Biography:

Bridgit Day is a ceramic artist whose hand-built sculptural forms draw on a lifelong attention to nature. After more than two decades as a landscape architect, designing places that connect people with the natural world, she returned to clay and completed a Diploma in Ceramic Arts at Otago Polytechnic in 2018. She also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Elam, University of Auckland, and a Postgraduate Bachelor of Landscape Architecture with First Class Honours from Lincoln University.

Bridgit has been a finalist in the Portage Ceramic Awards, the Rick Rudd Foundation Emerging Practitioner in Clay Award, the UKU Clay Hawke’s Bay Ceramics Award, the Ceramics New Zealand National Exhibition and, in 2022 and 2025, the Waiclay National Ceramic Award. In 2024 she received a Merit Award at the Molly Morpeth Canaday Award, Whakatāne.

Accolades:

2026 Finalist, Ceramics New Zealand 61st National Exhibition, The Arts House Trust, Auckland

2025 Finalist, Waiclay National Ceramics Award 2025, Te Whare Taonga o Waikato Museum & Gallery, Hamilton