Staff in the Ceramics Workshop are professional exhibiting artists and highly experienced teachers with national and international reputations. Their expertise is complemented by a very active program of visiting ceramic artists who interact with students through workshops, lectures and demonstrations.

Janet DeBoos
After completing a science degree, Janet DeBoos studied ceramics at East Sydney (National Art School) in 1970/71. She has taught at and been in charge of ceramics at various colleges in Sydney (St George and Randwick TAFEs) and was Head Teacher at East Sydney when she retired from fulltime teaching in 1980 to run a production pottery for almost 20 years.

She has written (or co-authored) three books on glazes (Glazes for Australian Potters, More Glazes for Australian Potters and Handbook for Australian Potters), been invited speaker at national and international conferences, and conducted workshops or demonstrations in most states of Australia, the USA and China.

She is an editorial consultant on Ceramics Technical and Ceramics-Art & Perception, and a regular contributor to these and other journals. She received Australian Research Council Grants for 1996, 1997 and 1998 to examine the stability of barium glazes.

She exhibits regularly both in Australia and overseas, and is represented in public and private collections.The focus of her work is the domestic arena and functional pottery- the processes that form it from clay, and those rituals that re-form it through use.

Greg Daly
Greg Daly is internationally known and respected as a ceramic artist specialising in rich glaze effects, and also as the author of Glazes and Glazing Techniques (1995 Simon & Schuster). His work is represented in 19 international book publications, in 60 national and international art galleries and museums (including the National Gallery of Australia and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London), and he has won 36 national and international awards. He has held over 60 solo exhibitions and was President of Craft Australia from 1992-1995. In 1999 he received an ARC grant to research the effect of firing cycles in the development of copper red glazes.

Anita McIntyre
Anita studied ceramics at Canberra Technical College School of Art, and has been teaching there (now ANU School of Art) since 1973. She exhibits regularly both locally and interstate, is represented in public and private collections, and in 1997 received the Canberra Critics Circle Award for Visual Arts.

"My current work is influenced by regular and extensive travel to remote parts of Australia. The work has come to reflect the harsh desert interior and "top end" landscapes. Reflections and meditations provide an abstract imagery that evokes landscape unseen but known, and recalls notions of observation, memory and presence.

Dr Gail Nichols
Gail Nichols is an Australian ceramic artist, recognized internationally for her innovative approach to soda glazing. Through extensive research, leading to completion of a PhD at Monash University in 2002, Gail developed her unique vapour glaze aesthetic and technical approach to materials and firing. Gail makes vessels with soft organic forms and lush dimpled glazes that appear to ooze out of the clay itself. Her studio is located on a rural property near Braidwood, New South Wales. Her book, Soda Clay and Fire has recently been published by the American Ceramic Society.

Joanne Searle
Joanne Searle is a Canberra based ceramicist who completed a First Class Honours degree at the School of Art in 1999. She has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally including the 53rd International Ceramics Competition in Faenza, Italy in 2003 and the First Taiwan Ceramics Biennale in 2004. In 2003 Joanne was awarded the major prize at the Canberra Potters Society and Port Hacking Potters Award. In 2004 Joanne was invited artist at the Asia Pacific Students Workshop ' Ceramics for Use, a New Perspective' at the University of Hawaii.

Dr Patsy Hely
Patsy Hely is a practicing artist whose work has been exhibited widely in both public and private galleries. Her initial training was at East Sydney Technical College (National Art School); she holds a Master of Arts from Southern Cross University and her PhD from the ANU School of Art, 'Ceramic Objects and the Articulation of Place' was completed in 2007. She has taught at the University of Newcastle, the College of Fine Arts (UNSW), Sydney University (Tin Sheds), Southern Cross University, and has been on staff at the School of Art since 2003. Her research interests are in ceramics and place, colonial ceramics, the roles that ceramics plays in representing the remnants of nature including the use of bird life as ornament. Her work is held in public collections overseas and in many Australian State and Regional Galleries including the National Gallery of Australia and the Powerhouse Museum.