In a positive, industrious studio – full of good will – good things happen

 The Pottery project at Tennant Creek will utilise old and new equipment and materials.  The studio will be open for all Indigenous peoples in the Barkly region of the Northern Territory.
The focus will be:
1:  Re-introduce pottery to the local Indigenous Peoples.
2:  Maintain an Electric Kiln.
3:  Set up and equip a safe and healthy working environment as a Pottery Studio.
4:  Offer the local support and wellbeing groups of Tennant Creek and it’s surrounds, access to Pottery Workshops that will be suitable for various ages, abilities and preferences, at no cost to participants.

Your support will be greatly appreciated and essential for the success of this project.
The planned program is:
June:  Continue with old Kiln repair and set up the Pottery Studio. 
July 5th to September 10th:  Ten weeks of Pottery Workshops. 
Each week, Monday to Friday a morning structured workshop covering hand building, or sculptural pots, or slab domestic work using hump moulds on a potters wheel and or wheel throwing also  under-glaze decorating bisc fired pots. 
In the afternoons the studio will be open with supervision for individual pottery projects.
 Each Wednesday evening a structured workshop will be held for everyone.
Then every Saturday morning a structured workshop aimed at the youth of the area.
September 13th to 23rd:  Pottery Workshop at Urapunga Primary School, South East Arnhem Land.

This fund raising will cover some of these expenses and also my travelling costs to the NT and back home again to SEQLD.  I ask for no remuneration from the Communities for my skills as a Pottery Teacher, for my travel costs or for the materials and equipment that is supplied.  The Gofundme monies raised will assist with some of these costs and for the monies needed to have the kiln in a good safe working order.

I am a retired Queensland Potter.  Who tows her small caravan each year to the Northern Territory, solely to pass on the joy of working with clay to those less fortunate through isolation to access Ceramic tuition.  In a happy and creative environment, each person, young or old, male or female, is encouraged to work on their own projects independently, gaining confidence as their individual styles emerge.

In 2011, I re-established a similar Pottery at Wallace Rockhole, in the NT.  With my yearly visits and many generous donations; this Pottery has flourished and bloomed into a small cottage industry that sells the work to and from Galleries such as Yubu Napa at Alice Springs and the Voyages Galleries at Yulara.  I have also been running successful workshops at the remote Northern Territory Schools of Wallace Rockhole (Central Australia), Warruwi (South Goulbourn Island), Shepherdson College (Elcho Island), Yarralin, Timber Creek and Bulla Camp (North Western NT).  This year in September I shall be holding a similar pottery project at a small remote school, Urapunga (South East Arnhem Land).

I love doing what I do and in happy retirement, I wish to spend my time passing on the joy of working with clay and the peaceful enjoyment of being totally focused on being creative.

Please help this worthwhile cause.  Every dollar raised will be used directly on another successful outcome for Pottery in Remote Indigenous Communities.

Thank you to everyone who supports my Pottery projects, we make a great team and these successes belong also to you.  



Thank you to Nyinkka Nyunyu Arts and Culture and Julalikari at Tennant Creek for your ongoing interest and support with this project.