Raewyn Atkinson

{{short description|New Zealand ceramicist}}

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Raewyn Atkinson (born 1955) is a New Zealand ceramicist.{{Cite book |last=Schamroth |first=Helen |url=http://nlnzcat.natlib.govt.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=385775 |title=100 New Zealand Craft Artists |date=1998 |publisher=Random House |isbn=1869620364 |location=Auckland |page=4}}{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} She completed a Diploma in Early Childhood Education at the Palmerston North Teachers College in 1975 and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History at Victoria University of Wellington in 1998.

Atkinson travelled to Antarctica in 2000 as an Antarctic Arts Fellow under the Artists in Antarctica Programme.{{Cite web |title=Alumni |url=http://antarcticanz.govt.nz/scholarships-fellowships/alumni |access-date=2 December 2014 |website=Antarctica New Zealand}} She returned to Antarctica independently in 2003.{{Cite journal |last=Irish |first=Gina |date=Summer 2005–2006 |title=Southbound: Artists to Antarctica |url=http://www.art-newzealand.com/Issue117/southbound.htm |journal=Art New Zealand |volume=117 |pages=42–46 |access-date=2 December 2014}} She was awarded the premier prize in the Portage Ceramic Awards in 2004, for works inspired by her time in the Antarctic.{{Cite web |date=15 October 2004 |title=Antarctica inspires winning artist |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3600772 |access-date=2 December 2014 |website=The New Zealand Herald |publisher=APN New Zealand Limited |agency=NZPA}} She won the Portage premier award again in 2015, and both Portage winning works were exhibited at Te Uru in the survey exhibition Portage 20/20.{{Cite web |title=Portage 20/20 |url=https://www.teuru.org.nz/index.cfm/whats-on/calendar/portage-20-20/ |access-date=6 August 2021 |website=Te Uru}} She was then invited to take the role of judge for the 2021 Portage Ceramic Awards.{{Cite web |title=Aotearoa's Top Potter Picked In The 2021 Portage Ceramic Awards |url=https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU2112/S00028/aotearoas-top-potter-picked-in-the-2021-portage-ceramic-awards.htm |access-date=4 December 2021 |website=Scoop News}}

Atkinson's work is held in several collections including the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, The Dowse Art Museum, the Auckland War Memorial Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art in Japan.{{Cite web |title=Raewyn Atkinson |url=http://www.bowengalleries.co.nz/artists/bios/atkinson.php |access-date=2 December 2014 |website=Bowen Galleries}}