Our work
Made for Spaces is an industrial ceramics studio set up in 2023 by industrial designer & ceramicist, Simone Reynolds to explore ways of making architectural ceramics using local materials and industrial methods.
To share knowledge learned along the way (and to help us grow) we run Earth*Oxide—a ceramics school where students can learn the basics of working with clay by crafting spatial objects. As Made for Spaces grows, so will our range of classes and workshops as we aim to keep the skills of industrial pottery alive for future generations.
Founder, Simone Reynolds works professionally as a contract ceramicist and mould-maker for a variety of clients in Aotearoa and Australia. Her work to date has been under the mentorship of master industrial potters and mould-makers: Rob Uivel of Lyttelton Pottery, NZ; and George Vozar of George Vozar Pottery, Tasmania.
She began slipcasting and mould-making through her Bachelor of Design (Industrial) at Massey University in 2011, has been working professionally in ceramics since 2019, started wheel throwing at Ata Ceramics in Lyttelton in 2019, and more recently, has studied aspects of glaze chemistry through the Ceramics Material Workshop.
