The Canberra Potters Market has been created to connect our fantastic community of makers directly with the public. With over a thousand visitors to our 2020 Christmas Fair and over 800 to our 2019 Emerging Makers Market, this market is promising to be one of our best yet!

The details:

The market is a pottery/ceramics focused market, so the majority of products for sale must be made out of clay, by the stallholder/business. We invite applications from emerging to established makers, although recommend you’ve held a stall at least one market before.  Interstate stallholders are also welcome to apply (but must comply with relevant Covic-19 restrictions).

Stallholders are required to provide their own stall set up within a space of up to 2m wide by 1.5m deep and provide staffing for their stall for the duration of the event. Stallholders are also required to complete all sales handling (unlike, for example, in our Christmas Fairs).

Pricing: 

CPS Member: $225.00

General Stallholder: $275.00

No additional commission is taken by Canberra Potters.

Once your application has been accepted, you will be invoiced the stallholder fee which is payable within 14 days.

Please read the Terms and Conditions for further details.

Australian Ceramics Open Studios (ACOS) is an annual nationwide weekend held event that celebrates clay, community and creativity. Hosted by The Australian Ceramics Association, over 100 ceramics studios – including many in and around Australia’s capital cities and regional centres – open their doors to offer insight, practical demonstrations and the chance to take home a handmade piece.

Canberra Potters is a not-for-profit community organisation, established in Canberra in 1975. Come and discover our two large teaching workshops, member’s workshop, kiln facilities, private studios, spacious gallery and retail shop. Enjoy two days full of demonstrations, artists talks and opportunities to purchase work directly from our artists.

About:

Canberra Potters is proud to present its annual Members’ Exhibition featuring some of the best work created by its members during the last twelve months.

The exhibition presents the inexhaustible breadth of ceramic arts through works using combinations of different clays, making, decorating and firing techniques to create works that are unique in form, texture and colour. Demonstrating the trends in contemporary ceramics practice, this is Canberra’s major ceramic show of the year.

An award pool of over $2000 is donated by our generous sponsors, with the premier award of the exhibition being the $1000 Doug Alexander Memorial Award.

The Doug Alexander Memorial Award:

Each year since 1990, Canberra Potters have given the Doug Alexander Award to an exceptional potter in our annual Members’ Exhibition. It is presented in celebration and honour of Doug Alexander who was the resident potter at Cuppacumbalong Arts and Craft Centre at Tharwa, from 1976 to 1981 – brought short by his untimely death.

Doug Alexander made a huge contribution to the development of functional ceramics in Australia and, when he moved to Canberra, Doug Alexander’s experience and knowledge gave a fillip to pottery in Canberra. This $1000 cash prize is proudly sponsored by Canberra Potters.
Information retrieved from Doug Alexander –  A Retrospective.

Canberra Potters’ Gardening Day

Join Canberra Potters staff and volunteers on Thursday 15 October for a gardening working bee! Canberra Potters has a beautiful, well-established garden which has been tended by many dedicated volunteers over the years. Our gardener Greg will be here on the day with a trailer and some oversight instructions.

We have a couple of garden beds which need to be planted and mulched, lots of weeding and a general garden tidy up. Whether you can spare half and hour or the whole day, we would love your help!

The Details:
When: 10am-4pm Thursday 15th October 2020

What to bring: Your own gardening tools/gloves and lunch

Canberra Potters will provide: Refreshments and morning/afternoon teas

No RSVP necessary, just show up on the day!