Ben Richardson
b. 1951, Hobart, Tasmania
Currently, full-time professional practice with one day a week TAFE teaching
Resume
- 2003 - 04 Studies for MA (Design and Environment)
- 2001 - 05 Part-time teaching of ceramics, Art Craft and Design program, TAFE Tasmania, Hobart
- 1997 Artist in Residence, Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra
- 1995 - 97 Researcher for the development of world-class studio porcelain ‘Southern Ice'
- 1985 - 95 Part-time Lecturer in Ceramics, School of Art, University of Tasmania
- 1982 - Professional practice at Ridgeline Pottery specialising in woodfiring and the use of indigenous raw materials
- 1978 - 82 Studies in ceramics at the School of Art, Hobart
- 1972 BEcon University of Tasmania, Hobart
Recent exhibitions
- 2004 30 x 5, Akar Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
- 2004 The Naked Truth (international juried woodfire), Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
- 2004 The Naked Truth (international invitational woodfire), Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
- 2004 Beyond the Surface, Ceramic Art Gallery, Sydney
- 2004 Making a Journey in Place, University of Tasmania, Fine Art Gallery, Hobart
- 2003 Future Function, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney
- 2001 Response to the Island, The Long Gallery, Hobart
Publications
- 2004 'Reflecting place' Pottery in Australia Vol 43, No 4
- 2004 'Place of making - making from place In The Naked Truth' International Wood Fire Voices, Iowa, USA
- 2001 'Fat Boy - a testing kiln' The Log Book
- 2001 (with V Vaisanen) 'Northern spirit - southern fire' Pottery in Australia Vol 40, No 2
- 2001 'An interrupted journey' Pottery in Australia Vol 40, No 1
- 1999 'Out of the iron - glazes from raw materials' Ceramics Technical No 8, pp7 - 10
- 1998 'Glazes from local raw materials' Studio Potter Vol 1, No 27
- 1995 (with L Blakebrough) 'Southern Ice - development of a porcelain clay in Tasmania' Ceramics Technical No 1, pp3 - 15
Featured
- Mansfield, J, 1988 A collectors guide to Australian ceramics Craftsman House, Sydney
- Minogue, C & Sanderson, R, 2000 Wood-fired ceramics - contemporary practices A & C Black Publishers, London
