Teresa Peters is an artist currently working in clay, ceramics and moving image. ‘Excavating’ primordial totems and navigating puesdo – archaeology as we move through the Antropocene. Earth bodies, forming and transforming – molten entities in intimate combustion.

Echoes won the 2021 Portage Premier Ceramic Award at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery. It is the first Premier work in the awards 21-year history to be presented as a photograph. Time Crystal, clay and ceramic as digital video, was a finalist in Portage 22. Artefacts, raw clay archived as framed photography, was awarded the Merit award in the Ceramics NZ 60th National Jubilee Exhibition 2021.

DISASTROUSFORMS.COM, 2020 explores collections to collective consciousness, from volcanoes, corals, and fossils to the quartz in your mobile phone. As Walter Benjamin observed ~ collections are never finished. It is inspired by and now archived with Auckland Museum Collections Online as a Topic, made with the support of Creative New Zealand, and launched on the Auckland Live Digital Stage, as an audio-visual event in 2021.

Recent ceramic projects continue navigating quartz as a touchstone into technology and AV events. Orb: Placing Into Vibration, July 2022, a collab with musician Torben Tilly and quartz sound healer Cheryl Farthing at the Audio Foundation, included a Quartz Sound Journey event—a transformative crystalline experience.

Her work explores ceramics as a crystalline matrix from deep time to deep house ~ transforming clay into fluid digital realms and quartz vibration. Navigating collections to collective consciousness ~ recent projects echo ‘the club’ or ‘healing circle’ as collective spaces of transformative experience. Touch as a geomorphic force. We resonate with the frequencies of quartz crystals as every cell in the human body has a geometric crystalline structure. Ammonites to Ammolite ~ breaking new ground.

From things flow, showed at RM, Gallery in July 2021 with Shelley Simpson, Kate van der Drift and Kathryn Tulloch, which included Mollusk Reference with Maree Horner. The companion publication From things flow, with essay by Charlotte Huddleston and texts by the artists was launched at RM, in July 2022.

Maree Horner and Teresa Peters showed EARTHED in 2023 at NorthArt & Ground Zero at CAS in 2022. Teresa has recently shown in the Auckland Art Fair and TENT 2021/ 2022 with Mothermother and RM, Gallery.

In 2024 her work BLACK MOON vibed to live From Scratch performance 625 MOONS ~ FROM SCRATCH ~ New Zealand’s iconic and ground breaking music and performance group’s 50 year  celebrations produced by the Audio Foundation & was a featured work in live accompaniment as part of their 2025 National tour Songs for Unsung Heroes & 3 short films

Teresa Peters is a film maker and production designer, most known for her collaboration with Florian Habicht.Her film work has screened widely in international film festivals, including Cannes official selection.

On returning from Berlin and New York in 2015 she completed her PGDipFA at Elam and was the Studio One Toi Tu Creative Ceramics Resident in 2019. Previous exhibitions include: Duty of Care, Institute of Modern Art Queensland, 2024,Woodenhead, Unnerved: The New Zealand Project, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, 2010, Who Is Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf, at Te Tuhi, 2007, the Hostess Project at P.P.O.W Gallery, NYC, 2010. Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf ~ Te Tuhi, 2007.