22 stores · curated ORBIS register
Australian ceramics move between gallery editions and working studios, two worlds closer than they look. Fazeek designs sculptural glassware and ceramics from Melbourne studios. Third Drawer Down commissions artist-collaboration homewares with Kusama, Bourgeois and Chicago. Robert Gordon throws handcrafted dinnerware, pottery at the Australian studio. Studio seconds are the same clay with a small flaw and a smaller price; it is worth asking whether any are out the back.
Salamanca Place, Hobart
Established in 1980 on Salamanca Place, Handmark has spent over four decades exhibiting Tasmanian craft and fine art across ceramics, glass, jewellery, wood, textiles and sculpture. Its rotating monthly exhibitions give both emerging and established island makers a commercial gallery platform inside the historic sandstone warehouse district.
Best for Tasmanian studio glass, ceramics and wood craft
Melbourne region
Boom Gallery, established in 2011 and now at 41 Pakington Street, Geelong West, sells handmade ceramics - from breakfast bowls to stoneware cups and vases - alongside jewellery, painting, sculpture, photography and printmaking. It represents primarily Victorian artists, both emerging and established.
Best for Contemporary victorian craft and art
Fitzroy North (27-29 Best St) / Online
Melbourne homewares and fragrance label designing sculptural glassware and ceramics, with candles and fragrances hand-poured locally.
Best for Melbourne homewares and fragrance label designing sculptural glassware and ceramics
Melbourne / Australia
Opened in 2010 on the light-filled first floor of a Victorian-era building in Brunswick, Mr Kitly is an independent shop and gallery of functional, garden and art objects. It stocks ceramics, homewares, lighting and its own self-watering plant pots, sold in store and through its online shop.
Best for Homewares, design objects, ceramics
Kensington, Melbourne
Neo Ceramics is a ceramics studio at 47-49 Elizabeth Street, Kensington, offering short courses, term classes, workshops and studio access for potters. It also sells equipment and supplies and operates on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country.
Best for Ceramics classes and studio access
Melbourne
R L Foote Design Studio makes contemporary ceramic tableware and design objects, handmade at its studio and glaze lab at 1 Parslow Street, Clifton Hill. It also produces food moulds and chocolates, and runs ceramics classes from the same workshop.
Best for Handmade ceramic tableware
Melbourne
SaJo Ceramics is a pottery studio and supply shop at 11 Lillypilly Lane, Kilsyth South, in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, offering classes, studio access and firing services for stoneware, earthenware, porcelain and air-dry clay. It stocks glazes, tools and equipment including a slab roller, extruder and Venco pottery wheels.
Best for Pottery classes and clay supplies
Melbourne / Australia
Since 2003, this Melbourne homewares and gift studio has turned artist collaborations with names including Yayoi Kusama, Louise Bourgeois and Judy Chicago into tea towels, ceramics and stationery, selling through its own shop, UK and US e-commerce, and a wholesale and custom-studio arm.
Best for Artist-collaboration homewares with Kusama, Bourgeois and Chicago
Third Drawer Down has run under the line "making art accessible since 2003," the year the Melbourne studio started turning gallery-scale artist collaborations into everyday objects rather than limited-edition prints alone. The collaborator list has grown to include major contemporary names - Yayoi Kusama, Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago and Marina Abramović among them - alongside Australian artists such as Tony Albert, Kaylene Whiskey and Kait James, translating each artist's work onto tea towels, ceramics, stationery and other playful, functional pieces rather than treating the collaboration as a one-off capsule. That model has scaled from a single Melbourne shop into dedicated e-commerce operations in the UK and US, plus a wholesale arm and Studio TDD, which handles custom projects and licensed production for outside clients and institutions. The business sits at an unusual intersection - part gift shop, part licensed-art distributor, part contract studio - built on the premise that a Kusama or Bourgeois piece belongs on a tea towel in someone's kitchen as legitimately as on a gallery wall. Two decades in, that premise has held up well enough to keep drawing in new artist partners on both sides of the world, rather than trading on a handful of early names.
Sydney / Online
It is best known for More than 70 Australian artisan designers — handmade jewellery, homewares, art, fashion, ceramics, gifts; ethical sustainable locally made products; products change regularly; 4.8-star rated local favourite.
Best for More than 70 Australian artisan designers
Circular Quay, Sydney, Online
On Circular Quay, the Museum of Contemporary Art's store champions Australian artists and makers — jewellery, ceramics and editions with the harbour outside.
