Jane McCulla graduated as a mature student, with a 1st Class BA Hons in Fine and Applied Art at the University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland in 2006 and immigrated to New Zealand with her family in 2009.

Jane creates textured, stretched, stoneware clay vessels and forms at her home-based studio in Diamond Harbour, Canterbury. She creates fluid textures on her stoneware pieces, suggesting geology, archaeology and mankind’s marks on the landscape, fluxed over time.

Jane also maintains a busy teaching schedule presenting classes and workshops throughout New Zealand  In 2017 she completed a seven-week residency at The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, the porcelain capital of the world in China. Jane has received several awards for her pieces, including a Portage Merit Award in 2013

Jane’s ceramics have been in various publications and exhibited in both solo and national shows in London, UK, Ireland and NZ. Pieces are held in both private and public collections worldwide.