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Membership of Ceramic Arts Queensland

Ceramic Arts Queensland is a not-for-profit organisation that was formed in Brisbane in 1968.
We foster an inclusive and unified ceramic art community in Queensland and Northern New South Wales.
Our mission is to elevate, celebrate and stimulate the ceramic arts in all sectors of society.
Advocacy – Fellowship – Learning – Endeavour

Learning. Exchanging ideas. Meeting fellow artists. All this and more in our regular workshops with some Australia's finest ceramic artists.

Ceramic Arts Queensland provides an up-to-date listing of key local, national and international exhibitions of ceramic arts.

Keep in touch with what's going on in the world of ceramic arts with our event calendar.

Join us for regular updates on the ceramic arts in Queensland. You also get discounts for workshops and can enter our anuual competitions. It's only $35 per year . . . so why not!

About Ceramic Arts Queensland (CAQ)

Ceramic Arts Qld (formerly Queensland Potters Association / Fusions) is a not-for-profit volunteer run organisation that was formed in Brisbane in 1968.

We foster an inclusive and unified ceramic art community in QLD and Northern NSW.

Ceramic Arts Queensland is a platform where members can share information, advertise events and access opportunity.

Our regular program includes:

  • An Annual Members Exhibition
  • The $2000 Siliceous Award for Ceramic Excellence
  • The Toolkit Workshop series
  • The Ceramics Arts Queensland Quarterly Bulletin publication which showcases ceramic specific articles, events and opportunities, and
  • The fortnightly Flash Bulletin through which we share current events and opportunities.

Ceramic Arts Queensland has an extensive ‘Permanent Collection’ of ceramic works created by artists from Australia and abroad.  This impressive collection has been acquired over the many years of our operation.

CAQ is run by a Board of Directors elected by our membership at our Annual General Meeting in March.

The Board meet monthly to ensure the organisation continues to meet the aims and philosophy of the founding members of the organisation.

CAQ is a public company limited by guarantee.

Selections from our Member's Gallery

Queensland has a long history of producing world-class potters and ceramic artists. That tradition lives on today with many of Australia's most innovative clay-workers living and working in the Sunshine state.

There are strong centers of excellence in the border districts, the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast, the central Brisbane areas and in the regional areas of the vast state of Queensland.

Many of the members of Ceramic Arts Queensland mount critically aclaimed exhibitions throughout Australia and internationally every year. We have gathered together the portfolios of many of these fine artists for you to browse their work.

Most of these artists have their own websites or galleries where their work can be purchased either online or in person at their studios or galleries.

Frances Smith

Frances Smith

Frances says she was always drawing and sculpting as a child. In the 1970’s, she was academically trained in graphic design at Sydney College of…
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Carol Stapleton Ceramics

Carol Stapleton Ceramics

I love every part of the process from producing the vessel and finding the plant to match it, to the sometimes intricate brush strokes and…
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Wendy Hodgson

Wendy Hodgson

I merged my love of large hand-building with my love of dogs by creating my own dogs in clay, then friends’ dogs and that was…
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Jennie Lisha

Jennie Lisha

When I was at school I was the only one in my class who was asked if she would like to drop Latin for Art,…
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Carol Forster

Carol Forster

For the past 40 years I have been excited, even a little obsessed with the challenge of working with clay.  I enjoy handling it, playing…
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Paul Holland

Paul Holland

Windmill Pottery owner, Paul Holland, has been working with clay over a forty-year period. Since moving to Sheldon on the bayside of Brisbane, he discovered…
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Shannon Garson

Shannon Garson

Shannon Garson makes a range of studio porcelain decorated with designs ranging from paddocks and dragonflies through to birdnests and rainforest flora. Shannon began her career…
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Bill Powell

Bill Powell

Bill Powell was born in Victoria in 1959 and moved to Queensland in 1971. He completed the Fine Arts Diploma at the Darling Downs Institute…
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Lisa Catherine Ehrich

Lisa Catherine Ehrich

I find working in clay is a wonderful way of balancing my other life in academia.  I am fascinated by faces and most of my…
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Linda Back

Linda Back

I was born in 1954 in Brisbane and have basically spent all of my life in Queensland, either in Brisbane or Townsville. Although I managed…
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Kris-Ann Ehrich

Kris-Ann Ehrich

My first love will always be 3D.  I have been working as a full-time sculptor for the past seven years surviving mainly on commissions for…
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Anne Mossman

Anne Mossman

Anne Mossman is a ceramic artist who creates collections of polished porcelain vessels. They are imbued with the textures, shapes and colours of her inherited…
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Emma MacGregor

Emma MacGregor

I am a second generation potter from Northern NSW and was privileged to grow up surrounded by art. From this background I have been exposed…
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John James

John James

John started potting in the late 1970’s and is self taught developing his pottery skills by attending  many workshops with talented tutors such as Merv…
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Kimberly Oberlin

Kimberly Oberlin

My name is Kimberly Oberlin and I’m originally from the small town of Angola, Indiana, USA but now living and creating in Australia. I’ve always…
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Laura Phillips

Laura Phillips

My love affair with the visual arts began with being introduced to copperplate writingand plaster of paris sculptures by my father from the age of…
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Evelyne Upton

Evelyne Upton

I once considered my daydreaming as a great flaw. A child growing up in Switzerland had to have ambitions to get a good job with…
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Tatsuya Tsutsui

Tatsuya Tsutsui

Tatsuya Tsutsui is a Japanese potter active in both Queensland and Japan.  His exquisite work Lotus 2017 won the Highly Commended award at the 2017…
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Sue Fraser

Sue Fraser

A life time of associations with horses and equine activities has provided me with an innate knowledge of the physical attributes of the horse. My…
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Mel Lumb Ceramics

Mel Lumb Ceramics

Working from a home studio in the beautiful Noosa hinterland, I create a mix of functional and sculptural homewares from high quality stoneware, raku and…
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Workshops, Exhibitions & Opportunities

To keep everyone up-to-date about ceramic arts and pottery events we provide a regularly updated database of workshops, lectures, exhibitions, residencies, sponsorships, grants and sales. 

These are listings are mainly focussed on happenings in Queensland and northern NSW, but if an event happens anywhere in Australia or internationally that will be of interest to potters, sculptors or ceramic artists, then Ceramic Arts Queensland will publish details of it. 

Here is a selection of upcoming events.

Upcoming Event Calendar

To see the events on in any month, just click to the month you are interested in our mini calendar. 

Or, for a more complete listing, click on one of the category buttons below the calendar. 

If you want to notify us of an event, click here.
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JamFactory Creative Director/Ceramics Studio Part Time Position

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Residencies at the Leach Pottery

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Project Manager

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