Baye Riddell

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Baye Pewhairangi Riddell (born 1950) is a New Zealand ceramicist, composer and musician of Ngāti Porou and Te Whānau-a-Ruataupare descent.

Riddell was born in

Shoji Hamada.[2]: 80  Riddell, who had become distant from his Māori heritage, started putting Māori motifs on his pots, and in 1974 he became a full-time potter, the first Māori artist to commit to this profession.[2]
: 80–81 

Riddell built his first kiln in Christchurch at this time, but soon moved back to the North Island, living in Central Hawkes Bay and Anaura Bay before settling in Tokomaru Bay in 1979.

Theo Schoon.[2]: 37  Through his aunt, Ngoi Pēwhairangi, who was working to revive traditional Māori art and culture, Riddell also reconnected with his own heritage.[2]
: 81 

Through the resurgent contemporary Māori art movement at this time Riddell connected with other Māori clay artists, including Colleen Waata Urlich and Manos Nathan and spent time working alongside them at workshops and hui (meetings).[2]: 81  In 1986, with Manos Nathan, Riddell was a co-founder of Ngā Kaihanga Uku, the national Māori clayworkers’ organisation in Aotearoa New Zealand.[3]

In 1989 he and Nathan were awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to establish an exchange with Native American artists.[4] In 2011 he was awarded the Creative New Zealand Craft/Object Fellowship.[4]

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  3. ^ "Riddell digs own clay for ceramics". Stuff.co.nz. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  4. ^ a b "Baye Riddell awarded Creative New Zealand Craft/Object Fellowship". Creative New Zealand. Creative New Zealand. 3 June 2011. Retrieved 3 December 2014.


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