Biography Antoinette Badenhorst for exhibition – January 2020
Antoinette was born in Johannesburg South Africa, and raised in Namibia, a
semi-desert part of Southern Africa.
Her pottery career started in 1981 when she took a basic pottery class. In
1986 her work began to appear in art galleries and in 1992 Antoinette’s
work was selected for a juried exhibition. She won the award for non
functional pottery in the Association of Potters, Northern Transvaal annual
competition in 1995. Since then to this day she had opportunities to show
her work in different galleries and museums, shows and festivals across
South Africa, the USA, Canada, several countries in Europe as well as in
Japan.
In 1999 she and her family moved to the United States of America where
she obtained permanent residency for her and family with her
“extraordinary ability in the field of ceramics”. Today she is living and
working in the USA, while teaching pottery online and from her own studio.
A potter for almost 40 years, she exhibits her work and teach ceramics in
many countries across 4 continents. She won several national and
international awards, while she keeps pushing the limits of porcelain. Her
work is in several private and museum collections.
Finding herself on the edge of new discoveries all the time she began to
build a strong profile educating people about porcelain in various countries
across the world in workshops, presentations, technical reviews and
research articles published widely in national and international books and
magazines.
Antoinette is involved on many fronts in the ceramic field, while she juries
and curate art shows from time to time. Her book “Working with Porcelain”,
was released in 2019.
She and her husband founded the TeachinArt Online School of Art in 2014.
The school is growing steadily