Auckland Studio Potters - Staff
Hayley Bridgford
Centre Manager
Email: asp@ceramics.co.nz
Hayley has been a member of ASP since 1986 and is a highly experienced potter with strong management and communication skills. She has run her own independent freelance business the past two years - developing a high-end client base of 12 restaurants nationwide - and has experience in managing an artist run studio. Hayley is your go to for all enquiries and can point you in the right direction.
Rebecca Plowman
Kiln Technician
Email: aspcomms.kilntech@gmail.com
Bex attended a term of night classes at ASP in 1996 and shortly after found work within ceramic manufacturing in New Zealand. She continued with a career in ceramics working in different roles at several studios. Dipping in and out of ASP classes over the years has been fundamental in her professional development and extending her knowledge of pottery.
Currently she makes wheel thrown pottery from her studio at home and enjoys working with the ASP community.
“ I’m constantly amazed at the level of creative output at the centre, I really enjoy seeing people hard at work on their pieces and love to be able to offer help where I can.”
Toby Twiss
Diploma Coordinator
"It's great to be part of a Centre that is so vibrant and keen, with all the classes full. I am mostly a sculptor, sometimes a teacher and hopeful potter, and have been hanging around the place for a few years now."
Toby has been with ASP since 2016, when he was Director of the Centre. Now he is in charge of the Diploma of Ceramics programme, which is becoming more and more important to the life of the Centre, and is growing each year.
Kate Hobbs
Office Assistant
Email: asp@ceramics.co.nz
Kate has been a member since 2020, completing the Otago Polytechnic level 5 Ceramic Arts Diploma in 2021 via the distance course at ASP.
While quite new to the world of ceramics, she is completely in love with it and spends most of her time in her happy place at her home studio, making homeware with love.