History of The Society:
The first meetings of a few people working in this art form began some 35 years ago at a modest venue in Southport. The very first exhibitions were conducted at the now defunct ‘Eight Bells Gallery’ in Surfers Paradise.
In the Eighties the Society acquired the premises at Benowa at the corner of Ashmore Road and Carrara Street. Thanks to the support of the Gold Coast Council a heritage-listed building, the Old Benowa State Schoolhouse, was first used as workrooms and later transformed into the Society’s Gallery for their exhibitions. At the site of the former schoolmaster’s house a new building was erected serving as workrooms for the Society’s members and students and taking into consideration our special needs like the placing of machines, kilns, workbenches etc. It houses both the Sculptors’ Society and the Potters’ Association side by side.
