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Chris Weaver & Richard Stratton
Down to the Wire
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Chris Weaver
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Teapots and Pourer
2026
Salt fired stoneware, wooden handles, plastic
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Chris Weaver
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Tableware
2026
Salt fired stoneware, wooden handles, plastic
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Richard Stratton
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Cheryl Lucas
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Space Gym
2026
Glazed ceramic
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Cheryl Lucas
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Space Gym
2026
Glazed ceramic
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Cheryl Lucas
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Space Gym
2026
Glazed ceramic
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Cheryl Lucas
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Space Gym 3
2026
Glazed ceramic
125 x 145 x 125mm
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Cheryl Lucas
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Space Gym 3
2026
Glazed ceramic
125 x 145 x 125mm
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Cheryl Lucas
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Space Gym 1
2026
Glazed ceramic
147 x 156 x 118mm
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Cheryl Lucas
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Space Gym - Poke
2026
Glazed ceramic
132 x 108 x 75mm
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Cheryl Lucas
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Space Gym - Poke
2026
Glazed ceramic
132 x 108 x 75mm
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Cheryl Lucas
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Space Gym -Akimbo
2026
Glazed ceramic
105 x 100 x 100mm
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Richard Stratton
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Richard Stratton
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Richard Stratton
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Where Shadows Pass
2026
Ceramic, agate veneers, slips, lead glazes
305 x 150mm
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The Disco of Death in an Old Men's War
2025
Ceramic, agateware inlays, press moulded decoration, applied slips, lead glazes
220mm
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Richard Stratton
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Down to the Wire
Cheryl Lucas, Richard Stratton, Chris Weaver
10 Mar – 04 Apr 2026
Cheryl Lucas was born and raised in Tarras, Central Otago. She has a Diploma in Fine and Applied Art (Distinction Graphics) from Otago School of Art, Dunedin (1975) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Printmaking (Lithography) from Wimbledon College of Art, London (1979).
Cheryl taught ceramics and drawing for many years at Ara Institute. Since 2005 she has been working full time from her home studio in Lyttelton. Cheryl has exhibited regularly in NZ and overseas. Awards include Portage Ceramics Merit Award (2017), Sculpture on the Peninsula (2011) Premier Award.
Cheryl was the 2019 recipient of the Creative New Zealand Craft/Object Fellowship. Her solo exhibition Shaped by Schist and Scoria, celebrating her four-decade career, was held at Christchurch Art Gallery in August 2022. In 2025, Cheryl was awarded a New Zealand Arts Laureate Award. Her work is held in the collections of Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand; Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu; Canterbury Museum; The Arts House Trust, Museu del Cantir d’Argentona, Spain; FuLe International Contemporary Ceramic Art Museums, Fu Ping, Shaanxi, China; Lincoln University and Ara Institute.
Richard Stratton was born in Ōtepoti Dunedin in 1970. He graduated from Otago School of Art in 1993. He travelled extensively and worked as a production thrower at commercial potteries in England and Scotland before settling in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. His first solo exhibition, Nurturing Dialectics: A Legation of Teapots was held in 2007 at Anna Miles Gallery.
In 2010 Stratton was awarded the Dowse Art Museum Deane Award for Decorative Arts & Design. He took up a residency at the Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Centre, Denmark in 2015. He was awarded the premier Portage Ceramic Award in 2017. His Dowse Art Museum exhibition, Living History, toured the country in 2017-8.
Stratton’s work is represented in public and private collections including those of Auckland War Memorial Tāmaki Paenga Hira, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Dowse Art Museum, Te Papa Tongarewa and Tūhura Otago Museum. He is represented by Anna Miles Gallery.
Chris Weaver is a critically acclaimed potter who lives in Kaniere, east of Hokitika, Te Waipounamu. Weaver graduated from Otago Polytechnic, Ōtepoti Dunedin, in 1976 with a Diploma in Fine and Applied Arts (with distinction) in design and sculpture and a Certificate in Ceramics. His work has been exhibited throughout New Zealand and in Australia, Germany, the United States, China and Japan. Chris’ survey exhibition ’Teapot Meditations: The practical poetry of Chris Weaver’, curated by Richard Fahey, was exhibited at Objectspace in 2024.
Over the course of his professional career, Weaver has travelled both nationally and internationally, demonstrating, teaching and exhibiting. He is the recipient of numerous national awards and grants and is represented in public and private collections within Aotearoa and abroad.
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