Often described as "a potter's potter", Richard Parker is an award-winning artist with an impressive range of work in public and private collections worldwide.

He has exhibited widely over many years both in New Zealand and in Japan, Europe and the United States.

At an early stage in his career Parker abandoned the known in terms of how to make a pot and what it should look like and developed his own unique ceramics vocabulary. This singular vision has sustained his career for over 40 years and produced works that are instantly recognisable. Parker is noted for a variety of distinctive decorative forms frequently embellished with dashes, dots and dribbles in luscious glazes of red and green, black and cream, and his signature green and gold.

His work is held in a wide range of New Zealand art institutions including the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the Dowse Art Museum, Otago Museum, The Suter Art Gallery and the Sarjeant Gallery. It can also be found at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney and the World Ceramics Exposition Foundation in South Korea

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