Experience
Present Full time Studio Potter - Tutor
2019 Presenter ‘Spring Fever”
1996 - 2017 Resident Potter - Workshop Manager and tutor Canberra Potters.
1996 Established Spinning Gum Pottery, ACT
1993 - 1995 Artist in Residence at Duffcarrig, Camphill Community, Co.Wexford, IRE
1992 Three months working with Michael and Barbara Hawkins, Stroud, ENG
1991 - 1995 Self funded cycling tour to study pottery. Thailand, Malaysia, U.K
Continental Europe, Ireland, Canada and U.S.A.
1990 - 1991 Tenant at the Jam Factory Workshops, South Australia
Tutoring at South Australian Youth Training Centre
1991 Study at Underdale CAE, SA in Clay & Glaze Chemistry and Kiln
Design
1989 Traineeship at the Jam Factory Craft Workshops, SA
1986 - 1988 Tutoring at Aoraki Polytechnic, New Zealand
1986 Started full-time potting.
Awards
2018 Sydney Teapot Show Best Functional Teapot
Ignition Awards Highly Commended
2014 ‘Functional Teapot’ Flinders Teapot Show (Acquired)
2011 Best overall Sydney Teapot Show. Award- Melbourne Teapot Show
2010 Best overall Melbourne Teapot Show.
Best overall Fusions Gallery Teapot Show (Acquired)
Sydney Teapot Show ‘Classic Teapot' Award
2009 Sydney Teapot Show 'Perfect Form' Award
2004 Sydney Teapot Show ‘Perfectibilitea’ Award
2003 Mt Isa Art Exhibition (Acquired)
2000 First Prize Tableware Award - Mount Isa Art Exhibition
(Acquired)
1997 Highly Commended - Mount Isa Art Exhibition.
1991 First Prize - Blackwood Rotary Club Art Award.
First Prize - Tea Tree Gully Art Award (Acquired)
Exhibitions
2014 ‘Studio to Table’ joint exhibition with Rick Beviss
2009 'Symbiosis' joint exhibition with Brett Sheather
2006 ‘Impact’ Watling Galleries Brisbane Qld - selected exhibition of ACT ceramics
2005 ‘Thermocouple’ – Watson Arts Centre, ACT- joint exhibition with Cathy Franzi
1998 Swiss Embassy, ACT - solo exhibition
1997 Design Plus Gallery, Queanbeyan - solo exhibition
Gladstone, Qld - solo exhibition
1990 Jam Factory, South Australia - solo exhibition
1990 - 2024 Over 50 Group exhibitions
Publications I Commissions I Lectures I Demonstrations
Publications
2014 Journal of Australian Ceramics September issue
2011 Journal of Australian Ceramics April issue
2008 500 Plates and Chargers 500 Series Lark Books
1996 ‘Pottery In Australia’, Vol 35 No. 4, ‘Chris Harford – a profile’
Ceramic Review No. 157 – ‘Potting In Thailand’
1991 Ceramic Art and Perception, House and Garden
Australian Commissions
Commissioned works include :
Presentation platter to Sir William Deane -
Governor General of Australia
, 12 person dinner setting for the Swiss Ambassador
Tableware for Sage, Akiba, Aubergine, Les Bistronomes and Pilot
restaurants Canberra, ACT
International Commissions
Overseas commissions include:
Four tile murals in Duffcarrig, Ireland
Large breakfast buffet setting for the Hyatt Kingsgate Hotel in
Queenstown, New Zealand
Collections
Represented in private collections in Australia, United Kingdom,
New Zealand, Ireland and Japan. Public collections include
Tea Tree Gully Council Collection
Mount Isa Art Gallery
Fusions Gallery Brisbane, Flinders Gallery Victoria
Demonstrations I Workshops I Lectures
60 workshops in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and England