cv Neil Hoffmann Reedy Marsh, Tasmania, Australia 7304 Email: neilhoffmann@woodfiretasmania.com.au Website: www.neilhoffmann.com.au Instagram: neilhoffmannceramics _____________________________________________________________ Professional Activity 2018 Cultural Confluence International Woodfire Symposium, The Archie Bray Foundation, Montana, USA 2018 Master, Clay Gulgong International Ceramics Festival, NSW, Australia 2017 Quixotica wood firing workshop with Kim Jong Pil & Kim Se Wan, Qld. Australia 2015 Resident Artist, Gaya Ceramic Arts Center, Bali, Indonesia 2014 Kohila International Ceramics Symposium, Estonia 2014 La borne Potteries tour, France 2012 Study tour, village potteries, South India 2010-11 Convened Woodfire Tasmania 2011, an international gathering for wood fire practitioners and interested parties, Deloraine, Tasmania 1999-06 Part-time tutor, Academy of the Arts, University of Tasmania 2005 Residency, Jeff Oestreich Pottery, Minnesota, USA 2001 Master of Fine Art and Design, University of Tasmania 1999 Torbjorn Kvasbo workshop participant, Perth WA 1997 & 2000 Residency, Monks Pottery, Terania Creek, New South Wales 1996-01 Convened 7 Summer Schools at Reedy Marsh Pottery with wood-firing and salt glaze a focus. 1996 Study tour of Lombok village potteries, Indonesia 1994 Pottery Workshops for Atitjera and Engawalla indigenous communities, Central Australia 1988-89 Bricks and Beyond workshops at Zolati Brickworks (woodfired), Dulverton, Tasmania 1976 Work experience with Ian Sprague, Mungeribar Pottery, Victoria 1976 Completed Higher Diploma of Teaching, Major studies in Ceramics, Melbourne State College, Victoria 1975 Thrower at Kumpmann Pottery, Gottingen, Germany 1974-75 Study tour of UK potteries Exhibitions (selected) 2021 Flame Path, Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland 2020 Solo Studio Exhibition, Reedy Marsh, Tasmania 2020 The WOAD Less Travelled, Deloraine Creative Studios Gallery, Tasmania 2020 Pottery Expo Warrandyte Victoria 2019 Manifest – The art, craft, and design of contemporary Australian ceramics, Australian Ceramics Trienalle Hobart, Tasmania 2019 Holding Space, PW1, Australian Ceramics Trienalle, Hobart, Tasmania 2019 Making Place, Wilderness Gallery, Cradle Mountain National Park, Tasmania 2018 Presenters Exhibition, Cultural Confluence Symposium, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena,Montana, USA 2018 Clay Gulgong 2018 Masters Exhibition, Gulgong, NSW, Australia 2017 Cluj International Ceramics Biennale 2017, Romania 2017 Clunes Ceramic Award, Clunes, Victoria, Australia 2017 A Culture of Pots: The 25th Anniversary of the St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour, Weisman Art Museum, Minnesota, USA 2017 26th South, Wood Firers Exhibition – Smoke On the Water, Cooroy, Queensland 2017 Inflamed: Impassioned wood firing, Makers Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland 2017 Woodfire 2017, Kerry Lowe Gallery, Sydney NSW 2016 Invitational Exhibition, International Wood Fire Conference, Waubonsee, USA 2016 Studio exhibition: Reedy Marsh Pottery, Tasmania 2016 Woodfire 2016, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Sydney 2016 Cuppa: A Cup Survey, Makers Gallery, Brisbane, Qld 2015 Kohila International Ceramics Symposium-15 years, curated by Kari Pekka Paik (Finland) Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia 2015 Earth: the matter of us, Gaya Ceramics & Design Gallery, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia 2015 Common Differences, Mansfield Ceramics Gallery, Sydney 2014 Presenters Exhibition, 2nd European Wood Fire Conference, Denmark 2014 Kohila International Symposium Exhibition, Tohisoo Manor Park, Estonia 2014 From The Book, Ivy Hill Gallery, Wapengo, NSW 2014 Exhibition of Australian Ceramics: A Tribute to Janet Mansfield OAM (1934–2013) Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne 2014 Passing It On: From Bernard Leach to Jeff Oestreich to the Midwest and Beyond, Craft in America Centre, Los Angeles, USA 2013 Windows On the Arts Deloraine 13, Street Gallery, Tasmanian Craft Fair 2013 Open Studio exhibition, Reedy Marsh pottery, Tasmania 2013 Cluj International