Welcome to the Quarry Arts Centre Fundraiser for 2024
Some Changes from previous years:
1. CUPS not Plates! Mugs, cups and saucers, teapots – as long as there is a cup somewhere as inspiration anything goes.
2. This exhibition will be on for 3 weeks, with the final week being auction week (7 days instead of 10 days). This will give more time for people to see the exhibition and work out what they will bid on.
Your Invitation
As with the Great Plate, The Creative Cup this is an opportunity for the Quarry community to gift back to the Centre, submitting work to help fundraise for key infrastructure.
Sculptural vs Domestic-ware
At The Great Plate events we have seen phenomenal sculptural riffs on a plate and we know that similar inspiration will come with working with a CUP as well.
Participants can either make their own cup/mug creation. If you are inspired to make a sculptural “cup”, not intended for drinking from, then any materials are welcome.
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Marilyn Wheeler, Julie Cromwell and Anabelle McCusker will be making cups for artists to beautify. To use one of these cups will be a $5 donation to recover some of the cost of clay and firing. Some of these mugs are now ready to pick up. Julie has requested that her mugs be made into food-safe mugs that can be used for drinking.
The Quarry can clear glaze work that has been underglazed to make food safe if needed. These mugs will need to be handed back to the quarry well ahead of time to get them through the kilns.
DATES
Last Day for Kiln firing: Saturday 29 June
Last day for Cup/Mug submissions: Saturday 6 July
Exhibition Opens Friday 12 July
Auction: Saturday 27 July – Friday 3 August
Closing Auction Party: Friday 3 August (BYO and nibbles very welcome)
Kiln Use
If you want to use the Quarry Kilns to glaze your work, this is available to Cup artists. You will need to write “Creative Cup” on your form so that you are not charged.
Photos
We would love some photos of you with your cup for promotional purposes, either working on your cup, or the finished piece. Send a photo to this email address if you are keen to be part of the promotions.
Want to be involved? Next Steps
If you haven’t already, email creative@quarryarts.org to let us know you want to be involved, and let us know if you will make your own Cup, or if you would like one made by one of our potters.
This will get you on the contact list for this year’s event.
Thank you so much for your interest!
Quarry Arts Team.
The Great Plate 2024 – Quarry Arts Annual Fundraiser
The Great Plate is the Quarry Art Centre’s annual fundraiser, helping raise money for the operations and special projects of New Zealand longest running community arts centre.
Each year artists from around Northland donate their time and artistic efforts to make and/or decorates a ‘plate’ (there are many interpretations about what a plate is). The plates are then auctioned on TradeMe, with the proceeds going to the Quarry Arts Centre for the continued maintenance and upgrades of the community kilns, buildings, and other special projects. We appreciate the artist’ contributions to keeping the Quarry Arts Centre alive and flourishing, and look forward to seeing this year’s creations!
Just some of our 2023 Great Plate artists!
The Great Plate 2022
Thank you to the throwers, artists, bidders and buyers for another successful fundraiser for the Quarry Arts Centre. In 2022 we raised $12500! This money will be put towards building a small wood-fire kiln so that potters can play with wood-firing on a smaller scale.
Our Top Selling Plate was won by Dell Pryor, and the People’s Choice Award was a three-way tie between Carol Robinson, Ida Edwards and Sheree Wagner. Each award receives $100 store credit to the Quarry Shop (with this year’s People’s Choice being split between the three wi
See the 3D plates the videos below
Clockwise from top-left: Sarah Bing,
Lynda Bell, Sheree Wagner, Cecilia de Donatis
The annual fundraiser for the Quarry Arts Centre raises money for the continued maintenance and upgrades of the community kilns and buildings. This enabled a brand new kiln to be purchased last year, and phase out an older kiln that no longer had the heat to complete glaze firings.
THE AUCTION and GALLERY OPENING NIGHT
Thursday 4th August, 5-7pm – Yvonne Rust Gallery.
AUCTION CLOSING PARTY
Sunday 14th August, 2-4pm. Bring a plate and come on down for our closing party, with Captain Jayman as the auctioneer commentator!