“Good design makes everything in life more pleasurable. Just ask one of our top chefs, Steve Manfredi, who is marketing some of the best ceramic espresso cups around. Designed by one of our hottest potters,  Rod Bamford  ...they have smooth strong lines and are beautiful to hold”

Melissa Penfold Sydney Morning herald, Domain,11th October, 2000

“Rod Bamford’s design is well on the way to becoming an Australian classic”

Stephano Manfredi on the Cup Suite, 2005

“...a suite of cups so innovative and beautiful, that in the short time they have been in use, the Powerhouse Museum has included them in their collection”

“Innovative and simple to apply, allowing different styles to be created"

Judges comments, Interior Designex 1999, where Cone Nine Design achieved a product design award for Soft metal Tiles

“ When I reviewed his last solo exhibition three years ago, I said that .'the forms bridge the gap between ceramics and sculpture in a way never before expressed'. This is even more true today......Bamford has extended his single fragment works to incorporate more pieces and stacked and placed to form important contemplative works.............In 1984 I said that Bamford was one to watch for, now sit back and enjoy the show”

Kim Martin on Roderick Bamford'ssolo exhibition at Devise gallery. The Age Arts & Entertainment. December 1987

"He becomes the archaeologist who re creates the present by flinging it into the past"

Kim Bowe on Roderick Bamford's solo show at Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery .Crafts Arts International, December,1987

“Bamford exemplifies a number of other potters who consciously or unconsciously work within modern ideas of revaluing and reusing historical motifs and forms, evoking feelings of recognition and nostalgia from the viewer.”

Grace CochraneAustralian Decorative Arts in the Powerhouse Museum, 1992

“Though logically contrived it was constructed in a way that the variable was always present. While clearly ordered, it also became potentially unpredictable, disruptive”

Susan Ostling on Roderick Bamford's work."Zipper", 'Place Product', Ipswich residency 1994.