Artist CV
PETER DALLAS PHILLIPS
Teacher / Artist / kiln builder
After 7 years in production pottery, I crave more artmaking and kiln building. I am searching for opportunities to engage with my LGBTQIA+ community. I envision communal wood firing adventures, art exhibitions and residencies and workshops. In the last 10 years, I have attained a wide skill set in the ceramic arts and met some incredible humans working in woodfired ceramics. I place myself amongst these two communities, and seek to bridge a gap in education. I owe my passion and foundations to my teacher, Sandy Lockwood.
EXPERIENCE
Woodfire Workshop - facilitator and host collaboration with ClayTools July 2024
Bargo Pottery — catenary arch kiln build, ‘wombat’ Aug 2023
Strathnairn Arts Centre, Strathnairn — groundhog communal firing May 2023
Bargo Pottery, Bargo — founder July 2022 - present ● Management in: ● Term classes, wood firing workshops, private classes, ● private studio hire (Short term/long term) ● Urn manufacturing ● Firing services ● Selling resident artists artwork
STURT craft centre, Mittagong — ceramic Technician / Tutor May 2021 - December 2022 ● Studio Clean up and maintenance ● Clay and glaze preparation ● Kiln packing and firing ● Teacher in residence ● Glaze workshop teacher, aug 2022 ● Workshop assistant, winter wood fire workshop July 2022
DENBIGH, Cobbitty — mini-train kiln build ● Built for local woods, cone 6 salt fired ceramics, with local terracotta clay Sep 2021
Ceramics department, Nepean College / kingswood TAFE — OH&S officer April 2019 - March 2020 ● Equipment operating Safety ● Scheduling + Firing student work ● Cleaning Maintenance of clay / equipment / kiln furniture / glaze materials and storage ● Exhibition instal for arts department
Macarthur Ceramics Group, Cobbitty — Trough kiln build and fire workshop facilitator Sep 2019
Crematory Urns, various studio locations - business owner December 2018 - 2024 ● full-time contract to produce ceramic urns - aprox 400 wheel-thrown jars per month, both mid-fired and s/w gas fired ranges of styles and sizes.
Gooseneck Pottery — Robert Barron assistant Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
PIT FIRE PARTIES, varied locations - workshop coordinator for ceramic events to be hosted in suburban backyards at minimum financial and ecological costs. 2017 - 2020
Blackwattle Pottery Supplies — Retail Assistant Jan 2018 - march 2020, part-time ● Packing raw materials ● packing orders for shipment ● Customer sales
Balmoral Pottery, Balmoral Village — Assistant to Sandy lockwood Nov 2016 - Dec 2018 ● Live + work ● Wood prep / clay prep / cleaning and maintenance of studio / kiln repair ● Workshop and wood firing assistant
Mud Australia, Marrickville — Glaze Technician Nov 2016 - Aug 2017 ● Porcelain slip-casting factory, Part time position included: Fettling greenware, making + applying glaze
Kil’n it - Experimental Ceramics Studio, Glebe — Tech / Teacher Jan 2016 - June 2017, part-time ● NFP set up alongside Eloise Rankine and Rachel Macullum ● Managing classroom + glaze areas, firing student + members art works, stock, cleaning, OH&S officer, glaze technician, designing class content, teaching public + private beginners throwing. ● Inaugural, Artist in resident
Wheel-throwing workshop, National Art School — Simone Fraser’s assistant 2015
EDUCATION
National Art School, Darlinghurst NSW — bachelor of fine arts, ceramics major 2013 - 2015
North Wollongong Tafe, — Diploma in metal fabrication and welding 2017
Permiqueer — 8 week online course 2024
CONFERENCES
Edge Of The Shelf - Wood Fire conference, Mystery bay Volunteer 2014
Stepping up, Australian Ceramics Triennale — Attendee 2015
Gulgong, ceramic conference — Torbjørn Kvasbø’s assistant 2016
Smoke On The Water, Wood fire conference — volunteer 2017
Gulgong, ceramic conference — Craig Hartenberge + Renata Cassiano’s fire sculpture assistant 2018
EXHIBITIONS
Mini Vases, Small Gallery of Porter and Hudson, Picton, Solo exhibit November 2024 - May 2025
Deep Play, QHY Space, Marrickville - group show December 2024
Midwinter Ceramics Market, SHAC gallery, Robertson June 2024
Emergency Auction for Palestine Online auction Feb 2024
TACA OPEN STUDIOS - Bargo pottery Oct 2023
Dust to Table, Macarthur Ceramics Group, Campbelltown Art Gallery April 2022
Group Show, BDAS Bowral arts centre, February 2022
Sound walk tour, Sydney’s centennial Park July 2020 - participating sound artist
Artisans Night Market, STURT December 2019
‘Drowned river valley’ by Yasmin Smith,, Cockatoo Island 21st Sydney Biennale, 2018, contract work for kiln build
World Stage, Gulgong - delegates group show April 2018
ROT Factory 49, Marrickville - NAS alumni group show Aug 2017
Meanwhile, M2 GALLERY Surry hills - NAS alumni group show Sep 2016
Robin Gibson Gallery, Darlinghurst - Nas graduate highlights group show 2016
A fresh perspective, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Newtown - NAS graduate highlights group show April 2016
Graduate exhibition, NAS 2015 Library Stairwell, National Art School - 2nd year ceramic department group show July 2014
Fitzroy Falls, tourist centre Feb 2014
STOCKISTS
Ktk Baking co. Yanderra Sketch Cafe, Towradgi, The SHAC gallery, Robertson
AWARDS
Greenway art prize, Cooks River Leichhardt - runner up, small sculpture 2016
RESIDENCIES
Frontyard, Marrickville — Artist in residence (automatic drawing) December 1st - December 15th 2024
Bargo Pottery, Bargo — Resident Artist July 2022 - December 1st 2024
STURT craft center, Mittagong — Resident Teacher Term 3 2022
Kil’n it, Glebe - Artist in Residence July 2016- Jan 2017: produced soundscape album ‘Treat’ under ‘Outskert’