1. LES PETERKIN
CURRICULUM VITAE
1956 - Diploma of Ceramics, Mosman Evening College
1961 - 69 Teacher of Ceramics, Mosman Evening College
1969 - 72 Teacher of Arts and Ceramics, Church of England
Boys Grammar School, North Sydney.
1970 – 1980 Opened “Studio 52A” in Mosman, NSW. Ceramics
Teaching School.
1974 Commissioned to reproduce 700 pieces of 18th
And 19th
century pottery for Old Sydney Town at Gosford,
NSW.
Commissioned to reproduce period jug and basin sets for Old
Government House, Parramatta.
1975 – 1978 President of the Ceramic (antique) Collectors Society in Sydney.
1975 Invited by Jesse McNab to study antique pottery and porcelain
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and also studied
Chinese porcelain with the curator at the time.
1978 Study tour of the Sevres factory in Paris, and at the Royal
Copenhagen Porcelain Factory in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1981 Moved to Tyalgum, Northern New South Wales and established
the Bakehouse Pottery.
1986 Studied Antique Chinese Porcelain while making a film in China,
Hong Kong and Macau.
1989 Represented in the Gold Coast Ceramic Award in Surfers paradise
With a work titled “Earth, Sea & Sky”, a ceramic sound sculpture.
1990 Represented in the Gold Coast National Ceramic Award with a
work titled “ Cage Follie”, a bird cage.
1990 Ceramic sound sculpture titled “Song of Wollumbin” acquired
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2. by the Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW.
1991 Represented in the Gold Coast National Ceramic Award with a
work titled “Kaled-es-kopae”, a ceramic kaleidescope.
1992 Exhibition “Ding Dong Merrily on High” at the Bakehouse Pottery
in Tyalgum.
1992 Represented in an joint exhibition at the Tweed Regional Gallery.
- 5 local craft persons.
1993 Opened the new gallery “Bakehouse Pottery and Galleria Artisans”
at Tyalgum.
1993 Exhibition “Sign of the Fish” at Bakehouse Pottery and Galleria Artisans
at Tyalgum.
1994 Exhibition “Strictly for Birds” at Bakehouse Pottery and Galleria Artisans
at Tyalgum.
1995 Represented in exhibition “ Artists of the Tweed” at the Tweed Regional
Gallery.
1995 Exhibition “In a Country Garden” at the Bakehouse Pottery and Galleria
Artisans at Tyalgum.
1996 Exhibition “Guys and Dolls” at the Bakehouse Pottery and Galleria
Artisans at Tyalgum.
1997 Exhibition “Lets Face It” at the Bakehouse Pottery and Galleria Artisans at
Tyalgum.
1998 Represented Tweed Art Prize, Tweed Regional Gallery.
1998 Exhibition at Kyogle, the Cowgill Gallery, HorseShoe Creek,
NSW.
1995 Represented in an exhibition titled “Northern Resonances”,
6 North Coast potters in conjunction with Hyperclay ’98
at Gulgong, NSW.
1998 Exhibition “Blue and White Pottery & Porcelain at the
Bakehouse Pottery and Galleria Artisans at Tyalgum.
1998 Represented in the Encyclopaedia of Australian Potters Marks, and
The Australian Pottery Museum in Canberra, ACT.
1990 – 1998 Conducted school holiday workshops for children at the
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3. Tweed Regional Gallery.
Work periodically exhibited at the Contemporary Art & Design Gallery in Brisbane,
North Manly Garden Centre,
The C-Shop, Avalon,
Evergreen Gallery & Nursery Surfers Paradise,
Paralax Gallery, The Rocks Sydney.
Work purchased for galleries in New York and Seattle, Washington, USA.
1998 Invited to present a one-man exhibition at the Grafton Regional Gallery
in June 1999.
1999 Exhibited in Presiding Officers’ Acquisitive Craft Prize, Parliament House,
Canberra A.C.T.
1999 Exhibition “the Elements Fulfilled” GRAFTON REGIONAL GALLERY
LES PETERKIN
BAKEHOUSE POTTERY AND GALLERIA ARTISANS
23 COOLMAN STREET TYALGUM. NSW 2484.
Phone: (02) 66793 390
Website address: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~bakehouse
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