2024 Mud Trail Members

  • Ben Ruble

    Ben Ruble - Wild Clay

    Authentic, contemporary ceramics to fit the Australian lifestyle. Here in this inspiring urban oasis you will find a sophisticated, fun mix of functional and sculptural works that bring joy and energy to any space. Catherine’s dedicated creativity results in lovingly crafted, playful works that honour both material and traditional skills.

  • Cara Asherovich

    Cara Asherovich - Mud On My Hands

    Cara makes contemporary stoneware and porcelain wheel thrown pieces, both sculptural and functional.

  • Aurelie Remetter - Caravane Ceramics

    Aurelie Remetter - Caravane Ceramics

    Aurelie creates functional ceramic ware to celebrate the everyday life.

    With a blend of technique and artistry vision she imagines and makes objects that put together creates colourful and playful scenes.

    Her studio is located in her garden where she lives in Mullumbimby.

  • Anthea Amore Ceramics

    Anthea Amore Ceramics

    Anthea makes hand built sculptures using various hand building techniques. She also makes high fired slip cast and hand built functional ware for every day use, using food safe glazes. She makes cups, bowls, little bowls and dishes, vase's and incense holders and smudge stick bowls. Her work is inspired by nature, especially her love of the ocean and often has an environment theme.

  • Heather Tulloch Belle Epoque Studio

    Heather Tulloch Belle Epoque Studio

    Heather combines illustration, text, and pattern to embellish her ceramics; referencing nature, femininity, and the poetry of life.

  • Kiriko Satsuma

    Kiriko Satsuma Ceramics

    Kiriko is a Japanese born artist.Her passion for cooking and creating tableware has attracted several restaurants to supply her original tableware.

    Her works are inspired by nature, and they were finished through this wood firing process.

  • Venessa Skye

    Venessa Skye Middle Pocket Pottery

    Venessa's practice forms everyday pieces, with a passion for vases. Reduction and woodfired, Venessa has a large woodkiln on her property.

  • Lauren Siemonsma

    Lauren Siemonsma - Ochre

    Creating unique and elegant homewares and jewellery. Detailing the natural tones and textured of the both the materiality and methods used to make each pieces, giving Ochres pieces and soft earthy ascetic.

  • Grace Chaplin

    Grace Chaplin - Muckware

    Grace makes wheel-thrown forms that are thoughtfully designed and crafted with intention to be used and enjoyed daily.

  • Lisa Mattas

    Lisa Mattas Ceramics

    Lisa works mainly with stoneware clays, as well as porcelain and terracotta, producing unique functional articles including urns, table, and tea ware. The stoneware articles are strong, food safe, ovenproof, dishwasher and microwave safe.

    She is especially interested in the wood firing process and how the fire transforms plastic clay to a stonelike and durable material. The interaction between clay and ash at temperatures of 1250-1280 C is visible in the distinctive ceramic pieces where the flames and ash have softly marked their path. Beautiful surfaces are achieved leaving the outside of the pot unglazed in places allowing the clay to speak, as well as by using ancient simple feldspathic glazes and oxides. I am also inspired by the lifelong research and learning my ceramic practice brings me. A large selection of vases, teapots, mugs, bowls, and other tableware are offered for sale for your pleasure and for beautiful gifts.

  • Lorraine Dean

    Lorraine Dean

    Lorraine Dean is a promising emerging ceramicist. Having previously studied theatrical costume and set design, she felt a natural progression to incorporate fabric into her ceramic practice. Her work seeks to explore the human condition and the intricacies that lay within. With a lot of trial and error, research and investigation, Lorraine has developed her own unique technique to create sculptural vessels that not only explore the relationship with ceramics and fabric but the connections to our own emotions and experience, the internal and external.

  • Lauren Hotson

    Lauren Hotson

    Lauren Hotson's artistic journey with clay commenced in childhood, evolving into a lifelong passion for molding tangible forms. Inspired by the intricate beauty of nature

    and a deep connection to the environment, Lauren's ceramic artistic pursuits span sculpture, functional vessels and decorative fine art.

    Hotson was born in Sydney, Australia in 1984, moved to New York City, USA in 2012, Bali, Indonesia in 2014 and has been based in Bundjalung nation (Northern Rivers NSW), Australia since 2023 where she established her studio. Hotson has a formal background in E-Business from The University of Technology Sydney and has a professional career in Digital Marketing.

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    Catherine Lane

    Authentic, contemporary ceramics to fit the Australian lifestyle. Here in this inspiring urban oasis you will find a sophisticated, fun mix of functional and sculptural works that bring joy and energy to any space. Catherine’s dedicated creativity results in lovingly crafted, playful works that honour both material and traditional skills.

  • Gudrun Klix

    Gudrun Klix

    Gudrun Klix produces functional work as well as sculptures and installations, utilising clay as a primary material. She is inspired by the beauty of nature, it’s power and fragility. Her work raises questions about the impact our lifestyles and practices have on the viability of our world and the planet.

