Richard Parker: Master of Craft

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Often described as 'a potter's potter', Richard Parker, internationally renowned award-winning maker and teacher, truly exemplifies the value of craftsmanship. Providing insight into the practice of this master maker this exhibition and an accompanying publication pay tribute to Parker, highlighting his substantial influence on the New Zealand ceramics tradition. The signature forms Parker uses - the plate, dish and vase - provide the foundation for a seemingly infinite variety of pattern, texture, and colour. Luscious glazes and a distinctive rhythm born of repetition, variation and duplication characterise his art.

On during White Night, 12 March, 6:pm - midnight

Parker has an enviable international reputation, and has exhibited widely over many years in New Zealand, Japan, Europe and the United States. His work is held in private and public collections throughout the world.   Richard Parker: Master of Craft will feature approximately 100 selected individual works that represent his distinctive ceramic practice.  Richard Parker: Master of Craft is curated for Objectspace by Auckland curator, writer, academic and one of New Zealand's most notable collectors of studio ceramics, Richard Fahey. Fahey's research is focused on the New Zealand studio pottery movement.

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IMAGE: Courtesy of Richard Parker

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