Muriwai Arts Trail 2010
Todd Douglas
Todd Douglas is an award-winning ceramic artist whose work is held in private and public collections in New Zealand and internationally. Todd’s work utilises a broad range of ceramic techniques and surface treatments including hand building and carving, which he often combines with slip-glazing and incredibly beautiful macro-crystalline glazes. His contemporary Maori work often combines carved clay with technical macro-crystalline glazes and lashing. The theme underlying this work is that they reference tools or functional objects such as paddles, canoe bailers, adzes, and platters. His second style of work is more ‘nature-based’ and includes work such as the Pods, the Solar Series. More recently, Todd has been developing work that is intimately linked to where he lives – surrounded by native bush but close to the crashing surf of Muriwai. These new series, Barnenome and Sea Secret are ‘creatures’ that have strong, and intimate connections to geology and biology.