Ceramics Biennale, Romania 2013 Woodfire 2013 Kerry Lowe Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2013 Oscas, Open studio and exhibition, Reedy Marsh, Tasmania 2013 Green Art 2013, Long Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania 2013 The Bucket Show, Forum Art Gallery, Chennai, India 2012 Serendipity – Woodfired Sculptural Ceramics, Crimson Laurel Gallery, North Carolina, USA 2012 Jeff Shapiro and Friends, Auroville gallery, South India 2011 The Art of Woodfire, Skepsi Gallery, Melbourne, Australia2011 Inside Woodfire –Fifty Australian Stories, Gallery 9, Deloraine Tas 2010 Wychwood Garden Art Exhibition, Mole Creek, Tas 2010 The Art of Woodfire, Front Room Gallery, Gulgong, NSW 2010 Green Art 2010, Long Galley, Tasmania 2009 Two Paths, Freeland Gallery Paddington NSW 2009 Working Fire, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, Tas 2008 Artifakt Ten Years, Artifakt Gallery, Tasmania 2008 Outside the Square, Sturt Woodfire 2008, NSW 2007 Clay Edge Delegate Show, Memorial Hall, Gulgong NSW 2006 Common Matter, solo show, Artifakt Gallery, Tas 2006 Encrusted, Skepsi Gallery, Melbourne 2006 Fifty trees of Launceston, Academy Gallery, Launceston, Tas 2005 Clay & Beyond, Academy Gallery, Launceston Tas. 2005 St Croix Valley Studio Exhib. Oestreich Pottery, Minnesota, USA 2005 Australian Woodfire Survey 2005, Canberra ACT 2004 Tasmanica 04, Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart 2003 Beneath the Tiers, Artifakt Gallery, Tasmania 2003 Staff Exhibition, Academy Of The Arts, Launceston 2002 Spring Pots, solo show, Artifakt Gallery Deloraine 2002 Guest Artist, Tas Art Exhibition, Burnie Regional Art Gallery 2002 Glass and Ceramics as Sculptures, Freeman Gallery 3, Hobart 2001 Moving Ground -selected works, solo, UTAS, NW Campus 2002 Moving Ground, solo, University of Tasmania, Academy Gallery 2002 St Croix Valley Studio Exhib. Oestreich Pottery, Minnesota, USA 2001 Tasmania – Beyond Imagination, Mannheim, Germany 2001 Moving Ground, solo, Stillwater Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania 2001 Tasmanica 01, Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart 2001 Clayfeast tableware exhibition, Gulgong, NSW 2001 Claydown Tasmania 2001 Tutors Exhibition, Artifakt, Tasmania. 2000 Gold Coast International Art Award 2000, Queensland 2000 Sidney Myer Intl Ceramic Award 2000. Gallery 101 Melbourne 1999 The Tasmanian Exhibition 1999, Deloraine, Tasmania 1999 Gold Coast International Art Award 1999, Queensland 1999 Clay x 4, New Collectables Gallery, Perth,Western Australia 1998 Naked Clay, Galerie Babel, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1998 Hyperblaster Exhibition, Stables Gallery, Mudgee NSW 1998 Raining Like…, Despard Gallery, Hobart Tasmania 1997 Animate Earth, solo, Nisart Gallery, Launceston Tasmania 1997 New Tasmanian Artists, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney 1996 Australian Woodfire Survey, Strathnairn, Canberra, ACT 1995 & 96 Out of Hand, Gallery 9, Deloraine, Tasmania 1994 Vessels – The Object of Holding, Arcoona, Deloraine, Tasmania 1993 – 99 7NT Tasmanian Art Exhibition, Burnie, Tasmania1992 Woodfire’92 -Conference Exhibition, Lismore, NSW 1990-98 Tasmanian Craft Fairexhibitions, Deloraine Tas. 1989 Bricks and Beyond, Devonport Art Gallery, Tas 1988 Bricks and Beyond, Cockatoo Gallery, Tasmania 1982 – 97 Annual Solo Exhibitions at Reedy Marsh Pottery, Tasmania 1979 & 80 Solo exhibitions, Mechanics Hall, St Arnaud, Victoria Collections (selected) 2015 Gaya Ceramic Arts Centre, Collection of Works by Resident Artists, Bali, Indonesia 2014 Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center Collection, Denmark 2014 Kohila International Ceramics Symposium Collection, Estonia 2013 Ceramart Foundation and Ceramics Now Association Public Collection, Cluj-Napoca, Romania 2009 National Gallery of Australia, Australian Art Collection, Canberra, Australia 2001 Frederick Wiseman Museum, Minneapolis, USA Recent presentations 2018 Earth & Us, Clay Gulgong 2018 Master’s presentation, Gulgong NSW 2016 Mind over matter, Slow Clay Centre, Melbourne 2016 Earth – the matter of us, Ceramics Centre for Excellence, corroy, Qld 