Our Residency at Driving Creek Pottery
In September 2025 we headed to Driving Creek Pottery for a four-week ceramic residency. The plan was simple: focus, play with clay, and push our practice forward. But in the first week, my lovely dad Steve passed away, so we spent the first two weeks at home with family. Steve was the most loving, caring, warm, playful, patient, and accepting dad—always smiling, always giggling, and cheeky in the very best way.
When we returned to Driving Creek, we created a small collection of work inspired by the forest floor around us—Riroriros, snails, slugs, moths, and centipedes. The series includes terracotta blue-and-white urns, bowls, and tumblers shaped by the soft, slow pulse of life and death moving through the forest floor at Driving Creek.
Our studio had a kick wheel, and that’s what Rich used to throw most of the forms on. Because of the kick wheel, the pieces came out a bit more wabi-sabi than usual, making one-of-a-kind, slow-made pottery. Each piece was then hand-decorated with a dirty cobalt line by my hand..
URNS | 2x Riroriro + 2x Death Snails
TUMBLERS x8
BOWLS | 1x Lg, 5x Med, 2x Sml
We really enjoyed our time at Driving Creek Pottery. Even with the detour life handed us, we left feeling inspired and grateful. We met a bunch of new artists from around Aotearoa and the world, and came home with a new body of work. We’d highly recommend that any artist apply for the Driving Creek Artist Residency
R&R x