Madeleine Child is a

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ceramicist Ceramic art is art made from ceramic materials, including clay. It may take forms including artistic pottery, including tableware, tiles, figurines and other sculpture. As one of the plastic arts, ceramic art is one of the visual arts. Whi ...

and teacher. She was born in Sydney in 1959 and moved to New Zealand in 1968.

Education

She holds a Ceramics Certificate from

Otago Polytechnic Otago Polytechnic was a public New Zealand tertiary education institute, centred in Dunedin with additional campuses in Cromwell and Auckland. Otago Polytechnic provided career-focused education and training, offering a range of New Zealand accr ...

, where she graduated in 1978. She went on to study a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Ceramics at Camberwell School of Art and Craft in

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in 1990 and in 1992 she graduated from London Royal College of Art with a Masters in Ceramics and Glass. She then went to Central Saint Martin's College of Art in London, enrolling in Advanced Studies (3D) and graduating in 1993.

Career

Child returned to New Zealand in 1994 and began working collaboratively with Philip Jarvis. Her work has been exhibited widely in New Zealand and internationally, including at the

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Pataka Museum Pātaka Art + Museum is a municipal museum and art gallery of Porirua City, New Zealand. Te Marae o Te Umu Kai o Hau is the name of the building where Pātaka Museum + Art is located and opened in 1998. It also houses the Porirua City Library, Ca ...

and at the International Ceramics Festival in Mino,

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. In 2008 her work was included in the

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exhibition the Magic of Mud, and in 2014 at the

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in Sleight of Hand. Her work is included in the collections of

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, the

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, the

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in New Zealand, and the

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in the

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. Madeleine Child taught at the

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in various roles between 1997 and 2011.

Awards and recognitions

Child was a finalist in the

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in Auckland in 2006–2008, 2011, 2012, and 2014, winning the Jury Award in 2013. She was a finalist in the Dunedin Art Awards in 2011, winning Second Prize, and again in 2013. In 2005, 2008, 2009 and 2012 she was a finalist in the

Portage Ceramic Awards The annual Portage Ceramic Awards is New Zealand's premier ceramics event. Established in 2001, the awards are funded by The Trusts Charitable Foundation and administered by Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery (formerly Lopdell House Gallery). A ...

, winning a Merit Award in 2008 and the joint Premier Award in 2009. Other recognition includes the Sidney Myer International Ceramics Premier Award in 2000, the Anthony Harper Contemporary Art Award,

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, and the Gold Coast Ceramic Award. Child received grants from

Creative New Zealand The Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa (Creative New Zealand) is the national arts development agency of the New Zealand government, investing in artists and arts organisations, offering capability building programmes and developing markets ...

in 1996, 2004, 2009 and 2011.

References

1959 births New Zealand potters New Zealand ceramicists New Zealand women potters New Zealand women ceramicists Living people Artists from Sydney Australian emigrants to New Zealand Alumni of Camberwell College of Arts Alumni of Central Saint Martins Alumni of the Royal College of Art Otago Polytechnic alumni Academic staff of Otago Polytechnic Australian expatriates in England New Zealand expatriates in England {{NewZealand-artist-stub