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the finders keepers

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

The Finders Keepers flyer

Check out more of my work HERE

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clay trio exhibition

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.

PANO

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a real taste of noosa

a real taste of noosa blog

SUPER chuffed to be invited to make two individually handcrafted dinner sets for this wonderful foodie event at The Butter Factory Arts Centre, Cooroy.

Check out A Real Taste of Noosa . Book your ticket now! You can go home with a happy full belly and your own  ceramic dinner set, you may even get mine!

Check out my other dinner sets HERE

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new year, new directions

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.

XX Factor exhibition flyer

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nothing like a good pottery sale

kandanga-pottery-xmas-sale-fbPJ 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

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what a ride!

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I loved the challenge of making a whole new range of teapots and tea sets for the Finders Keepers Design Market and now it is here – 9-11 November, Brisbane Showgrounds. Now it’s your turn! Come visit and indulge yourself, family or friend with a handmade gift that will hopefully bring joy for years to come.

Here is a taster of the teapots that will be for sale and check my shop for more you can purchase online. You can also purchase small yunomi cup sets to match.

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i’m in love

i’m in love – TEAPOTS are a challenge and a joy to create, I feel honoured to be part of the November Finders Keepers design market in Brisbane with a stall of my handmade teapots and I’m in a frenzy of making. Thought I’d share part of the process…

I'm in love -teapot making

teapots are made in separate parts – body, spout, lid and handle – and put together once the clay has firmed up a little to a ‘leather hard’ state. Once constructed they need to dry slowly to avoid cracking of the individual components and then they are bisque fired, glazed and fired again.

Opening the kiln at the end of this quite long process is a huge reason I love pottery,  it’s like opening a treasure chest – every time!

Find more of our current teapot range HERE