Janet Green

Janet Green began concentrating on making her own hand built ceramics in 2000, after 20 years as a conservator of ceramics at the British Museum, Auckland War Memorial Museum, Te Papa Tongarewa and the Dowse Art Museum.  She also worked for Edinburgh University and the British Institute at archaeological sites in South Eastern Turkey and Cyprus.  Janet has exhibited every year since 2001.

Her most recent exhibition at AVID "Imaginary Friends" initially had great success at Objectspace in Auckland.  The show received excellent reviews in the NZ Herald, The NZ Listener, The Wairarapa Times Age, and the Wairarapa  News. 

After spending two years in Indonesia as Product Manager on the NZ government's Lombok Craft Project, she visited the temple complex of Borobudur in Central Java which had a lasting impact on her and was the  main inspiration for Imaginary Friends.

Janet says of her work:

"With connections to ancestors and guardians, friends and times that have passed, these objects are meditations on mortality, recognitions that there is more to life than that which can be immediately perceived."

Janet also features in the Autumn 2007 Art News article "Leaving the Lagoon" by Virginia Were, as being one of those artists who are "happily travelling back and forth between the lagoon (of the craft world) and the open sea (of the art world)".

Her work "Guardian of the Beehive" was accepted into the 2007 Norsewear Art Awards.

Janet won two awards in 2006 and 2007, and her work features in both public and private collections.