Portage Ceramic Awards

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. Established in 2001, the awards are funded by The Trusts Charitable Foundation and administered by Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery (formerly Lopdell House Gallery). A national award, the Portage Ceramics Awards also acknowledge West Auckland's long history of ceramic practice, dating back to 1852.[1]

The competition

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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.[2]

Residencies

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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.[3]

In 2014 a workshop scholarship to the Peters Valley School of Craft in New Jersey was awarded to Chris Weaver.[4]

Award winners

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Judges and winners of the Portage Ceramic Awards
Year Judge Premier award Runner-up or 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 Chris Weaver (second prize) 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 award: 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; Merits: Evelyn Hodowany, Elena Renker, Dorothy Waetford

References

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  1. ^ Portage Ceramic Awards 2001. Waitakere City, Auckland, New Zealand: Lopdell House Gallery. 2001. ISBN 9780958228404.
  2. ^ "Portage 20/20 - Te Uru". www.teuru.org.nz. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  3. ^ "Portage Ceramic Awards". The Big Idea. 18 October 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
  4. ^ "Premier Portage Award 2014". The Big Idea. 7 November 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2015.