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Susie McMeekin was born while the family lived in Mittagong in 1954. She began potting in 1978 with her father, Ivan McMeekin, who established Sturt pottery and was a founding member of the Potters Society of Australia. Susie is one of the few second-generation potters in Australia. In 1989 she established her own studio in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney and has been working on her own since. She is slowly evolving her own style and although still adhering to the concept of using as many local materials as possible a few changes are occurring. Most of the materials she uses are found within a three-hour radius of her home giving her work a unique style of its own. | |
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Solo Exhibitions | |
2011 | After Fuping, East West Art Gallery,Kew, Melbourne |
2010 | Forte at the Kerrie Lowe Gallery King St Newtown |
2008 | Skepsi on Swanston, Melbourne, Victoria |
2007 | Cudgegong Gallery, Gulgong |
2003 | East and West Gallery, Melbourne. |
2002 | Victor Mace Fine Art Gallery, Brisbane. |
2000 | Ceramic Art Gallery, Paddington. |
1999 | Gallery on Lurline, Katoomba. |
1998 | Victor Mace Fine Art Gallery, Brisbane. |
1997 | Ceramic Art Gallery, Paddington. |
Group exhibitions | |
2011 | Woodfire Tasmania,50 Stories. Deloraine , Tasmania |
2011 | Woodfire Kerrie Lowe Gallery , Newtown, Sydney |
2010 | Fuping + 3 Masterworks Gallery, Ponsonby, Auckland N.Z. |
2010 | Friends Clay Energy Conference Gulgong N.S.W. |
2009 | Between Season Show, Cudgegong Gallery, Gulgong, N.S.W. |
2009 | Fuping-In Good Company Skepsi on Swanston, Mebourne, Victoria |
2008 | Woodfire Conferance Exhibition Sturt Gallery Mittagong N.S.W. |
2007 | Susie McMeekin and Malcolm Greenwood Freeland Gallery, Paddington,Sydney, N.S.W. |
2007 | Opening Exhibition Australasian Museum Fu Li Ceramic Art Museum, Fuping, Shaanxi Province, China |
2006 | McMeekin-Nealie Mura Clay Gallery. King St , Newtown, Sydney. N.S.W. |
2006 | Opening Exhibition Freeland Gallery , Paddington,Sydney, N.S.W. |
2005 | Earthly Encounters-Studio Ceramics of the Central West Orange Regional Gallery and travelling exhibition. |
2005 | Gulgong Connections Alpha House Gallery, Sherbourne, Dorset, U.K. |
2005 | Gulgong Connections The Gallery, Mayfair, London, U.K. |
2004 | Collectors Choice , by Victor Mace. Toowoomba Regional Gallery. Toowoomba, Q.L.D. |
2004 | Stepping Out Cudgegong Gallery Gulgong N.S.W. |
2004 | Sidney Myer International Ceramic Award Shepparton Regional Gallery. Shepparton, Victoria. |
2004 | Celebrating the Master Skepsi on Swanston, Melbourne , Victoria |
2004 | Art Singapore Concourse Level 3 , Suntec, Singapore. |
2003 | Sturt, 50th Anniversary Show Sturt craft Galleries , Mittagong. N.S.W. |
2003 | Ceramics , The Australian and New Zealand Context Campbelltown Regional Gallery. N.S.W. |
2003 | "The Second Wave" Australian Contempory Ceramics Inspired By the Orient. Fo Guang Yuan Art Gallery. Melbourne , Victoria. |
2002 | Ceramics Focus Bathurst Regional Gallery, N.S.W. |
2002 | Ceramics Connection Penrith Regional Gallery. |
2002 | Burton Manning McMeekin Ceramic Art Gallery Paddington, Sydney. |
1999 | "Ceramics, the Australian Context" Campbelltown Regional Gallery. N.S.W. |
1998 | Salad Days Ceramic Art Gallery. Paddington, Sydney. |
1997 | Nealie, Mcmeekin, Urvine. Oz Art Space , Katoomba |
1996 | Tea For Two National Ceramics Conferance. Canberra |
Awards | |
2002 | First Prize, ceramic section, Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Regional Art Gallery. |
2001 | Highly Commended, Ceramics Section. Sydney Royal Easter Show. |
First Prize, pottery section, Rhododendron Festival Art Show. | |
2000 | First Prize, ceramic section, Art in the Mountains, Blue Mountains Community Arts Council. |
1999 | First Prize, Rhododendron Festival Art Show. |
1997 | First Prize. Blue Mountains Art Prize. |
1980/1 | Australia Council Grant. |
Collections | |
Sturt Permanent Collection, Sturt Gallery Mittagong | |
Fu Li Ceramic Art Museum, Fuping, Shaanxi Province, China | |
Bendigo Regional Art Gallery. Victoria | |
Shepparton Regional Gallery. Victoria. | |
Bathurst Regional Gallery. New South Wales. | |
Private collections in Australia and overseas. | |
Articles | |
Australian Ceramics. Vol50, "Leading Us Where" | |
The Log Book "Travel Tales of a Stoker" by Susie McMeekin | |
Australian Ceramics Glasswork and Pottery Vol 9 No3 "Blossom Jar" by Susie McMeekin | |
Ceramic, Art and Perception no 59 "Remebrance of Things Past" by Kerry King. | |
Ceramic, Art and Perception no 53 “Ceramic Connections” by Jan Needham. | |
Ceramic, Art and Perception no 41 “Susie McMeekin: In her Fathers Fingerprints” by John Freeland | |
Pottery in Australia volume 41 no3 “A Holistic Approach” by Margaret Turton | |
Extra Curricula | |
Susie is currently a member of the Blue Mountains Cultural Partnerships Program Committee. | |
Susie is also a member of the South Katoomba Brigade in the Rural Fire Service | |
Commissions | |
2011 | Duke of Edinburgh Awards Australia commissioned and purchased gifts for the Royal Family and the Govenor General of Australia |
2011 | Set of dinner and side plates for Veechi Stuart |
2011 | Set of dinner plates for Piers Laverty. |