MUD TRAIL ARTISTS
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Ben Ruble - Wild Nature Clay
Functional wheel thrown and hand built ceramics made from locally harvested clay in Upper Main Arm.
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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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Cara Asherovich - Mud On My Hands
Cara makes contemporary stoneware and porcelain wheel thrown pieces, both sculptural and functional.
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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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Elaine Richter
Elaine loves the process of hand building and using the ancient firing method of Raku.
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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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Gudrun Klix - Koonyum Clay Works
A renowned ceramicist and educator, Gudrun has worked with clay for over 40 years, exhibiting globally and drawing inspiration from Australia’s landscape.
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Hayden Youlley - Hayden Youlley Design
Hayden creates minimal, handmade porcelain tableware and cups, featuring unique crushed paper textures for elegant, functional designs.
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Heather Tulloch - Belle Époque Studio
Heather combines illustration, text, and pattern to embellish her ceramics; referencing nature, femininity, and the poetry of life.
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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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Kat Shapiro Wood - Safir Studio
Safir Studio centres around sensitively crafted wheel thrown tableware and ritual objects with a timeless, refined and minimal aesthetic of design.
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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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Lorraine Dean - Lorr.de Ceramics
Soft, touchable vessels alongside cast and altered pieces in whispers of pastel and the drama of black are Lorraine's signature.
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Lucy Be
Lucy’s 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 Atkinson Ceramics
Luke’s work is influenced by his career in graphic design, using some of the principles of design such as balance, proportion, contrast and unity to create a visual hierarchy. Luke feels that he is still designing, but this time, he is using the medium of clay.
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Melissa Lellouche - ML Ceramics
Melissa creates 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
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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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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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.
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Suvira McDonald - Studio Suvira
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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Venessa Skye - Middle Pocket Pottery
Venessa creates woodfired functional ware, specializing in vases and unique surfaces, crafting pieces that embody an ancient, timeless essence.
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Victoria Keesing
Victoria celebrates the world around her with marks and inclusions from the seashore, the garden and the slip trailer.
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Jessica Hart
Jessica Hart creates vibrant, floral-inspired functional ceramics, using playful colour and pattern to bring joy and beauty into everyday rituals.
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Susanne Fraser
Sue fires her sculptural and functional work in a Bourry Box kiln, where it is transformed by flame, wood and glaze into unique, unrepeatable surfaces
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Raven Esque
Wood fired ceramic sculpture and tableware.
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Rosemary Powell
Rosemary enjoys the spontenaity and unpredictablilty of clay, allowing each creation to evolve from the interaction between her hands and the clay.
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Rachel Varela - Satya Ceramics
Satya Ceramics is Rachel Varela, a local ceramicist who creates wheel-thrown functional stoneware tableware and unique midfire pieces in her Bangalow studio.
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Rachel Meader
Rachael is a full-time multidisciplinary artist working across ceramics, painting, and sculpture, inspired by nature, feminine form, and organic rhythms.

