	Peter LANGE (New Zealand) Dates: b.1944 New Zealander Peter Lange spent some of his youth travelling in England where his jobs included cleaning silver at Buckingham Palace and driving a London cab. He became a full time potter in 1972 producing reduced stoneware domestic pots in a diesel kiln. He currently teaches at the Auckland Studio Potters Centre. In 1981 he was influenced by Richard Shaw (USA super-realist) who visited New Zealand, and started to explore 'pop' ceramics visiting the USA in 1984. At the end of the 1990s he became interested in the elemental side of clay that he had previously avoided, e.g. hand building, wood firing, using salt and ash glazes. However, his work still contains elements of humour and play. In 2002 he built a 2 tonne, 6 metre long Brick Boat that floated in the harbour at Auckland and a 600kg brick sculpture of a woven basket in 2003. His late night pottery firing in an ice-kiln was a highly entertaining spectacle at the 2005 International Ceramics festival although the piece in the collection was made in another of the experimental kilns he made at that event. In 2006 he was awarded the Creative New Zealand Craft/Object Art Fellowship.

Peter LANGE (New Zealand)

Dates: b.1944

New Zealander Peter Lange spent some of his youth travelling in England where his jobs included cleaning silver at Buckingham Palace and driving a London cab. He became a full time potter in 1972 producing reduced stoneware domestic pots in a diesel kiln. He currently teaches at the Auckland Studio Potters Centre. In 1981 he was influenced by Richard Shaw (USA super-realist) who visited New Zealand, and started to explore 'pop' ceramics visiting the USA in 1984. At the end of the 1990s he became interested in the elemental side of clay that he had previously avoided, e.g. hand building, wood firing, using salt and ash glazes. However, his work still contains elements of humour and play. In 2002 he built a 2 tonne, 6 metre long Brick Boat that floated in the harbour at Auckland and a 600kg brick sculpture of a woven basket in 2003. His late night pottery firing in an ice-kiln was a highly entertaining spectacle at the 2005 International Ceramics festival although the piece in the collection was made in another of the experimental kilns he made at that event. In 2006 he was awarded the Creative New Zealand Craft/Object Art Fellowship.