artistic CV

ceramics training

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

2020-    Canberra Potters’ Altered forms (Maryke Henderson) + Tableware (Chris Harford); Canberra Potters’ Electric and Gas Kiln Licences; Canberra Potters’ Beginner, Continuing, Glaze and Kilns courses (Anna O’Neale, Georgie Bryant, Joey Burns, Chris Harford, Maryke Henderson)

 Short courses / Masterclasses

2025       Aaron Scythe (Canberra Potters’)

2024      Prue Venables (Slow Clay Centre, Melbourne); Kazuya Ishida, Rob Linigen (Canberra Potters’); Simon Levin, Balmoral Pottery, NSW; John Dix (online)

2023      Malcolm Greenwood (Stoker Studio, Victoria); Akira Satake and Ken Matsuzaki (online); Jann Kesby,  Steve Harrison, Ben Richardson, Joey Burns, Anagama Firing (Sturt Craft Centre, NSW)

awards and recognition

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

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

2017     Japanese Foreign Minister’s Citation

exhibitions

2025      Canberra Potters’ Members’ Exhibition

2024      Canberra Potters’ Student/Teacher + Members’ Exhibitions

2023      Canberra Potters’ Student/Teacher Exhibition

curation and design

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

2014     Fushiki-an,  Contemporary Japanese Tea room reimagined in contemporary Australian materials (with Philip Leeson Architects, Rob Henry architect, Thor’s Hammer 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 by Sen Soshitsu XV, V. Dixon Morris, 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/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.