Brendan Adams Potter | NZ Studio Pottery
Brendan Adams Design is now happily ensconced in our Matakana home studio. We aim for two open days a year — one around the National Pottery Studio Open Day in the first week of November, and one around Waitangi weekend as part of the Mahurangi Artist Trail. Outside of that, Brendan's always producing work for a handful of galleries and pottery events around the country.
We're always happy to have visitors pop in and see the studio — just get in touch first to make sure we're home and have stuff worth showing you. We can now take Visa, direct credit, and of course cash.
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Upcoming Exhibition at Art By the Sea
Veiled Lanscapes
Brendan's next solo exhibition at Art by the Sea is call Veiled Landscape In this show Brendan has been working with multi-media. Wood, brass and steel, (even getting into some blacksmithing!) and of course incorporating his ceramic pieces into them.
You are invited to the exhibition is opening
Saturday 10 October 3pm
Art by the Sea
162 Hurstmere Road
Takapuna
Auckland
About Veiled Landscape Exhibition
The starting point for this exhibition is the landscapes we inhabit, and the hidden histories that lie beneath them — from objects like the colonial table, through to the big skies of the New Zealand landscape and the stories that run through it.
Brendan has expanded his practice to work across multiple materials — wood, steel, brass, and, of course, ceramics. He has relished letting the materials themselves take a strong voice in the look and emotional impact of the show.
From there, the idea of hidden meaning behind objects grew to encompass his own history and inheritance — from the offcuts of wood he'd carried around for years, just in case he might need them one day, to timber salvaged from beneath a house that had been in his family for over a century. It's interesting to consider what pieces become important to us, and what hidden histories lie beneath them.
"Veiled Landscapes" asks us to look again — at the land, at the objects we keep, and at ourselves — and to consider what's been covered over, and by whom.