CAST Gallery

Ben Richardson currently pursues a professional practice in ceramics along with teaching commitments in the Visual Art and Contemporary Craft course at TAFE in Hobart. His professional practice focuses on woodfiring and the use of indigenous raw materials in a place-based approach to craft making. He was born in Hobart in 1951 and has a diverse professional and teaching background having completed a Bachelor of Economics at the University of Tasmania in 1972, and a Master of Art, Design and Environment at the Tasmanian School of Art in 2004. He was a part-time lecturer in ceramics at the Tasmanian School of Art in Hobart from 1985 to 1995.