  • Max McAuley

    Max McAuley

    Max has developed his own artistic expression focusing on surface decoration. He uses bowls and plates that are decorated with coloured slips using various techniques. Max never creates two pieces the same and loves experimenting. He works with his coach Claudia in a beautiful studio near Mullumbimby.

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    Melissa Lellouche

    ML Ceramics

    I create everyday handmade tableware and homewares using a slab roller and hand building. Each piece is unique and contains imperfections that add to their individual beauty.

  • Suvira McDonald

    Suvira McDonald

    What sets Suvira‘s work apart is colour: cool-tone classic glazes and those earth hues produced in his wood fired kiln. He produces high fired stoneware works which include many sculptural vessels and landscape abstractions. Central to his range of functional pieces are collections of wares for the daily rituals for tea, dining and flower arrangement.

  • Jacqui Sosnowski

    SOSCERAMICS

    Jacqui is a ceramic artist mainly working in alternative firing methods. She has concentrated on Obvara (12th Century Baltic technique using flour and yeast to make surface markings) and Japanese Raku. Her work is both sculptural and functional. She has a well-appointed showroom attached to her studio in a quaint back lane in Mullumbimby. She often does demonstration firings of her technique which is exciting and provides immediate gratification.

  • Tali Cohen-Flantz

    Tali Cohen-Flantz

    Keramika

    Tali is a visual artist working predominantly with clay. Expressing a love of the natural world, her work is an endless exploration of texture, colour and form. Working with the earth and the elements, her art practice explores the inner and outer world.

  • Carly Pascoe

    Coe Studio

    Carly is a ceramicist, artist, and designer from the Far North Coast of NSW. She first discovered clay as a 10-year-old when her mother, a potter, introduced her to the Pottery Wheel.

  • Hayden Youlley

    Hayden Youlley

    Influenced by an appreciation of life’s vast and diverse experiences and the importance of growing and learning from these, Hayden uses the lightness, translucency, mimicry and texture of porcelain and to push the material and his skills to their very breaking point to find a convergence of crafting and concept, in perfect synchronicity.

  • Natalia Torres Negreira

    Natalia Torres Negreira

    Ruby and Frank Ceramics

    Natalia makes a diverse range of hand-crafted functional-ware through to art sculptures using a variety of hand-building techniques. Currently working from Fairview Studio in Clunes.

  • Sasa Scheiner

    Sasa Scheiner

    Sasa’s artworks are hand-coiled and sprayed with her signature ash glaze which she makes with ash from her fireplace. The sprayed glaze mimics the effect achieved by wood-firing, enhancing the shape and movement of her sculptural pieces.

    Since 2012 Sasa has expanded and developed a range of now sought after unique functional tableware.

  • Lucy Be Phillips

    Lucy Be Phillips

    My pots are made on the wheel and are altered with the addition of slab constructed details. This approach presents an opportunity to manipulate the thrown elements, creating pieces with individuality.

  • Richard Jones

    Richard Jones

    Rainforest Ceramics

    My studio Rainforest Ceramics makes high fired functional and decorative pieces. The studio is set in a regenerating rainforest that inspires my work. We help save rainforest all over the world by making donations to Rainforest Trust.

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    Janet Fraser

    Hoofprint Pottery

    With the elements of life: earth, water and fire Janet creates her individual platters and vessels by slab and wheel. Influenced by living in New Guinea and travels to Japan and the Outback, using different clays and original glazes, each is unique, functional or decorative, reflecting her love of clay

  • Cheryl Campbell

    Cheryl Campbell

    I have been creating in Clay for over 40 years in the village of Burringbar at my studio. The entire process when working with clay, from the reclaiming of materials to the final firing brings me unsurmountable joy. I indulge myself into this creative practice and often time becomes irrelevant and I find happiness, peace and self-worth.

  • Brooke Jenkins

    Brooke Jenkins

    Brooke Jenkins is a ceramic artist working and living in Lismore on Bundjalung country. Through her exploration of clay, she creates tableware on the potter's wheel that delivers both function and beauty, enhancing our daily rituals and connection through food.

  • Sofie Neuendorf

    Sofie Neuendorf

    Lunio by Sofie' is a Northern Rivers based ceramic studio run by Sofie Neuendorf. Ten years ago Sofie fell in love with wheel throwing after taking lessons as a teenager. She went on to study a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) graduating in 2016.

  • Luke Atkinson

    Luke Atkinson

    Luke uses his background in design to influence his ceramic work, considering form, shape, space, line and texture. His work is contemporary with a twist of Mid-Century Modern, taking into account not only the piece itself, but the space in which it sits.

  • Natasha Paz

    Sunday Ceramics

    A collection of functional ceramic wares to elevate your space and daily routine. Working out of Fairview Studio.

  • John Stewart

    John Stewart

    John Stewart is renowned as both an innovative ceramic artist and a driving force behind the establishment of the Lismore TAFE Ceramics Department.