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Mike Perry Potter - Ceramic Figures and Tableware


I started my training at Waimea pottery with the Laird family. I learnt to throw pots, use a clay press and learnt a little about glazes.

In 1992 I started producing tableware from my home studio. I started to notice an ever-
increasing mechanical theme in my work. It fused itself to my plates, and I haven't been able to shake it off. I guess it wasn't such a big surprise - my family owned the garage and were engineers in Mapua, Nelson. So I developed all sorts of practical skills, with metal and mechanics. And this exposure to all things mechanical soaked into my core, like sump oil through a tea strainer. It's deep down in there somewhere.

The durability of old machinery interests me. They often proved unreliable and wore out, but were designed to be fixed time and time again, and so acquired a soul, from history, and hands that touched and wore their parts. To me they work a lot like my mind - cogs clanking, possibly a grinding sound, some smoke, then I can perform simple tasks.

I draw a lot of inspiration for my ceramic work from this uncomplicated time when machines also performed simple tasks and thanked you for a bit of grease once and a while.

I am still producing tableware. I have made some great wedding sets with images and ideas depicting the lives of the happy couple. A wide range of designs is available and your ideas can be incorporated into the work.
All my tableware is hand thrown ,so has a good feel , good handles,and a nice balance .

Name Mowers
Price $131 each
Medium Ceramic
Status

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old fashioned red ceramic law mowers  by New Zealand artist Mike Perry
Name Chemical Child
Price $164.00
Medium Ceramic
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Chemical Child, ceramic boy walking through mud  by New Zealand artist Mike Perry
Name Sister Mary Piagio
Price $305.00
Medium Ceramic
Status

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Sister Mary Piagio, ceramic, nun on scooter, hangs on wall  by New Zealand artist Mike Perry
Name Sister Bernard
Price $305.00
Medium Ceramic
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Sister Bernard, wall hung ceramic art with man in nun clothing on a scooter  by New Zealand artist Mike Perry
Name Bless you Bernard
Price $327.00
Medium Ceramic
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Bless you Bernard, Ceramic wall art nun kissing man in nun clothing, by New Zealand artist Mike Perry
Name Sister Bernard
Price $382.00
Medium Ceramic
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sister Bernard, ceramic man in Nun clothing on ceramic moterbike,  by New Zealand artist Mike Perry
Name Woof Cup
Price $42
Medium Ceramic
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woof mug, ceramic mug with a dog on it  by New Zealand artist Mike Perry
Name Who do you think you are cowboy
Price $436
Medium Ceramic
Status

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Ceramic Art, Part animal part man pointing at topliss part animal part woman,  by New Zealand artist Mike Perry
Name DO YOU KNOW THIS MAN
Price $382
Medium Ceramic
Status

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Ceramic art, man on moterbike with flames down the side,  by New Zealand artist Mike Perry
Name Light Bulb Mug
Price $38
Medium Ceramic
Status

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Light bulb mug, ceramic,  by New Zealand artist Mike Perry
 

 
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