Martin Poppelwell (New Zealand) ceramics

Martin Poppelwell was born in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand in 1969. He studied at the Whanganui Polytechnic, Diploma in Ceramic Design and Production, Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland in the early 1990s and the University of Otago, Otago Polytechnic, Fine Arts.

He later studied with, Ross Mitchell- Anyon, one of New Zealand’s most renowned potters, gaining a Diploma of Ceramic Design and Production at Wanganui Polytechnic. Poppelwell produced New Zealand pottery of a different kind - items such as a clay nose, cat, swan, skull, rabbit, ruler; all these objects were often placed together as the work of an art installation. As well as ceramics, Poppelwell has also worked within the mediums of printmaking, design, film, fashion, and textiles.

He has exhibited extensively in New Zealand public and private art institutions since the 1990s, including ‘Index: Martin Poppelwell’, Hastings City Art Gallery, 2016. His work is in the more... Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, NZ MTG, Hawkes Bay, NZ Lawrence B. Benenson Collection, New York, USA, Reydan Weiss Collection, NZ/ Germany and Reverand Ian Brown Collection, Australia.

His work is in the Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, NZ MTG, Hawkes Bay, NZ Lawrence B. Benenson Collection, New York, USA, Reydan Weiss Collection, NZ/ Germany and Reverend Ian Brown Collection, Australia. less...