Judge, The Portage Ceramics Awards, 2021
AWARDS (1990 –)
Creative New Zealand Arts Grant toward creating new work, 2017
Premiere Award, Portage Ceramics Awards, New Zealand, 2015
Juror’s Award, Gyeonngi International Ceramic Biennale, South Korea, 2015
Creative New Zealand Investment Grant, 2009
Creative New Zealand Grant to create new work 2005
Premiere Award, Portage Ceramic Awards, New Zealand, 2004
Premiere Award, Norsewear Art Awards, 2004
Creative New Zealand Grant toward The Dowse exhibition catalogue 2002
1st World Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, Korea, Honourable Mention 2001
Creative New Zealand Grant to create new work, 2000
Antarctic Artist Fellowship 2000
Creative New Zealand Grant 1998 toward residency Shigaraki, Japan
Fletcher Challenge – Merit Award, 1997.
Norsewear Art Award 1997.
Fletcher Challenge 1994 – Judges Commendation
QEII Arts Council Grant 1993
Cleveland Ceramic Award – co-winner Premier Award, 1993
Norsewear Art Award – merit 1993
QEII Arts Council Grant 1990
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Everywhere I go, Bowen Galleries, Wellington
2019 E kōrero ana ngā rākau: ‘the trees are talking’, Bowen Galleries, Wellington, N.Z.
2019 I Too Am in Paradise II, Objectspace, Auckland, N.Z.
2016-17 I Too Am In Paradise, The Dowse, Lower Hutt, NZ.
2014 On A Plate, Bowen Galleries, Wellington, NZ.
2013 Wasters, Bowen Galleries, Wellington, N.Z.
2011 Fiat Lux, Rh Gallery at Woollaston, Upper Moutere, N.Z.
2009 Fragile, Bowen Galleries, Welliington, N.Z.
2006 Stow Cool, AVID Gallery, Wellington, N.Z.
2006 Designs on Antarctica, Michael Hirschfield Gallery at City Gallery, Wellington, NZ.
2005 Designs on Antarctica, Objectspace, Auckland, NZ.
2005 Homelight, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, NZ.
2004 Tabula Rasa? Part 1, Photospace, Canberra School of Arts, ANU, Canberra, Australia.
2003 Gifts of Civilization, AVID Gallery, Wellington, NZ.
2003 Terra Nova , Te Manawa Art Gallery, Palmerston North, NZ.
2002 Terra Nova, Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, NZ.
2000 A Fine Line, Wellington, NZ.
2000 South by Degrees, Gallery VC, Queenstown, NZ.
1998 A Southern Landscape, Masterworks, Auckland, NZ
1997 Memories of the Mainland, Avid Gallery, Wellington, NZ.
1992 Dual Nature, Pots of Ponsonby, Auckland, NZ.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS ( 1993 – )
2023-4 Te Mata Tūroa o Papa/This Natural World, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington,N.Z.
2016 Inspired: ceramics and jewellery shaped by the past, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongawera, Wellington, N.Z
2015 Portage Ceramics Awards, Te Uru, Auckland, NZ.
2015 Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, Korea.
2014 Notes: artists’ books on music, Bowen Galleries, Wellington, NZ.
2012 A View From Where I Was Sleeping , The Dowse, Lower Hutt, NZ.
2012 Raewyn Atkinson and Ben Webb, Rh Gallery, Woollaston Estate, Upper Moutere, NZ .
2011 Ruby: A 40 Year Love Affair with the Dowse, Lower Hutt, NZ.
2011 All Fired Up TSB Bank Wallace Art Centre, Auckland, NZ.
2010 “Korero & Huihua” International Ceramics in Conversation, Taiwan Ceramics Bienale, Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan.
2008 Crossing the Tasman, Bowen Galleries, Wellington, NZ.
2008 Symphonia Antarctica, The Dowse, Lower Hutt, NZ.
2007 Mad about Mud, The Dowse, Lower Hutt, NZ.
2006 Raewyn Atkinson and Kazu Nakagawa, Campbell Grant Galleries, Christchurch, NZ.
2005 NorseweART Award, Hawkes Bay Exhibition Centre, Hastings, NZ.
2005 James Wallace Art Award Touring Show, James Wallace Gallery, Auckland, Pataka Wellington, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch.
2004 The Portage Ceramic Awards, Lobdell House, Auckland, NZ.
2004 NorseweART Award, Hawkes Bay Exhibition Centre, Hastings, NZ.
2002 Conversation Pieces, Collaboration Works, Michael Hirschfield Gallery at City Gallery, Wellington, NZ.
2002 process idea+art? Raewyn Atkinson and Ann Verdcourt, selections from the Massey University Collection, Palmerston North, NZ.
2002 East-West Collaboration III, University of Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii.
2001 1st World Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, Korea
2000 Sidney Meyer Fund International Ceramics, Sheparton, Australia
2000 Millenium Medallions, City Gallery, Wellington, NZ.
1999 Sidney Meyer Fund International Ceramics, Shepparton, Australia.
1999 The Vessel , Guest Artist, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch.
1998 Fletcher Challenge Ceramic Awards, Auckland Museum, Auckland, NZ.
1997 Fletcher Challenge Ceramic Awards, Auckland Museum, Auckland, NZ.
1997 H2O, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, NZ.
1997 Aesthetic Departures- the Art of Death, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, NZ.
1994 Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Awards, Auckland Museum, NZ.
1993 Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Awards, Auckland Museum, NZ.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Te Papa Tongarewa, The National Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, N.Z.
City Art Collection, Wellington, N.Z.
The Dowse Museum, Wellington, N.Z.
Fletcher Challenge Collection, Auckland,N.Z.
Te Manawa, Palmerston North, N.Z.
Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ.
The Auckland Museum, N.Z.The Otago Museum, N.Z.
Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, N.Z.
The Bathhouse, Rotorua, NZ.James Wallace Collection, NZ.
The Kiwi Development Trust, Royal Sun Alliance Centre Collection, Auckland, NZ.
The Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki, Japan
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, U.S
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, New Zealand (Wellington), Fiji (Suva), U.S.(Washington).
Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, N.S.W. Australia
Russell McVeagh, Wellington Offices, N.Z.
The Glenn Schaeffer Collection
The Portage Collection
James Wallace Collection
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Marcia Morse, ‘Feats of Clay’, Honolulu Weekly,September 18-24, 2002.
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Janet Mansfield, ‘Contemporary Ceramic Art in Australia and New Zealand’,Craftsman House,1995.
Linda Niccol, ‘Home and Building, April/May, 1994
Helen Shamroth, Dual Nature, The Herald,1992.
Peter Gibbs, ‘The Glorious Goblet’. Craft New Zealand, Issue 36, Winter, p.18,1991.
TELEVISION
‘Nightline’, TV3, June 4, 2002
‘The Big Art Trip’, TV1, August 17, 2001
TV 3 6pm News, April, 2001
‘Nightline’, TV3, June 9, 2000
RADIO
‘What’s On’ with Lyn Freeman, interview, 6.15 p.m., Radio New Zealand 27 May, 2002