Graeme Storm (New Zealand), vases, pots and jars

Graeme Storm was born in Auckland in 1936. He studied in Auckland and Dunedin Teachers' Colleges and began making pottery and building kilns at his parents' Orakei home in 1956. Worked as an Arts and Crafts adviser for the Education Department and in 1959 travelled to the UK and Europe, attending the Central School of Arts & Crafts in London. While in London he worked with Kenneth Clarke and Gwyn Hanssen. He also met Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, Bernard Leach and Harry and May Davis.

During a visit to his father’s homeland, Finland, he went to the Arabia factory in Helsinki where he experienced the blue, green and purple high fired glazes achieved from copper carbonate.

He returned to Aotearoa New Zealand in 1961 and resumed work as an arts & crafts advisor, all the while making pots and becoming a full-time potter in 1964.

In 1965 he more... received a grant from the New Zealand Arts Council and in 1967 conducted a lecture tour across Canada for the Canadian Guild of Potters. He established a pottery department at Auckland Teachers' College in 1971 and was commissioned in that year to make a ceramic mural for the satellite Earth Station at Warkworth. His work was included in the International Exhibition of Ceramic Arts at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London in 1972. In 1994 Graeme Storm was awarded a Japan Foundation Travel Award.

He has exhibited widely in group shows in Japan, Australia, China, England, Canada and is represented in the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, Italy; in museums and galleries throughout New Zealand; and in the collections of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II, Emperor Akihito of Japan and the late Shah of Iran.

He retired 2016. less...