Baye Pewhairangi Riddell
New Zealand, Ngāti Porou
Baye Pewhairangi Riddell began working with clay in 1974 as a studio potter in Christchurch, NZ. Since then he has worked back in his home area of Te Tai Rawhiti – the East Coast – primarily in Tokomaru Bay. He co founded Kaihanga Uku – Māori Ceramists Group in 1987 and this group has been responsible for a huge development in Māori ceramics and in fostering links with other indigenous clay artists. Baye Riddell has exhibited and run courses and workshops in marae, tertiary institutions and galleries throughout NZ and internationally.
“Baye Riddell is an artist whose work emerges from the soul of the land and the sea. His work sings of the land, like the earth mother gently beating out her heart rhythms in order to gather in her children. At times a profoundly religious man, he has developed symbols and new shapes to his work that rationalise his oneness with universal concepts. More recently his work has taken figurative form with new symbols while at the same time not losing the organic and earthy feel which typifies his best work.“
— Darcy Nicholas
Awards:
1989 Fulbright Scholarship
2001 Guest Artist – World Ceramics Expo – South Korea
2007 Toi Oahu Fellowship – Te Waka Toi / University of Hawaii
2011 Craft / Object Fellowship – Creative NZ
2012 MMVA – Massey University
2013 Guest Artist Changchun Sculpture Symposium, China
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