Guest Artist in Residence

Northcote Pottery Supplies is proud to offer emerging ceramic artists a three month residency program.

Our spacious, well lit, studio access space, provides artists the opportunity to develop and produce work, experiment or work on specific project outcomes. Artists in residence are able to focus on their creative work, as well as share their ideas and thoughts with the Northcote Pottery Supplies ceramics community.

2026 Guest Artists in Residence

Barry Spencer

“As an artist and designer I explore letterforms, code and clay to create pieces that aim to challenge and engage. Through clay I explore sculptural artworks and/or etched slab pieces [and I want to] create a connected and cohesive collection of vessels, tablets and sculptures using wheel thrown and slab building techniques. I want to push the boundaries of what I have already been creating through the exploration of surface textures and slips, glaze creation and application as well as different firing techniques.”

@speculatype

Elaheh Amini Tirani

“I am an Iranian artist based in Melbourne, founder of Elma Studio with an academic background in painting and a Master of Fine Arts. My ceramic practice explores the dialogue between form and texture. Working mainly through hand-building, I create sculptural vessels and functional forms that blur the boundaries between art and everyday use. During the residency, I plan to develop a new body of work titled “Fragment and Reconnection” continuing my exploration of transformation, identity, and natural forms. This project will focus on how fragmentation and reconstruction can represent emotional and physical renewal. I want to explore how the act of making itself can become a language—where gestures, marks, and the materiality of clay communicate meaning beyond any planned outcome.”

@elmastudio_

@elaheamini.artworks

Alice You Jeong Choi

“I am a sculptor and architect living between Seoul and Melbourne. My practice unfolds through clay—pressed, folded, and reduced until only what can endure remains. Water departs, fire insists, gravity holds. Each work is a negotiation between what the material wants and what survival allows, leaving a trace of being. This process is less about shaping objects than about listening to how matter becomes itself. This residency is a turning point: I will expand my Gravity series into works that test the edge of survival—where cracks and departures are not failures, but the evidence of endurance. The residency will allow me to bring these forms into being, to let them stand at the scale they have always asked for, carrying within them the traces of what clay remembers.”

@choiyoujeong_alice

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