. If you are travelling through, it is well worth the visit – an amazing place.
new year, new directions
so…here we are in 2019, with loads of plans and fresh new year’s resolutions. PJ Pottery has recently moved from the Sunshine Coast to the Mt Tamborine in the Gold Coast hinterland so the set up of the new studio has been all consuming but – we are nearly there! Check out our build HERE
The big news is the XX FACTOR exhibition at the Butter Factory Arts Centre, Cooroy, if you’re around come in, say hi, buy a piece or two.
The concept behind the XX Factor exhibition was designed to shine a light on the extraordinary talent of the Sunshine Coast region’s women ceramic artists, dedicated to their unique creativity and that mighty XX factor. The rationale for the theme to create works of scale and gusto over half a metre in size was to unify the display, offer a challenge to the participating women artists and create a spectacular exhibition.
Initiated and driven by ceramicist, Nicci Parry-Jones – who will co-curate the exhibition at the BFAC – this show will coincide with International Women’s Day 2019 (7 March) with generous support from WINDO and the Noosa Regional Council through a grant from the Regional Arts Development Fund. The XX Factor exhibition opens 3pm Sunday 3 March at the Butter Factory Arts Centre, 11A Maple St, Cooroy, Qld. This will be the official opening of 3 exhibitions to celebrate women artists from the region, more details here.
PJ Pottery and Design and Peter Wallace Pottery will open their shared pottery workshop to the public for a scrumptious Christmas sale
10am-4pm Saturday + Sunday 8/9 December Juster Road, Kandanga, look for the yellow pottery signs
Perfect opportunity to pick up some hand crafted gifts for Christmas. There will be Nicci’s unique teapots, pastel and earthy ranges of home ware and Peter’s divine crystalline glazed home ware and water purifiers. For the bargain hunters, there will also be a seconds table and discontinued stock at great prices 🙂
FREE tea + coffee and pottery demonstrations through out the weekend.
If you can’t make the studio sale, check the website for our ceramics