2015 Earth – the matter of us, Gaya Ceramic Arts Center, Bali, Indonesia 2014 A changing practice … a practice for change, Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center, Denmark 2014 Imagining Genesis by earth & fire, Kohila International Ceramics Symposium, Estonia 2012 A changing practice … a practice for change, Australian Triennale, Subversive Clay, Adelaide, South Australia 2012 Recent sculptural ceramics by Neil Hoffmann, Architecture School (RV College of Engineering), Bangalore, India 2012 Imagining Genesis, Golden Bridge Pottery, Tamil Nadu, South India 2010 Imagining Genesis, School of Geography and Environment, University of Tasmania, Hobart 2008 Common Matter, Australian National Woodfire Conference, Sturt, NSW Published references and writings (selected) 2018 Ceramics: Art & Perception #109 p44 [reflections on a work, written by Neil Hoffmann] 2017 The Book of Mick, the life of a potter as imagined by 18 authors. Duck Books, Chapter 3 by Neil Hoffmann 2015 Thirteen Ways of Looking at Fire: Award winning Australian writer John Hughes responds to the work of Neil Hoffmann, Yarrobil Ceramics Magazine #1 2015 Beneath the Fire – a chronology of wood-fired sculptural work by Neil Hoffmann, The Log Book #61 2014 The International Ceramics Symposium Kohila, by Kristin Orav [online article, Estonian text, http://www.helilaine.ee] 2014 Catalogue, On The Edge Of The Shelf International Woodfire Festival, Mystery Bay Australia 2014 2011 The Art of Woodfire, by Owen Rye, Mansfield Press 2010 Ceramics Technical #31, Working Fire, by Penny Smith 2009 The Log Book #40, an edited transcript of a stills based video produced by Glen Dunn titled ‘the guts of it’ (words by Neil Hoffmann) http://vimeo.com/4820706 2009 The Journal of Aust. Ceramics Vol. 48 / 3, Working Fire by Jo McIntyre. 2009 Ceramics: Art & Perception #75, Politics and Primordial Time: Neil Hoffmann’s Grand and Seamless Aesthetic, by Pete Hay 2008 The Journal of Aust. Ceramics Vol. 47 / 2, Sturt Woodfire ’08 by Barbara Cambell- Allen 2002 Pottery in Australia vol. 41 no 1, Landscape Land and Nature, Vincent McGrath 2003 Sydney Myer Fund International Ceramics Award, exhibition review by Peter Timms, The Age, 10 May 2000 2000 Wood-fired Ceramics, contemporary practices, Coll Minogue & Robert Sanderson 2000 Review, Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award 1999, Gordon Foulds, Ceramics: Art & Perception # 40 1999 Pottery In Australia vol. 38 no 3, Exhibition review, Sue Buckle 1998 Craft Arts International Issue 43. Portfolio Page no.172 1996 Ceramics: Art & Perception # 24 Touching the Wild, Jim Nelson Awards (selected) 2020: Potters Prize, Pottery Expo, Warrandyte Victoria 2017: Honourable Mention, Cluj International Ceramics Biennale 2017, Romania 2014 Regional Arts Tasmania quick response grant to attend Kohila Symposium in Estonia, and to present at the Second European Wood Fire conference in Denmark 2013 Nominee, International Ceramics Magazine Editors Association’s Janet Mansfield Award 2009 Janet Holmes a Court Artists Grant, a NAVA initiative 2007 In recognition of ‘continuing activity in the field of ceramic art’ presented at Clay Edge 2007, Gulgong NSW 2004 Regional Arts Tasmania travel grant to attend Clay Modern 2004 2002 Arts Tasmania travel grant for residency at Jeff Oestreich pottery, Minnesota, USA 1999 Merit award, Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery Queensland 1999 Tasmanian Ceramics Award 7NT Tas Art Exhibition, Burnie 1999 Clayworks Australia Award, Townsville Ceramics Competition 1998 Award for Excellence in Ceramics, Glamorgan Spring Bay Art Exhibition, Tasmania 1998 Award for Non Functional Design, Tasmanian Potters Society Exhibition, Hobart 1997 Craft Arts International and Tasmanian Craft Fair Award 1996 The Con Dios Ceramic Award, Burnie Tasmania 1995 Lactos Award for Excellence in Functional Design, Tasmania 1995 Award for Excellence in Non Functional Design, Burnie City Council, Tasmania 1994 Con Dios Open Award & Comalco Award for Excellence in Innovative Design, 7NT Tas Art Exhibition 1993 Comalco Award for Excellence in Functional Design, 7NT Tas Art Exhibition
