Gerry Wedd is renowned for his contribution as a designer for Mambo Graphics as well as his professional practice as a ceramist. He has won several awards including the Hobart Art Prize in 2010 and the Sidney Myer Fund International Ceramics Award in 1998. In 1991 he co-founded the Jamboree Clay Workshop in Adelaide. He is represented in public collections around the country including the Art Gallery of South Australia.