AiR 1 2022

AiR 1 celebrates the work of the Artists in Residence over 2022.

The Artist in Residence programme was established at ASP in 2019 and calls for applications from national and international potters and ceramicists to spend up to three months working in one of ASP’s two pod studios on the Centre’s grounds in Onehunga, Tāmaki Makaurau. The ASP committee has identified the residency programme as having the potential to stoke the local fires of a resurgence in the ceramic arts worldwide and to provide a creative hub for experimental and traditional ceramics in New Zealand. Resident artists help around the centre and teach where possible and in so doing become valuable contributors to the centre’s whanaungatanga and shared sense of community. ASP are proud to introduce the 11 artists who, since its inception in 2019, through the difficult Covid years, to the first semester of 2022, make up the inaugural AiR1 exhibition. Included artists span the full range from young graduates through traditional artisan master-craftsmen to contemporary exhibiting artists and modern table and homeware specialists. The AiR programme is keen to foster this eclectic cross section of clay workers and recognises the value in both traditional and contemporary ceramic practices.

Click here to see a catalogue of the works