Join us to welcome Teapot Meditations: The practical poetry of Chris Weaver with a Coffee & Croissants conversation on the exhibitions first weekend open.

We'll be joined by potter Chris Weaver and exhibition curator Richard Fahey, who are both travelling to Ōtautahi to help us welcome this new exhibition to Sir Miles Warren Gallery.

The pair will share insights into the exhibiting Weaver ceramics from three decades, the potters distinctive and unconventional oeuvre and the thinking behind the exhibition.

Spaces are limited for this free event, register here.

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Chris Weaver is a critically acclaimed potter who lives in Kaniere, east of Hokitika, Te Waipounamu. He first encountered clay as a young boy when his father was digging steps in a bank at the bottom of the family property in Nelson. From this clay he fashioned his first pots and a lifetime fascination for the possibilities of pottery began. 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. Over the course of his professional career Weaver has accepted many invitations to travel 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.

Richard Fahey is a senior lecturer within the School of Creative Industries, Unitec, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, where he has taught design and contemporary art since 1992. His research activity is focused on the material culture of Aotearoa. As an independent writer, critic and advocate, he addresses contemporary cultural production and its reception via the historical and institutional contexts of education, critical discourse, collection and exhibition. His research takes the forms of writing, curating and participation in the visual arts sector as a teacher, assessor and critic. Fahey has produced a number of curated exhibitions for Objectspace related to his enthusiasm for contemporary ceramics: Clay Economies (2008), Richard Parker: Master of Craft (2010) and Tender Brick: The Material Epiphanies of Peter Hawkesby (2021).

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Coffee & Croissants is a conversation series supported by our friends at Allpress Espresso