Collection: Richard Penn

Richard Penn is a South African artist living and working in Auckland, New Zealand and was awarded the Premier Award for the Portage Ceramics Prize 2022 at Te Uru Art Gallery in Titirangi. He has had numerous solo exhibitions at venues including Public Record in Auckland, Gallery AOP in Johannesburg, Nirox Gallery in Johannesburg, Blank Projects  in Cape Town, The Origins Centre Museum at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and Everard Read/Circa Gallery in Cape Town and Everard Read Gallery Johannesburg. 

He has exhibited both locally and internationally and was the South African representative at The Rybon International Artists’ Workshop in Tehran, Iran in 2012. In 2014 he took up the Ampersand Fellowship to New York, USA. He is represented in private, corporate and academic collections throughout South Africa and internationally and has shown consistently at both Johannesburg and Cape Town Art Fairs.  

In December 2020 he and his family relocated to New Zealand. In 2021 he was awarded a three month studio residency at Auckland Studio Potters as well as a month long residency at Driving Creek Potteries in the Coromandel in February 2022. He has taught sculpture at both the Otago Polytechnic and at Elam School of Fine arts at Auckland University and is the curator of exhibitions at Auckland Studio Potters.