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    SHAPE of THINGS

    Jan 02, 2022 4 minutes
    by LINDA HERRICK

    When Auckland artist Teresa Peters took the top prize in the annual Portage Ceramic Awards last month, she was rewarded for challenging traditional concepts of the art form.

    Her winning work, ECHOES, is a large photo – 1500mm x 700mm – of a collection of indefinable hand-folded shapes made of raw clay, untouched by the transformative blast of the kiln.

    It’s the first time a photo has won the prize, now in its 22nd year, with judge Raewyn Atkinson noting that Peters had formed a bridge between two worlds: the primeval material of clay and contemporary digital technology.

    “The pieces in

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