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Gallery Collection

Members' Gallery

Gallery Hours:    Friday & Saturday 10:00am – 3:00pm 

The Darling Downs Potters Club Gallery hosts a wide range of handmade, quality ceramic wares created by our Members. The wares are always being updated, so drop in and find a unique, special piece for your home or gift for a loved one.

Our Gallery offers cashless payments and Gift Certificates.

Master pottery

Masters Collection

Darling Down Pottery Club also cares for a treasured collection of master pottery that have important links with the club over the past 50 years.  

These inspirational pieces were either donated by or created by the artists during one-off workshops and demonstrations at our Club.

Each piece has been created with advanced skills and techniques to create works that inspire our members and visitors alike to take our skills further and continue to explore the artform.

Takeo Arakawa (Japan)

1990. Traditional Tea Cup. Fired in a Noborigama kiln to 1200C over 14 days and then 14 days to cool.

Celadon Bowl (Japan)

1983

Marianne Cole (S.A.)

1984. 30cm H x 16cm W. Fired in an electric kiln. Barium based dry glaze. Slip trailed and gold lust.

Takeo Arakawa (Tajimi, Japan)

September 1983

Phillip McConnell

1977. Rope patten (Tatsuzo Shimoaka), iron slip and shino glaze. Wood fired to 1250C.

Takeo Arakawa (Japan)

1983

Arthur Rosser (Mackay, QLD)

1987. 35cm H. Salt glazed. Wood fire kiln. Spray and poured slip decoration.

Helen Charles (Brisbane, QLD)

1987. 40cm x 44cm. Handbuilt with flattened coils of buff raku clay. Glazed by spraying with multi layers of dry barium glazes.

Barry Hayes (VIC)

23cm H x 19cm D

Robyn Stewart (Rose Park, SA)

1984. 12cm x 9cm. Fired in a gas kiln in a slightly reducing atmosphere to approximately cone 7. Wenger's porcelain, thinly thrown, carved and incised.

Jane Hamlyn (Nottingham -shire, UK)

1990. 8.5cm. Salt glazed natural gas fired kiln. Blue slip, textured rolled handle. Lines made with a small metal wheel from an old camera.

Janet DeBoos (Wee Jasper, Via Yass)

1983. 19cm x 20cm. Sponge stamp decoration using Ferric Oxide. Glazed with dry copper/barium glazes. Overlapped for effects, fired in an electric kiln 1200C.

Beryl Mayes (Toowoomba, QLD)

1993. Facets of Spring. Cesco underglaze colours and leather hard piece. Gas kiln 1280C.

Helen Nankivell (Spence, ACT)

1984. 54cm x 13cm. Sagga fired in an oil fired kiln to 1280C. The enclosed saggar contained combustible materials to produce the decorative carbon surface. Stamped decoration. No glazing.

Kevin Grealy

65cm D.

Derek Smith (TAS)

1975. 9cm x 15cm.

Ikuzo Sawa (Japan)

1983. Small stones in the clay body exploding in the final firing cause the white spots. Fired in Kanese-Gama kiln.

Tony Hutchinson & Bev Bloxam (Toowoomba, QLD)

1985. 30cm H. Wheel thrown piece with poured dry glazes.

Greg Daly (Melbourne, VIC)

1986. 42cm. Tenmoku glaze with wax resist and overglazed with chun glaze.

Salamander Potter (Toowoomba)

1988. 28cm x 28cm

Catherin Bennett (Cowra, NSW)

1986. 380cm D. Talc white glaze fired in an electric kiln. Blue and green pigment brushwork depicts Australian countryside.

Barry Hayes (Victoria)

1987. 30cm x 35cm. Pit Fired.

Ros Jones (Mackay, QLD)

1985. 10cm x 12cm x 15cm. Handbuilt saggar fired forms drawn from nature. Fired in a gas kiln with seaweed giving the blushed effect.