Portage Ceramic Awards
Illustration — Lilo by Peter Lange, winner of the 2006 Portage Ceramic Awards, on permanent display at the Lopdell House The annual Portage Ceramic Awards is New Zealand's premier ceramics event. A national award, the Portage Ceramics Awards also acknowledge West Auckland's long history of ceramic practice, dating back to 1852.
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Illustration — Lilo by Peter Lange, winner of the 2006 Portage Ceramic Awards, on permanent display at the Lopdell House The annual Portage Ceramic Awards is New Zealand's premier ceramics event. A national award, the Portage Ceramics Awards also acknowledge West Auckland's long history of ceramic practice, dating back to 1852.
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The competition
The competition
Entry is available to artists of New Zealand citizenship. The annual awards are judged each year by a different international judge, usually from the field of ceramics. An open call is made for entries, and since the third award onwards the judge has selected a group of finalists for exhibition. An exhibition is held at Te Uru and a publication produced. In 2020, due to complications from the Covid-19 pandemic, a survey exhibition of previous winners titled Portage 20/20 was presented in lieu of a competition.
Residencies
Residencies
In 2013 two international residencies were announced as part of the awards: the Guldagergaard residency in Skaelskor, Denmark, awarded to Richard Stratton and a residency in Medalta, Medicine Hat, Canada, awarded to Melissa Ford. In 2014 a workshop scholarship to the Peters Valley School of Craft in New Jersey was awarded to Chris Weaver.
Award winners
border="1" Judges and winners of the Portage Ceramic Awards • Year — Judge — Premier award — Residency award — Merit or other award • 2001 — Mitsuo Shoji — Tony Bond, Qumbilicums — Merit award: Chris Weaver; Waitākere artist award: Ted Dutch • 2002 — Michael Keighery — Richard Parker, Signals — Merit award: Kate Fitzharris; Waitākere artist award: Sanderson Kindleysides; Emergent artist award: Aidan Howse • 2003 — Julie Bartholomew — Penny Ericson, Six Days in a Southern Landscape — Merit award: Ann Verdcourt; Waitākere artist award: Susannah Bridges; Emergent artist award: Amanda Shanley • 2004 — Patsy Hely — Raewyn Atkinson, Cape Evans 2 — Merit award: John Roy; Waitākere artist award: Danny Rowlandson; Emergent artist award: Aya Sato • 2005 — Robert Bell — Merilyn Wiseman, Arctic Rim — Merit award: Helen Yau; Waitākere artist award: Claire Barton; Emergent artist award: Phillipa Durkin • 2006 — Bill Samuels — Peter Lange, Lilo — Merit awards: Owen Bartlett, Mark Mitchell; Waitākere artist award: Danny Rowlandson • 2007 — Jeff Shapiro — DeAnne Lawford-Smith, Keeping Quiet and Heart of Glass — Merit awards: Greg Barron, Tim Holman, Katherine Smyth, Onlie Ong; Waitākere artist award: John Parker • 2008 — Grace Cochrane — Matt McLean, Scaled Heights — Merit awards: Madeleine Child, Philipa Durkin, Tim Holman, Michael Michaels, Richard Parker, Helen Yau; Waitākere artist award: Sang Sool Shim & Keum Sun Lee • 2009 — Scott Chamberlin — Joint winners: Madeleine Child & Philip Jarvis, Doodads & Doodahs and Widespread Occurrence of Possible Symbioses / Jim Cooper, Drug Jars and Vendor — Merit awards: Phillipa Durkin, Emily Siddell, Kristy Palleson; Waitākere artist awards: Sang Sool Shim & Keum Sun Lee, John Parker • 2010 — Stephen Bowers — Kirsty Gardiner, Secrets A Jar — Merit awards: Greg Barron, Georgina Caulton, Kate Fitzharris, Melissa Ford, Rhonda Jameson, Duncan Shearer • 2011 — Janet Mansfield — Bridie Henderson, Feathers — Second prize: Chris Weaver; Merit awards: Brendan Adams, Maureen Allison, Kirsty Gardiner, Cheryl Oliver • 2012 — Paul Scott — Jim Cooper, Millbrook Holiday (the league for spiritual discovery) — Merit awards: Kate McLean, Fran Maguire • 2013 — Amy Gogarty — Robert Rapson, Himalaya Serves The World 1949 - Early 70s — Mel Ford, Richard Stratton — Merit awards: Marita Hewitt, Kim Henderson, Jane McCulla • 2014 — Takeshi Yasuda — Louise Rive, The Space Between — Chris Weaver — Merit awards: Kate Fitzharris, Madeleine Child, Duncan Shearer, Frank Checketts • 2015 — Ingrid Murphy — Raewyn Atkinson, Wasters III (Accumulate) — John Parker — Merit awards: Virginia Leonard, Paul Maseyk • 2016 — Janet DeBoos — Caroline Earley, Clinch VI — Greg Barron — Merit awards: Susannah Bridges, Jim Cooper, Mark Goody & Emily Siddell • 2017 — Emma Bugden — Richard Stratton, Forced Turn Teapot — Andrea du Chatenier — Merit awards: Cheryl Lucas, John Parker, Amanda Shanley • 2018 — Bari Ziperstein — Sang-Sool Shim and Keum-Sun Lee, In the Beautiful Dream — Merit Awards: Jim Cooper, Andrea du Chatenier, and Rick Rudd; honourable mention: Brendan Adams, Jinho Jeong, Peter Lange, John Roy and Susan St Lawrence • 2019 — Merran Esson — Mark Mitchell, Slice — Merit awards: Blue Black, Kylie Matheson; honourable mention: Aaron Scythe, Sang-Sool Shim and Keum-Sun Lee • 2021 — Raewyn Atkinson — Teresa Peters, ECHOES — Merit awards: Fiona Jack, Andrea du Chatenier • 2022 — Karl Chitham — Richard Penn, Artefacts — Second: Helen Perrett; Merit awards: Evelyn Hodowany, Elena Renker, Dorothy Waetford • 2023 — John Parker — Jino Jeong, Celestial Thread — Merit awards: Yueh Luo, Debbie Barber • 2024 — Kate Newby — Wendelien Bakker, Sea of Grass — Merit awards: Raukura Turei, Terry Bell, Ted Kindleysides • 2025 — Fiona Jack — Scott Brough, Four-sided Bottle — Merit awards: Jess Nicholson, Jamie Jenkins, Maak Bow
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