Awards, Articles

Below you will find a list of awards Lee-Anne has achieved for her ceramics, and articles that have been written about her work.

17 Sept 2026 - Lee-Anne won the Tasmanian Ceramics Association Ratho Farm's Best Interpretation of Exhibition Theme for their annual award exhibition titled "Love is the answer, what is the question?"

"When you fall in love with someone, you see that infinite wellspring of mystery - it's granted to you as a gift." J. Peterson

Love is an elemental human need, whether we find it in another human, an animal, nature or in something we do.
Love makes life worth living.
It gives meaning, purpose and direction.

Made with Southern Ice Porcelain, burnished and decorated.
35x19x12cm

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3 Aug 2023 - Lee-Anne won the Tasmanian Ceramics Association John Watson's 'Humour in Clay' Award for their annual exhibition titled - Evolved. This piece is titled 'Gone Cocky'.

Accompanying poem:

Gone Cocky!
High in the hilltops,
Amongst the old Gum Trees,
The lonely white Cocky,
Squawks and preens.
By day he’s a bird,
Yet at night, he’s absurd,
As he sneaks into the backyards,
Past sleeping dog guards.
The cocky tip toes into your garden,
Looking for trinkets and tartan,
To store in his ‘pot’ belly,
That breaks down into confetti.
It’s true he thinks he’s a magpie,
Collecting fancy things.
But actually he’s a hoarding man,
Dressed up as a Cocky,
Who acts like a Maggie,
What’s so strange about that?

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26 Nov 2021 - Lee-Anne came 3rd place in the South East Arts 3D art section of their annual exhibition. This piece is titled: Lamp - the offspring of heroes.

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29 Aug 2021 - Lee-Anne won the Tasmanian Ceramics Association John Watson's 'Humour in Clay' Award for their annual exhibition titled - Prose. This piece is titled: The Mad Rooster.

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23 Oct 2020 - Lee-Anne won the Tasmanian Ceramics Association John Watson's 'Humour in Clay' Award for their annual exhibition titled - Contained. Piece is titled: I Found my New Home.

Accompanying poem:
On a windy day, in the month of May,
This little blue bird flew.
It dashed and darted through the air,
Over trees and bushes it knew.
It came to land, on a branch so grand,
So the blue bird started a song.
Its voice rang high, it reached the sky,
But in the ground something was wrong.
Muffled groans grew, under the winter ground’s dew,
This added to the fabric of the song.
Before too long, other birds joined along,
The blue bird wasn’t singing alone.
As the day grew long, the tune formed a new song, titled;
‘I found my new home!’

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28 Sept 2018 - Lee-Anne won her first ceramic award for the 'little monster cookie jar' - John Watson's humour in clay award - from the Tasmanian Ceramics Association annual exhibition.

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ARTICLES

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November 2021 - The Sorell Times.
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14 August 2021 - The Mercury Newspaper. Written by Simon Bevilacqua.