Teresa Peters is an artist and filmmaker based in Tamaki Makaurau, currently working
in clay and ceramics, photography and moving image. She is interested in bodies, earth bodies, forming
and transforming. Chemical compounds and molten entities, in intimate
combustion. ‘Excavating’ primordial totems’, as we move on into the
sixth mass extinction. Ceramics is alchemy. Earth, water, air… fire...
PORTAGE CERAMIC AWARDS IN SITU TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY
Image: In situ Te Uru Andrea Chatenier, Oliver Cain
Image: In situ Te Uru Andrea Chatenier, Oliver Cain
Portage 2021 presents the 33 works selected by Atkinson from 226 entries. The Premier Portage Ceramic Award for 2021 was awarded to Teresa Peters for ECHOES, the first photographic work to receive this title in the award’s 21-year history. Merit Awards were presented to Fiona Jack for Rahu bottles and Andrea du Chatenier for Softfall.
Congratulations to all of this year’s finalists, whose works appear
in the Portage Ceramic Awards exhibition. The Portage 2021 Finalists
are: Greg Barron, Blue Black, Phil Brooks, Oliver Cain, Madeleine Child,
Andrea du Chatenier, Liz Fea, Mel Ford, Emelia French, Mark Goody,
Fiona Jack, Jino Jeong, Chuck Joseph, Keum-Sun Lee & Sang-Sool Shim,
Matt McLean, Teresa Peters, Louise Rive, John Roy, Rick Rudd, Takaaki
Sakaguchi, Aaron Scythe, Liz Sharek, Duncan Shearer, Rebecca Steedman,
Marie Strauss and David Milne, Toby Twiss, Janna van Hasselt, Alex
Wilkinson and Ben Wilson.
Image: In situ Te Uru Andrea Chatenier, Oliver Cain