27 Nov 2022

2022 Portage Ceramic Awards

From Standing Room Only, 2:35 pm on 27 November 2022
Richard Penn - Artefacts

Photo: Photo Studio La Gonda

Richard Penn

Richard Penn Photo: supplied

 

An imagined series of puzzling artefacts from a time travelling civilisation has taken out this year's top Portage  Ceramic Award for their creator, Richard Penn.

His collection's called Artefacts.

Richard and his family moved to Aotearoa from South Africa just a couple of years ago. He's taught ceramics at Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland and  Otago Polytechnic and held residencies at Auckland Studio Potters and at Driving Creek Pottery in the Coromandel. 

Lynn Freeman asks Richard about his winning entry, which he says is part of a much larger body of work: