| Peter Alger | |
| Birth Name: | Peter Alger |
| Birth Date: | 1952 |
| Birth Place: | New Brunswick, Canada |
| Known For: | Potter |
Peter Alger (born 1952) is a New Zealand potter.
He was born in New Brunswick, Canada, in 1952 and emigrated to New Zealand with his family in 1959.[1]
In 1968, he became apprenticed to potter Warren Tippet in the Coromandel.[1] He established his own pottery studio in Northland in 1970.[1]
His identifying potter's mark, as registered with the New Zealand Society of Potters, was from 1969 to 1975 the shape of a clover, and from 1975 onwards a stylized fish image.[2]
In 1992, he won the Norsewear Art Award with his stoneware work Elemental Bowl and was listed as a Finalist in the New Zealand Society of Potters Easter Show Award Exhibition.[3] [4] In 1992, he was also awarded a Certificate of Merit at the Cleveland Ceramics Awards.[5] In 1993, the Northland Craft Trust and the QEII Arts Council granted him a one-year artist residency at The Quarry in Whangarei.[6] In 1994, he won the Glenfalloch Award at the Cleveland Ceramics Awards.[7]
Alger's work is held in the collections of the Auckland War Memorial Museum and the Suter Gallery in Nelson.[8]