Best for Contemporary Australian art and craft
South Australia, Pukatja
Ernabella Arts, in the Pukatja (Ernabella) community on the APY Lands, was established in 1948 and is described as Australia's oldest continuously running Indigenous art centre. Artists began with hand-loomed weaving and knotted floor rugs, added batik silk painting in the 1970s and ceramics from 2003, with senior women depicting Tjukurpa, the sacred stories of Country, Culture and Law.
Best for Batik and ceramics from the apy lands
Cardwell (Cassowary Coast, south of Cairns)
Girringun represents artists from nine Traditional Owner groups and produces paintings, ceramics, weaving, sculpture, prints and the region's distinctive bagu figures. The Aboriginal-owned centre is a member of the Indigenous Art Centre Alliance and works under the Indigenous Art Code.
Best for Rainforest-country Aboriginal art and bagu sculpture
Central Australia, Hermannsburg
Hermannsburg Potters is a Western Arrarnta artists' collective in Hermannsburg, Central Australia, whose pottery tradition spans 30 years and draws on the landscape painting style of Albert Namatjira. Artists hand coil-pinch terracotta clay pots, decorate them with ceramic underglaze depicting local wildlife, memories of Country and community, then fire them to earthenware temperatures.
Best for Hand coil-pinch terracotta pottery
Tasmania / Australia
At 102B Goulburn Street in Hobart, this working ceramics studio lets customers watch pieces get slip-cast and hand-glazed on site, with colours like Tarn and Dolerite drawn straight from the Tasmanian landscape. The shop and studio share one space, so browsing the shelves means browsing the actual production line.
Best for Ceramics, Pottery, Studio Shop
Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
Jan Murphy Gallery, at 486 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, represents over 40 established and emerging artists working in painting, photography, ceramics and sculpture, including Adam Pyett, Robert Malherbe, Natasha Bieniek and Richard Lewer. The gallery runs an active exhibition schedule and its artists have been finalists in awards including the Portia Geach Memorial Award.
Best for Contemporary painting and sculpture exhibitions
Byron Bay / Australia
Marr-Kett on Fletcher Street in Byron Bay offers artisan homewares including handmade ceramics and glassware.
Best for Handmade ceramics, candles and textiles
Brisbane (studio)
Melanie Hardy throws stoneware soap dishes, stamped bowls, mugs and vases from Australian clay in her small Brisbane studio, working in muted natural glazes. The pieces sell through her online shop alongside plant-based bath and body goods under a slow-made philosophy.
Best for Handmade stoneware and natural gifts
Darwin Waterfront
An Indigenous Art Code signatory at the Darwin Waterfront that works directly with Aboriginal-owned art centres including Spinifex Arts Project and Ernabella Arts. The gallery has placed works in institutions such as the National Gallery of Australia and shows paintings and ceramics across a range of price points.
Best for Ethically sourced desert and remote-community art
Multiple
Australian ceramics studio — handcrafted dinnerware, pottery, and kitchenware in contemporary designs since 1945.
Best for Handcrafted Australian ceramics.
Robert Gordon Australia has manufactured handcrafted ceramics for over 75 years, specializing in dinnerware, bowls, kitchenware, and decorative pottery. The studio works with contemporary design principles to produce tableware and artistic pieces. The company operates across multiple locations in Australia for production, retail, and distribution. Their approach emphasizes artisanal craft methods in ceramic production, distinguishing the work from industrial manufacture.
Byron Bay, NSW
Ruby and Frank is a ceramics studio in Byron Bay producing hand-thrown and hand-built tableware, vessels and homewares. Pieces are made in-house and sold through the studio and online.
Best for Handmade Byron Bay ceramics and tableware
Clifton Beach
Potter Kylie hand-throws ceramics from a Clifton Beach studio, making mugs with palm-tree designs, vases, plates and lidded jars under a beauty-in-imperfection approach. The pieces are pitched as reusable alternatives to single-use ware.
Best for Handmade tropical-motif ceramics
Fremantle, Perth
The Artisan Store Fremantle is an artist-run gallery and retail space bringing together more than 170 Western Australian makers, selling handmade jewellery, art, textiles, ceramics, woodwork, glass, prints and gifts. It was founded on the principle of artists supporting artists, with every piece made in WA.
Best for Curated wa artisan gallery
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