Ray Pearce (1949- ) was born in Bendigo, Victoria. In 1971, he established the Blind Cow Pottery at White Hills, a suburb of Bendigo. In 1973, he obtained a Diploma of Art and Design from the Bendigo Institute of Technology and later taught there for several years. Since then, he has continued to make occasional forays into teaching at technical and higher education level as well as conducting private classes. In 1990, he and his partner, artist Deirdre Outhred, moved with their two children to a property between Marong and Maiden Gully on the outskirts of Bendigo. There, over a period of 16 years, Pearce built a two-storey house with a tower, wings and balconies, using over 10,000 mud bricks and a range of recycled materials. His ceramics and sculptures share some of this obsession with recycled materials which he says he uses because he is poor; however, this results in a quite extraordinary aesthetic. As well as working in clay, Pearce is a painter and etcher. He has held numerous group and solo exhibitions of his paintings, ceramics and sculptures over the years. In 2007, the Bendigo Art Gallery held an exhibition of his sketchbooks from the previous decade to provide insights into his artistic practice and creative processes. His ceramic work may be marked with an impressed 'Pearce' and/or 'COW' for Blind Cow Pottery.

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