About…

Rebekah, a Ceramic Artist, originally from the UK moved to New Zealand with her family in 2005 she now works from her home at: The Kauri Tree Studio, Picton, Aotearoa New Zealand.

She gained a Diploma in Ceramic Arts (Level 6) from Otago Polytechnic, via Auckland Studio Potters, in 2013 and undertook studies in Sculpture, Life drawing & Design at Hungry Creek Art School Puhoi, Auckland.

Rebekah is represented by a number of select galleries throughout New Zealand and has works in private collections World wide.

She is a member of The Suter Art Society, Nelson.

She had 3 pieces of work selected into The Suter Gallery Bi annual exhibition:

“Fire & Earth - Contemporary Ceramics from the Top of the South” in 2022 & 2024

Living near the coast encourages her to be a watcher of water, enjoying a slow pace of living and making, becoming part of its ebb & flow.

Rebekah will occasionally incorporate local wild dug clay & slip or river sand into her ceramic work.

Pieces are sculptural & often biomorphic in design to express her fascination with the skeletal forms of plants & animals. The works becoming a vehicle to capture movement, time, light & shadow.

Her most recent body of work looks at the human figure; reductive, roughly & quickly modelled resulting in an inherent vitality of movement.

These forms are combined with a “plinth” which has a painterly surface created by a multiplicity of glazes, reminiscent of the ocean or seabed that is her local environment.

These works encourage you to get close, touch, explore from different viewpoints, hopefully enabling the viewer to connect with her in a

shared story of place.

 

Values:

Here at The Kauri Tree Studio we are constantly working towards best practice within the home, studio & business:

  • Mindful making to reduce waste

  • Solar powers our home & workshop whenever possible

  • Recycling water, returning this to the garden

  • Recycling Clay to be used again

  • Working with other small & local businesses

  • Choosing home compostable packaging

  • If we package your parcel using plastic wrapping, this material whilst not ideal, has been cleaned, repurposed/recycled & saved for us by family & friends

We are trying hard to make a difference.…if you have any other suggestions we would love to hear them.