artistic CV

ceramics training

2025-   Old St Luke’s Studio, Gundaroo (Moraig McKenna)

2020-   Canberra Potters

Altered forms (Maryke Henderson); Tableware (Chris Harford); Electric and Gas Kiln Licences; Beginner, Continuing, Glaze courses (Anna O’Neale, Georgie Bryant, Joey Burns)

Short courses / Masterclasses

2025     Aaron Scythe (Canberra Potters)

2024     Prue Venables (Slow Clay Centre, VIC); Kazuya Ishida, Rob Linigen (Canberra Potters); Simon Levin (Balmoral Pottery, NSW)

John Dix (online)

2023     Malcolm Greenwood (Stoker Studio, VIC); Akira Satake and Ken Matsuzaki (online); Jann Kesby (Anagama, Sturt Craft Centre, NSW)

awards and recognition

2023     Canberra Potters’ Student/Teacher Exhibition (Best surface decoration)

2020     Tea master, Chadô Urasenke (artistic name: So’i 宗衣)

2017     Japanese Foreign Minister’s Citation

exhibitions

2026 VESSELS: Contemporary Australian ceramics with Sogetsu Ikebana QLD (Makers’ Gallery, Brisbane)

2025      Canberra Potters’ Members’ Exhibition

2024      Canberra Potters’ Student/Teacher + Members’ Exhibitions

2023      Canberra Potters’ Student/Teacher Exhibition

curation and design

2026 ‘The Essence of Tea’: curated Tea presentation and conversation with Euan Craig

Skepsi Gallery @ Malvern ‘The Essence of Clay’ Exhibition, Euan Craig and John Dermer OAM

2019     OBJECTively, ANU Japan Institute + SOAD, National Museum of Australia

2014 Fushiki-an,  Contemporary Japanese Tea room in Australian materials

(with Philip Leeson and Rob Henry (architects): Thor’s Hammer (recycled Australian timber) and Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Koitoya)

1997      Australian Teawares, Tsuta Gallery, Tokyo (with Margaret Price)

1996      Australian Teawares, Australian Embassy, Tokyo (with Margaret Price)

arts writing, press and publications

2019     Introduction, OBJECTively: Connecting Australia and Japan (ANU) 9-11

2000     Review: The Japanese Way of Tea: From Its Origins in China to Sen Rikyu, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 73, No. 4, pp. 605-607

1995     `Tea and Australian Identity’, Migration Action Vol XXVII (3) 20

films and videos

2023      Teabowls: the aesthetics of ‘feel’  (Alistair Whyte)(15:00)(direction and editing)

2022. Invitation to Tea (2:38)(Script and editing)

opening exhibitions

2025     Canberra Potters 50th anniversary Members’ Exhibition

2021      Golden Shells and the Gentle Mastery of Japanese Lacquer, Collection of Dr Pauline Gandel AC, National Gallery of Victoria,

service

2024-     President and Board Chair, Canberra Potters’ Society Inc./Watson Arts Centre ACT

practice development

2025 -    Evolve and Evolve Next Level (Amy Kennedy)

ceramics teaching

2025     Interpreter/teaching assistant, Canberra Potters Masterclass (Masaru Nishikawa)

memberships

2026-    Craft + Design Canberra

2025-    The Australian Ceramics Association

              Strathnairn Arts, ACT

2020-    Canberra Potters’ Society Inc.