Chester Nealie
b. 1942, Rotorua, New Zealand
Currently, full-time studio potter
Resume
- 1991 Moved to Australia
- 1964 Began potting after instruction from Shoji Hamada, Takeichi Kawai and Michael Cardew
Selected exhibitions
- 2004 Stepping Out, Cudgegong Gallery, Gulgong, New South Wales
- 2003 Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award, Gold Coast, Queensland
- 2002 Etched in Fire (solo), Ceramic Art Gallery, Sydney
- 2001 International Fine Ceramics II, Alpha House Gallery, Dorset, UK
- 2000 Fusion - Ceramic 21, Mokpo International Ceramics, Pre-Expo 2000, Korea
- 2000 International Macsabal Woodfire Festival, Osan, Korea
- 2000 Ceramics - The Australian Context, Campbelltown, Sydney
- 1999 Torrents of Fire: Four Australian Woodfire Artists, Southern Illinois University, USA
- 1999 Different Stokes (international woodfire), Iowa, USA
- 1999 Pyrochromatics, International Symposium on Colour in Woodfired Ceramics, E Carolina, USA
- 1998 Gallery 16, Auckland, New Zealand, (solo)
- 1997 The Contemporary Teapot, Middlefart, Denmark
- 1997 Sidney Meyer Fund International Ceramic Award, Shepparton, Victoria
- 1996 Australian Woodfired Masterpieces, Green Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 1996 Australian Wood-Fire Survey 1996, Strathnairn Ceramics Association, ACT
- 1996 Australian Ceramics 1970 - 1996, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
- 1996 Japan/Australia Exchange Exhibition, Meitetsu, Nagoya, Japan
Featured
- Petherbridge, G, 2002 'Chester Nealie's ceramics: etched in fire' Ceramics Art and Perception No 49, pp33 - 40
- Schamroth, H, 1998 100 New Zealand craft artists Godwit, Auckland, p61
- Nealie, C, 1996 'Stacking the wood kiln for flashed colour and surface marking' Ceramics Technical No 2, pp24 - 31
- Mansfield, J, 1995 Contemporary ceramic art Craftsman House
- Measham, T, 1994 Treasures of the Powerhouse Museum Powerhouse Publishing, Sydney
- Nealie, C, 1991 'Subantarctic perceptions' Ceramics Art and Perception No 4
- Blumhardt, D & Brake, B, 1976 New Zealand potters, their work and words Reed
