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 always experimenting - with form and with firing methods. Best known for her Obvara and Raku she is now working on low firing techniques.
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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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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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Jo Norton
Jo Norton is a Northern Rivers ceramic artist whose contemporary woodfired vessels and forms, fired at Middle Pocket Pottery, explore surface, process, ash, flame, and time.
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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
Lorraine of Lorr.De Ceramics creates sculptural vessels in porcelain and black clay that draw on the language of textiles and the handmade. Moving between larger statement pieces and intimate works, her practice explores fragility, connection, and the quiet presence held within material and form.
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Lucy Be
Lucy Be creates whimsical tableware by adding playful patterns and nostalgic colours to wheel thrown pieces
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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 enjoys making a diverse range of wheel-thrown functional wares to art sculptures using a variety of hand-building techniques.
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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.
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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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Raven Esque
Wood fired ceramic sculpture and tableware.
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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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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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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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Sara Gonzalez
Sara Gonzalez creates woodfired ceramics that reflect a deep engagement with process, material and place. Fired in the Anagama kiln at Middle Pocket Pottery, her work is shaped by the movement of flame, the accumulation of ash and the passage of time, with each piece carrying its own distinct story.
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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. -

Susannee 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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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’s pieces are a collaboration between artist and kiln. Her functional ware is woodfired for over 100 hours in her Anagama kiln at Middle Pocket. The long slow firing with the heat, time and ash, leaves its mark, giving her work a timeless sprit.
Drawing on her Maltese heritage, Venessa creates functional ware and large vessels, with an amphoric influence rooted in tradition. with the intention for each piece to carry its own voice, unique story, character and timelessness with soul and connection to the ancient.
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Victoria Keesing
Victoria has been designing and creating with clay, wood and mixed media over 25 years. 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. Using the form as her canvas, Victoria brings mark making, additions and surface treatments together to tell stories that are important to her.

