Our NCC Members
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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.
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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.
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Gudrun Klix - Koonyum Clay Works
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.
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Hayden Youlley - Hayden Youlley Design
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.
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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.
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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
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Jay Richardson
Jay creates sculptural and functional ceramics inspired by rust, oxidation, and the beauty of material transformation over time.
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Jenn Johnston
Influenced by her appreciation of Japanese aesthetics and mid-century modern design, Jenn creates timeless and refined functional and sculptural ceramics.
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Jo Norton
Jo Norton is a ceramic artist living and working on Bundjalong Country in Northern Rivers, New South Wales. Her practice spans a diverse range of scales, from delicate porcelain vessels to large wood fired stoneware pieces and site-specific installations. Jo’s work has been exhibited here in Australia and is held in private collections here and overseas.
Her work continues to be driven by a deep understanding of form, proportion, texture and surface and since assisting in the construction of an Anagama kiln at Middle Pocket Pottery , her wood firing passion has become an important way to creates pieces that are rich in surface detail and depth. Inspired by the spherical form, she uses it to catch ash and flame, creating dynamic surface patterns.
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Linda Haigh
Linda Haigh is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice in ceramics and sculpture is deeply rooted in a reverence for the natural world. Her work thoughtfully explores the relationship between land, form, and memory, drawing inspiration from the textures, rhythms, and fragility of the Australian landscape.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Natalia Torres Negreira - Ruby & 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.
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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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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.
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Stefan Mager
Stefan Mager is a contemporary Australian sculptor known for his engaging and whimsical works. He wants to transform raw, unformed materials into visually pleasing and intellectually stimulating objects.
Stefan likes the simplicity of Japanese art, where imperfection, transience, and incompleteness are celebrated as authentic expressions of life. His environment, rich in exotic and colourful tropical life, continually inspires and delights him. He strives to create entertaining, curious, and slightly comical work.
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Susanne Fraser
Susanne Fraser is an award-winning Australian ceramic artist whose practice spans several decades and continents. Based in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Susanne is known for her expressive and evocative ceramic forms that often explore themes of nature, mythology, and cultural heritage. Her work is held in national and international collections, including the Grafton Regional Gallery, Byron Shire Council, and esteemed institutions in China and South Korea.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Anthea Amore
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.
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Blanche Alexander
Earthly shapes & natural hues form Blanche’s architecturally considered tableware. Each piece seeks beauty & function in equal measure.
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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.
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Carol Taylor - Clayhead Ceramics
Based in the Byron Shire, Carol works primarily with handbuilding, often incorporating wheel-thrown elements to create textural, sculptural forms. Repetition and earthy tones guide her process, with a focus on surface, softness, and natural rhythm. Each piece is an exploration of form and feeling quiet, tactile, and intentional.
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Cara Asherovich - Mud On My Hands
Cara makes contemporary stoneware and porcelain wheel thrown pieces, both sculptural and functional.
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Elaine Richter
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Heather Tulloch - Belle Epoque Studio
Heather combines illustration, text, and pattern to embellish her ceramics; referencing nature, femininity, and the poetry of life.
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Kat Shapiro - Safir Studio
SAFIR centres around sensitively crafted wheel thrown tableware and ritual objects with a timeless, refined and minimal aesthetic of design.
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Kiriko Satsuma
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.
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Grace Chaplin - Muckware
Grace makes wheel-thrown forms that are thoughtfully designed and crafted with intention to be used and enjoyed daily.
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John Stewart - Fairview Studio
John’s ceramic production has spanned more than 50 years. He started throwing on the wheel in 1972 and has since worked in most modes of ceramic production – hand forming, slip casting, jigger jolly, wood firing, decals and more.
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Lauren Hotson
Hotson’s work reflects the fragility and resilience of the natural world, with each piece showcasing textures, shapes, and forms inspired by the environment. She views her process as an ongoing meditation, allowing life force energy to guide her hands as she shapes clay. Her creations highlight her reverence for nature's complexity and the importance of environmental preservation.
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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.
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Lisa Mattas
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.
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Lorraine Dean - Lorr.de Ceramics
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.
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Samantha Robinson
Samantha exclusively unique handmade pieces use only the finest of porcelains and display unique characteristics that are evident in her use of form, colour and exquisite finishes. My work is inspired by nature and the everyday .
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Sofie Neuendorf - Lunio by Sofie
Sofie completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) graduating in 2016. During her studies, Sofie created 'Lunio by Sofie' as a creative outlet. Pieces are exclusively handmade by Sofie, bisque and glaze fired in variously fuelled kilns, including wood, gas and electricity. Her creations are functional objects to be used at home every day as well for special occasions.
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Venessa Skye - Middle Pocket Pottery
The making of Venessa’s pieces is always a collaboration between artist and kiln. Each work is woodfired for over 100 hours in her Anagama kiln, a process that allows the flame and ash to leave their mark, giving every piece its own personality and quiet shine.
Drawing on her Maltese heritage, Venessa creates functional ware and large vessels with an amphoric presence, rooted in tradition yet full of life.
Her intention is for each piece to carry its own voice—a unique story with depth, character, and timelessness. Through her work, she seeks to evoke a connection to something primal, grounded, and enduring.
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Victoria Keesing
Victoria has been designing and creating with clay and mixed media for the last 41/2years and with wood in the 20 years before that. She is inspired in equal measure by the colours and forms of the natural world around her and the built environment that resides with and often overtakes the natural world.