Kris Coad

Ceramics Studio

Kris Coad is a ceramic artist living and working in Naarm (Melbourne) Australia. She has been a practicing artist for over 30 years, dividing her time between her studio and her work as an educator. Kris alternates exhibition work with large and small-scale ceramic commissions, both within Australia and internationally. She also produces a translucent porcelain tableware range for selected retail outlets, and custom designs for haute cuisine restaurants.  

Kris has exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions including the Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, Korean Ceramic Biennale, Dianne Tanzer Gallery Melbourne, Manly Museum and Art Gallery Sydney, Woollahra Small Sculpture. Commissions include the Paris Peninsula, the Municipal Offices of the Greater City of Dandenong and the Beson office CBD Melbourne. Her work has been acquired for public and private collections, including Icheon World Ceramic Centre Korea, Mino Ceramic Museum Japan Parliament House Canberra, Shepparton Art Gallery, Manly Museum & Art Gallery. Kris’s work has featured in many magazines, journals and custom books including World Sculpture News, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Vogue Living and Ceramics Art and Perception International. 

The Gasworks Arts Park is a special place for me, it is where I create and make. I leave the busy city streets and enter a space surrounded by nature, a place that I am always grateful to work within. 

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