
Present:
Practicing Ceramist
Lecturer in Ceramics at The National Art School Sydney Australia
1993-
2010 Lecturer in Ceramics National Art School and TAFE, Sydney Australia,
Practicing Ceramist
2003 Completed certificate IV in assessment and workplace training-
Practicing Ceramist
2001 Completed a Graduate Diploma, Visual Arts (majoring in ceramics) Monash University,
Practicing ceramist
1985-88 Sessional lecturer, Canberra School of Art, Australia Coordinator ANU Art Centre Pottery
Practicing ceramist
1981 Graduated with a Diploma of Visual Arts majoring in Ceramics, Canberra School of Art Aust
SOME SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011 Solo Show "Timelines" Sabbia Gallery Sydney
2011 Touring group show in Korea: "Together in Harmony" Celebrating 50 years of friendship between Korea and Aust.
2010 Sabbia Gallery winter show of represented artists
2009/10
"Bravura - 21st Century Australian Craft", Art Gallery Sth Aust, curator Robert Reason
2009 "Past and Present" solo, Narek Galleries, curator Karen O'Clery
2009 "Conversations" Sabbia Gallery Curator Kylie Johnston
2009 "Link" Ceramics from Kongju and Sydney. National Art School curator Katie Dyer.
2008/09 Wollongong City Gallery "Alan Peascod:influences and dialogue curators Craig Judd and Amanda Lawson
and then at the National Art School in association with The Australian Ceramics Triennale
2008 "Salute" A salute to Australian Ceramics" an invitational exhibition curated
by Janet Mansfield, Fusions Gallery, Brisbane Queensland
2007 Solo show, Narek Galleries, Tanja. Curator: Karen O'Clery
2007"Raw Earth" Group show Sabbia Gallery Sydney. Curator: Kylie Johnston
2006 "Clay Statements" digital Ceramic conference Brisbane curator Patsy Hely
2006 NGA retail outlet show supporting 'Transformations: the language of craft' exhibition
2005 "The Hollow and the Whole" Delmar gallery Syd.: Curators Merran Esson& R. Howard
2005 "Chilli" Cudgegon Gallery NSW group show curated by Merran Esson
2004 Mura Clay Gallery
2004 "Spectrum 2004" FONAS exhibition Parliament House Sydney
2003 "Rye Crop" Mura Clay Gallery Sydney
2003 "Out of Earth Symposium" exhibition. Art Centre Willoughby NSW
2003 Australian Stock Exchange , Reuters and FONAS show National Art School Sydney
2003 Ceramics: The Australian & New Zealand context. Campbelltown Regional Gallery
2003 "Love your work" : selected NSW TAFE staff show Muse Gallery SIT Ultimo Sydney
2002 Cowra Festival Art Award -Cowra Art Gallery
2002 Hornsby TAFE Ceramics Dept. Staff show
2001 Mura Clay Gallery
2001 Hornsby TAFE Ceramics Department Staff Show - Mura Clay Gallery
2000 Mura Clay gallery "10th Birthday show" Sydney
2000 Gallery Eight -Surfers Paradise QLD
2000 National Art School Staff Show -Cell Block NAS Sydney
1999 National Art School Staff Show, Mura Clay Gallery
1999 Solo Show Fusions Gallery Brisbane
1998 Solo show - Mura Clay Gallery Sydney
1998 Anita Ellis Gallery, Avalon NSW Curator: Anita Ellis
1998 Gold Coast Ceramic Award
1997 "Home Brand" - 50 ceramic artists -Casula Power House Sydney
1997 Mura Clay Gallery Sydney
1996 "Sense of Surface" Golden Canvas Gallery. Sydney. Curator: Anna Grigson
1996 "Potters 96" - In conjunction with the 8th Ceramic Conference, Solander Gallery. ACT
1995 "Clay and Cabernet" The Exhibition, Back to Back Galleries Newcastle
1995 "Juggling the Elements" Manly Art Gallery and Museum Sydney. Curator: Chris James
1995 Two person show Mura Clay Gallery. Sydney. Curator: Irene Schroder
1995 "Interlock" Artspace Gallery Staff and students from Ceramics Dept. National Art School
1995 Two person show Mura Clay Gallery. Sydney. Curator: Irene Schroeder
1995 "Interlock" Artspace Gallery Staff and students from Ceramics Dept. National Art School
1994 Mura Clay Gallery Sydney
1993 "Cutting Across" Craftspace Sydney
1992 Two person show Handmark Gallery Hobart. Curator: Pat Cleaveland
1991 Cicloppii Gallery Melbourne
1991 "Decorated Vessel" Nat. Ceramics Conf, Brisbane.curators: S.Outridge-field, S.Ostling
