Pie Bolton B.Sc.(Hons) Geology, Dip. Ceramics, MFA
Pie Bolton https://www.piebolton.com https://www.thekilnroom.com
Education
2017 MFA with Distinction, RMIT University, Melbourne, Vice-Chancellor’s Academic List
2013 Diploma of Ceramics, Holmesglen Institute of TAFE
1983 Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Geology, University of Melbourne
Awards and Grants
2023 WINNER, Klytie Pate National Ceramic Prize with you and I are earth
2022/23 NEW WORK COMMISSION The Edge, City of Melton
2019 GRANT Creative Victoria, Under Pellucidar, Nillumbik Digital Agora, Nillumbik Shire,
2017 Split, Victorian Ceramic Art Award, finalist, Manningham Art Gallery, Melbourne
2016 Travel Research Grant, RMIT University, AZLEC-ANZ Conf., University of Sydney
Solo Exhibitions
2022 In My Neck of the Woods, Short Film Submission to the International Ceramic Congress, hosted by The Ceramic School, Austria, international audience, https://vimeo.com/744856049
2019 Under Pellucidar, Digital Agora, Nillumbik Shire, Creative Victoria
situation gravitas, Vitrine, CRAFT, Melbourne
2017 The Trace, First Site Gallery, Melbourne https://vimeo.com/238147628
Geo Logic, Span and Split, RMIT University, Melbourne https://vimeo.com/231965698
2016 Vital Materiality, First Site Gallery, Melbourne
2015 All we need, Tacit Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne
Group Exhibitions
2024 HELD, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney
2023 WINNER, Klytie Pate Ceramic Award, Arts Council of Mansfield, Victoria
2023 The Edge – CS Gallery, City of Melton, Melbourne
2023 Going Deeper – Loft 275, Ivanhoe Cultural Hub, City of Banyule
2023 One Night Stand – Mesopotamia Art Space, Melbourne
2022 Slow Clay X Clay Matters, Slow Clay Centre, Melbourne
2020 Bed as Desk, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2019 Malachite, Bonanza, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne
Geo, Art of the Collection, ANU/Geoscience Australia, Canberra
Enucleo with Heterotopia, Rosny Barn, Australian Ceramics Triennale, Hobart
Things of Clay, Stone and Wood, Whitehorse Artspace, Melbourne
Abyss, The Wandering Room, Melbourne
2018 Pellucidar, The Dirty Dozen, Melbourne Creative, Melbourne
2017 Split, Victorian Ceramic Art Award, finalist, Manningham Art Gallery, Melbourne
National Gallery Victoria Intl, guest artist/designer GT2P Melbourne Design Week
Anthropocene, First Site Gallery, Virgin Fashion Week Event, Melbourne
2016 Belong In, Alternating Current Gallery, Melbourne
One Night Stand, Easey Street Studios, Melbourne
Clayground, Brightspace, Melbourne
2015 Victorians Stepping Up, Belconnen Arts Centre, Canberra
Belonging, ANU School of Art, Canberra
2014 Evolution, Tacit Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne
2013 Decal Exhibition, Whitehorse Art Gallery, Zoetrope - acquired by City of Whitehorse
Collected
City of Whitehorse Public Collection, Australian and overseas private collections.
Residencies
2024 Police Point AiR, April, Police Point Shire Park, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2022 Police Point AiR, June, Police Point Shire Park, MornPen Regional Shire Council
2019 Artist Critique Week, Bundanon, Boyd Education Centre, Shoalhaven River, NSW
2015 The Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen, China
2014 Arterie, A Celebration of Tea, Chris O’Brien Lifehouse, RPA, Sydney
The Kiln Room
2020 Clay Matters - Founding Member - https://claymatters.com.au/
2019 The Kiln Room founded. The Kiln Room is a continually evolving, fully equipped ceramic studio, growing in facilities and services at the request of the ceramic community with intent to build connections between artists. Aims are to promote the sharing of knowledge and to embody the generosity of spirit of early ceramicists and potters. The Kiln Room offers a specialist ceramic firing service, education program, technical expertise, project consultancy, artist studios and International Residency Program.
2019 Alberto Scodro, an Italian artist, assisting Caves Gallery with expertise and facilities, The Kiln Room, Melbourne
2022 Jenny Norberg, Sweden – awarded a Konstnärsnämnden scholarship to be Artist in Residence at The Kiln Room. The scholarship provides the opportunity to develop skills and enhance knowledge by working with a more experienced artist for a six-to-ten-month period internationally.
Publications
2021/22 Presenter ‘Talking Kilns and Firing with Pie Bolton’ Masterclass Collaboration with TACA (The Australian Ceramics Association) to produce a published online firing course, https://australianceramics.com/masterclasses
2019 Malachite Transformation, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Vol 58 No 3.
2019 Deep Time and Shallow Time Meet in Jingdezhen, Garland Magazine, June 2019 https://garlandmag.com/article/pie-bolton/
2018 Digging Clay, The Journal of Australian Ceramics Vol 57 No 2.
Presentations
2024 Artist Talk, Moorleigh Ceramic, Moongala Women’s Centre, Bentleigh
2022 Moderation of Q&A’s with artists International Ceramic Congress, The Ceramic School, Austria
2020-23 Clay Doctor - International Ceramic Congress, hosted by The Ceramic School, Austria
2020 An Afternoon with Owen Rye and Pie Bolton, hosted by The Kiln Room, Melbourne
20th Anniversary Community Pot Project, Warrandyte Expo. Melbourne
Setting up a Ceramic Studio, Warrandyte Expo. Melbourne
2019 Master of Ceremonies, Australian Ceramics Triennale, Hobart, Tasmania
Geo Logic Artist Talk, Warrandyte Expo. Melbourne
2018 Museum of Now, Melbourne Design Week, Chapter House
2017 Clay Hack: Dig It, Speaker Northcote Pottery
2016 Global Ecologies - Local Impacts, AZLEC-ANZ Conference, University of Sydney, Sydney
Employment – self employed artist
2019- Founder and Director, The Kiln Room, Melbourne
2014-19 Technical Officer – Ceramic Workshop, RMIT University, Melbourne
2009-14 Ceramic Technician, Holmesglen TAFE, Melbourne