Pauline McCoy Ceramics

Jugs

Pairs and groups

Applied forms

Green bowl with a rim cut into pointed teeth

Bowls

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Work

Jugs

Thrown jugs for the table. Full round bodies, pulled handles and pinched spouts, finished in ash, celadon and iron glazes.

Glossy jug with white, rust and turquoise glaze bands — **Jug**White, rust and turquoise glaze

Round turquoise jug blushing to straw at the rim — **Jug**Turquoise glaze

Work

Pairs and groups

Jugs made to sit together, in related forms and glazes.

Three jugs in pale green, ash and rust glazes — **Three jugs**Celadon and ash glazes

Work

Applied forms

Cups and vessels with domes pressed out from inside and added from outside, so the surface reads as both hollow and raised.

Cobalt cup seen from above showing domes inside the white interior — **Cup with applied forms**Cobalt glaze, from above

Tall slate blue vessel covered in raised and hollow domes — **Vessel with applied forms**Slate glaze

Work

Bowls

Wide shallow bowls. The fluted rim is cut back to raw clay so each tooth carries a thin line of glaze.

Green bowl from above with a rim cut into pointed raw clay teeth — **Bowl with fluted rim**Green glaze over raw clay

Exhibitions

2026

Two-person exhibition, The Upstairs Gallery, Titirangi

About

Pauline McCoy was born in Dunedin into a family of architects. Her father was Ted McCoy, one of the city's best known modernist architects, and that way of seeing shows in her work.

Her pots are designed with a modernist eye for proportion and line, then given surfaces that answer to natural forms. Glazes and textures take their cues from the bush, the coast and the found things of Aotearoa.

She makes functional ware for the table alongside ceramic art, working from studios in Titirangi in West Auckland and Mangawhai on the east coast of Northland.

Born: Dunedin
Studios: Titirangi and Mangawhai

Contact

For available work, prices and commissions, message Pauline on Instagram.

@paulinemccoy.ceramics