1991 "Aspects" RMIT gallery Melbourne. Curator: Kevin White and Pru Venables
1990 "Decorex" Melbourne
1990 Third Nat. Commonwealth Bank Ceramic Award, Canberra School of Art.Curator: P. Haynes
1990 Handmark Gallery, Hobart. Curator Pat Cleaveland.
1988 "Classics" Craft Centre Gallery, Sydney. Curator: Sue Hodge.
1988 "Exhibition of Ceramics" Jam Factory Gallery Adelaide. Curator: David O’Connor
1988 Second National Ceramic Award, Canberra School of Art, ACT. Curator: Peter Haynes
1987 26th Bathurst Art Purchase Exhibition. Curator Shirley Batty
1987 "The 1986 Ceramic Award" (formerly Mayfair) Melbourne Curated by Michael Crayford
1987 Selected work from "Ceramic Award". Devise Gallery, Melb. Curators: D. Mangan, P.Dodd
1987 "Fire and Earth, Contemporary Aust. Ceramics" Manly Gallery, Sydney Curator: M. Pursche
1987 "1987 North Queensland Ceramic Awards" Perc Tucker Gallery Qld. Curator Ross Searle
1987 "Six Canberra Ceramists" Potters Gallery, Sydney
1986 The Fletcher Brownbuilt Pottery Award, New Zealand. Judged by Jeff Mincham
1986 "First National Ceramics Award" Canberra School of Art. ACT Curated by Peter Haynes
1986 "Presentation Pieces" Potters Gallery Sydney. Curated by Potter’s Society of Australia
1986 Alice Craft Acquisition Award
1986 Museum and Art Galleries of Northern Territory 6th National Craft Acquisition Award
1986 Devise Gallery Melbourne. Curated by Di Mangan and Philip Dodd
1985 "Ceramics x 3" Canberra School of Art Gallery. ACT. Curated by Peter Haynes
1985 Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne
1985 "Office Environment" Crafts Council of the ACT. Curator: Meredith Hinchliffe
1985 "Funk and Non Func",Bitumen River Gallery, Canberra ACT
1985 Gold Coast Ceramic Award
1984 Solo Show Manuka Gallery, ACT curated by Margaret Moore
1984 New Artists Gallery Canberra ACT
1983 Two Person show at the Craft Council of the ACT Gallery
1982 Potters Gallery, Exhibiting Members Show. Sydney
1982 Women in Arts Festival. ACT
1982 National Craft Acquisition Award Northern Territory
1981 Final Year Students Exhibitions. Canberra School of Art. Curator: Peter Haynes
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia (2004)
Art Gallery of South Australia (2009)
Art Gallery of Western Australia (2011)
Campbelltown Regional Art Gallery NSW (2003)
Australian National University ACT
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Craft Council of the ACT
North Queensland Potters Association (Aquisitive award)
Canberra Potters Society
Nikko Hotel, Darling Harbour Sydney
Art Bank Collection
Manly Art Gallery and Museum ceramic collection
Perc Tucker Art Gallery collection, QLD
Hornsby TAFE Ceramics Department Collection
Elton John Art collection London
COMMISSIONS
Qantas Art Collection (three works displayed in the Chairman’s Lounge Melbourne) 1996
Crown Casino Melbourne (five works) 1997
Jerudong Resort Brunei (20 works commissioned by the Sultan) 1997
PUBLICATIONS AND ARTICLES:
