Rod Bamford - MMM

Rod Bamford is an award-winning designer and visual artist who established his own ceramics business, Cone Nine Studios, with partner Janine Brody in 1994.

The studio was created to develop distinctive design ideas and provide a working laboratory to see those ideas come to fruition. The studio focuses on the design of mass-produced commercial tableware and ceramic tiles.

Rod received an Australia Council Maker to Manufacturer to Market (MMM) grant in 2005. His MMM project saw the expansion of Cone Nine Studios to manufacture his GM limited edition works.

The GM range consists of high-quality vase and bowl forms featuring rich photographic imagery mapped to the surface of simple dynamic shapes that are contemporary in appearance.

The GM concept explores vases and bowls for use with genetically modified fruit and flora. For Rod, who has established a successful commercial arm to his studio practice, the MMM project enables him to further his research of mapping visually rich print surfaces to functional ceramic forms.