Studio Built 1921 is the home studio of Ceramic Artist Simone Linder-Patton

Residing in the cooler climate of the Adelaide Hills regions of South Australia. Originally from England Simone emigrated to Australia with her family in 2005.

Simone graduated with a bachelor’s degree in visual arts, majoring in ceramics in 2016 and in 2017 a visual arts honours’ degree from Flinders University and TAFESA.

In 2016 Simone had the opportunity to travel to the pottery workshop Jingdezhen, China, for a six-week artists residency assisted by the Helpmann Academy. There she attended many workshops learning new skills and techniques including carving on Porcelain. Simone has since taught workshops in the Chinese carving technique in Australia and New Zealand.

2022 Runner Up Prize winner in the traditional category of the Watershed Creative Art Prize, Salisbury, 2021 First Prize winner in the Adelaide Potters’ SALA Clayworks Award, and a prize winner in the ceramics division of Campbelltown art show. Finalist in the 2021 Adelaide Hills Landscape Art Prize, the Heysen Landscape Prize 2020, winner of the 2019 St Ignatius Art Show Sponsors prize. Simone has exhibited her work in group exhibitions in Hobart, and Adelaide. Participating in annual Fringe and SALA Festivals.

Simone has also exhibited at the Hill Smith Gallery, the Peter Walker Gallery and the Helpmann Graduate Exhibition 2018 where she was awarded the inaugural ‘JamFactory Award’ and mentorship. Simone has also completed a mentorship with Stephanie James Manttan wheel throwing in Porcelain.

In 2018 Simone became a studio tenant at the JamFactory Seppeltsfield, the Barossa where she made work and taught workshops and regular pottery lessons for four years. Currently based in her recently renovated studio Studio Built 1921 in Birdwood, South Australia, Simone creates unique functional and sculptural ceramic forms.