Brett Ballard: "Ceramics Art and Perception" #85 pages 44-47
John McDonald: Sydney Morning Herald. Spectrum Review of "Timelines" solo show 2011 ,read it on www.johnmcdonald.net.au
Ray Hemachandra: "500 Vases Contemporary explorations of a timeless form" (2010)pp 201 & 348
Robert Reason: "Bravura:21st Century Australian Craft" catalogue essay 2009
Merran Esson: "Link: Cramics from Kongju + Sydney" catalogue essay 2009
Paul Donnelly: "Art Monthly Australia" Alan Peascod: influences and dialogue p35-37
Craig Judd & Amanda Lawson:"Alan Peascod: Influences & Dialogue" Art Gallery of Wollongong. catalogue essay 2008/9
The Vessel in Context
Profile by Nola Anderson. Published in Craft Arts International #71 (October 2007)
Elaine Henry: "Ceramics Art and Perception" #85 pp44-47
Janet Mansfield: “Ceramics Art and Perception”, #10, p78-79, #52, pp53-54 (2003),#54:81-84 (2004),#60:47-49,(2005); #69:90-92 (2007)
Craft Arts International" Ken Lockwood (Ed.): : No 1, 1982, p 48 Portfolio #1; #71 pp60-63
Nola Anderson: "Craft Arts International" #71 pp 60-63 (2007) “The Canberra Times”, 7th May 1984, p16;
Alan Peascod: Ceramics: Art and Perception. Simone Fraser's Vessel forms. No. 60 2005 pp 47-49
“Pottery in Australia”Sue Buckle (Ed): : 23/1:57, 24/2:27, 25/2:65, 26/4:62, 27/2:17 , 29/4:16, 32/2:48-49, 32/3:26-27, 74 -75, 34/4:51-52, 36/3:60
“Pottery in Australia”:Trish Dean (Ed): 40/2:23, 42/2:47 (2003)
"The Journal of Australian Ceramics Vicki Grima Ed.: #46/1 p8 (2007)# 50/1:p7
Australian Ceramics Directory: http://www.australianceramics.com/directory/
New Zealand Potter: No 2 1988, P 19
Janet Mansfield, “A Collector’s Guide to Modern Australian Ceramics, pp72, 73 & 118
Susan Stegall: Object Magazine: 1-97, P44
Sue Buckle (Ed.): “Potters Directory”, p55
Michael Bogel: “The Sydney Morning Herald” 1986
Sally Cleary: “The Canberra Times”: “Timespan” 16th May 1985.
Peter Haynes: ‘The Canberra Times”,7th Sept 1985, p B6,
Penny Holme :Contemporary Decorating, Australian Design Series: 1st issue 1988/89 front cover picture,
2nd issue 1988/89 PP 122-123
Meredith Hinchliffe: “The Canberra Times”; 12th November, 1984. “The Canberra Times”: 29th May ’85. “The Canberra Times”: 29th October 1985, p26
Niccola Holland: “Metro” Melb. September 1990 P2
Penelope Layland: “The Good Times”- Art: 1st May 1986, p6
Janet Mansfield: Artists/Galleries
“The Mercury” 19th December, 1992, p16
OTHER GENERAL PROFFESSIONAL PRACTICE
* Invited by Professor Ro Hae Sin to lecture at the Kongju University ceramics department 2010
* Demonstrator at the Australian Ceramics Triennale 2009.
Attended many National Ceramic conferences in Australia and presented a paper at the last Sydney Conference
* Given many artist talks, presented workshops in Aus and various tertiary institutions.
* Travelled extensively, researching many special subject areas relevant to my study and ceramic practice at the time
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