Geoff Crispin

	Tiwi Islands The Tiwi Islands are located 80km to the north of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Started work on a ceramcis program in 1976 and continues to this day with second generation of potters.
	Jamaica Located in the Carribean where I spent three years from 1985 working with the Government and the private sector on local raw materials for ceramics.
	Oman On the Persian gulf in the Middle East where in 1990 preliminary work was carried out on the development of a ceramic industry to produce containers for the export of frankinsense..
	Ethiopia In the horn of africa where I worked on a women's pottery project in 1994. I lived in Gondor assisting the pottery to become established.
	Papua New Guinea I worked in PNG for three years from 1998 helping to re-establish the Small scale Mining Branch of the Dept of Mining. setting up an education program for mining professionals as well as the widespread small scale mining industry.
	Indonesia Over a couple of years I was casually involved in the Mine closure plan for the kelian gold mine in Kalimantan. I worked with the small scale mining community and their relationship to the rehabilitation of the mine site.
	Ernabella 2005-6 I spent in central Australia working for Ernabella Arts helping to transfer ownership to local people of the ceramics workshop. this has extended into assisting to build relationships with other remote indigenous ceramic workshops
	West Timor 2008 for three months I worked with a small village called Wepriamatta assisting develop their ceramics business.