Newspaper Article 1990 – Pot scoops top award
Pot scoops top award
Hastings potter Bruce Martin has won the principal award from the United Group-Suter Art Gallery Awards.
The awards incorporated the 32nd National Exhibition of the New Zealand Society of Potters.
Mr Martin, a professional potter for 25 years, won with a large slab-built pot, which the judges said showed brilliant ash effects from the nine-day firing of the Anagama kiln.
Judges said his entry, one of 287 submitted by 93 potters, showed classic timeless simplicity.
Mr Martin has always been interested in the slab-building process and it is a known speciality of his work.
It was his third major success. He earned merit awards at the 1986 Fletcher Brownbuilt and 1987 Fletcher Challenge exhibitions.
Earlier this year Estelle Martin won the Norsewear Art Award.
Photo caption – AWARD-WINNING potter Bruce Martin, of Bridge Pa, (pictured left), prepares another firing of his kiln and (above) the slab pot which won him the prestigious United Group-Suter Art Gallery Award.
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25 May 1990Publisher
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