The Creative Cup Wrap Up
A huge thank you to all artists and bidders for helping make this year’s fundraiser a success. 108 auctions, 91 artists, $8700 in sales.
The winner of the People’s Choice Award was Nyree Sherlock for ‘Grumpy Tohorā Discovers An Oddly Misplaced Nawhal’ – winning the Turning Point Coffee package.
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The Winner of the Top Auction went to Kevin Martin‘s ‘Nostalgia’
winning $50 to spend at the Quarry Ceramic Shop.
The Creative Cup Auctions are now live on TradeMe. Auctions will close between 2-7.30pm Friday 2 August.
Welcome to the Quarry Arts Centre Fundraiser for 2024!
Usually THE GREAT PLATE – the fundraiser for 2024 is instead focused around cups and mugs, saucers, teapots – as long as there is a cup somewhere as inspiration anything goes.
As with the Great Plate, The Creative Cup this is an opportunity for the Quarry community to gift back to the Centre, submitting work to help fundraise for key infrastructure. Artists create something around the cup theme which are then auctioned via trademe.
Our Creative Cup exhibition is now open! This exhibition will be on for 3 weeks, with the final week being auction week starting from 26th July. There are over 100 auctions to bid on. Check back here on Friday 26 July to find the links to the auctions.
At The Great Plate events we have seen phenomenal sculptural riffs on a plate and we know that similar inspiration will come with working with a CUP as well. Around half the cups are made by the artists, and half have used premade cups made by the amazing Marilyn Wheeler, Julie Cromwell and Anabelle McCusker who made cups for artists to beautify.
DATES
Exhibition: Opens Friday 12 July, 5pm with drinks and nibbles.
Auction: Saturday 27 July – Friday 2 August
Closing Auction Party: Friday 2 August (BYO and nibbles very welcome)
The Great Plate 2023 – Quarry Arts Annual Fundraiser
The Great Plate is the Quarry Art Centre’s annual fundraiser, helping raise money for the operations and special projects of New Zealand longest running community arts centre.
Each year artists from around Northland donate their time and artistic efforts to make and/or decorates a ‘plate’ (there are many interpretations about what a plate is). The plates are then auctioned on TradeMe, with the proceeds going to the Quarry Arts Centre for the continued maintenance and upgrades of the community kilns, buildings, and other special projects. We appreciate the artist’ contributions to keeping the Quarry Arts Centre alive and flourishing, and look forward to seeing this year’s creations!
Just some of our 2023 Great Plate artists!
The Great Plate 2022
Thank you to the throwers, artists, bidders and buyers for another successful fundraiser for the Quarry Arts Centre. In 2022 we raised $12500! This money will be put towards building a small wood-fire kiln so that potters can play with wood-firing on a smaller scale.
Our Top Selling Plate was won by Dell Pryor, and the People’s Choice Award was a three-way tie between Carol Robinson, Ida Edwards and Sheree Wagner. Each award receives $100 store credit to the Quarry Shop (with this year’s People’s Choice being split between the three wi
See the 3D plates the videos below
Clockwise from top-left: Sarah Bing,
Lynda Bell, Sheree Wagner, Cecilia de Donatis
The annual fundraiser for the Quarry Arts Centre raises money for the continued maintenance and upgrades of the community kilns and buildings. This enabled a brand new kiln to be purchased last year, and phase out an older kiln that no longer had the heat to complete glaze firings.
THE AUCTION and GALLERY OPENING NIGHT
Thursday 4th August, 5-7pm – Yvonne Rust Gallery.
AUCTION CLOSING PARTY
Sunday 14th August, 2-4pm. Bring a plate and come on down for our closing party, with Captain Jayman as the auctioneer commentator!
