03/05/2018
Handmade Table – Bush Picnic
- Welcome swallows. Drawing on porcelain. Beautiful photo by @blinkneye #australianartist #australianceramics #contemporaryceramics #artcollector #australianceramics #ceramics #keramik #セラミックス #陶器 #c éramique #poterie #cer ámica #contemporaryceramics
- Lichen and Sandpaper Figs. #australianceramics #Qlddesign #slowlivingforlife #localhandmade
- Making work, animals on pots are part of a long and crazy tradition. I think there is a parallel between the companionship we share with animals and the companionship and comfort we draw from important objects that travel this world with us. An animal on a pot enlivens an inanimate object creating a link to our human relationships with nature and within our own selves. Animals are symbolic on every level from culturally accepted symbols such as lions for courage or doves for peace through to personal animal talismans that remind us of those we love or a cherished, secret
- "Line of Desire" is the phrase used to describe the the unofficial paths created by desire rather than officially designated paths. A line of desire is an insistent bid for independence and freedom. I think the lines Welcome Swallows trace through the blue air are lines of desire, impossible to photograph or follow. Only motion and light. #australianceramics #Qlddesign #welcomeswallow #birdsofaustralia #australianartist #drawing
- The rainforest is full of strange creatures, living in symbiotic relationships. Lichen is a symbiosis of fungi and algae. (sometimes known as cyanobacteria-blue-green algae) Together these organisms can synthesise chemicals not found in either organism or anywhere else in nature. The shy, humble appearance of this strange hybrid is a disguise for the complexity of the relationships it forms with other organisms in the surrounding environment. Pots showing in "Depths of Light" @narekgalleries January 2019 Lovely image of detail by @blinkneye #australianceramics #Qlddesign #terrasig #subtropicalforest #lichen #markmaking #instapottery #pottersofinstagram #artcollector #australianartist
- "Depths of Light" Narek Galleries @narekgalleries 19th January Beautiful photo by @blinkneye
- Sleeping Beauty Australis (at @rochfortgallery ) Composition is a fascinating, formal aspect of drawing, it can lead the eye around a drawing, picking you up and depositing you somewhere unexpected. With three dimensional objects the composition communicates with the form, the drawing interacting not only with the shape but also with the cultural history of that particular form. In this way the drawing is very active, all the times we've touched, looked at or interacted with a bowl coming to bear on the drawing. I love this about decorated pots. #australianceramics #Qlddesign #pottersofinstagram #potterytechniques #markmaking #australianartist
- I recently had a a photo shoot with Greg Piper @blinkneye . It was a lot more fun than I thought it was going to be. We had such a great time in the studio. Greg is one of the rare photographers who really "gets" three dimensional objects, considering carefully what the image has to convey. I thought he also "got" the ceramic artist as he encouraged and persuaded and I messed about in front of the camera. It's a pleasure to watch other artists work. #australianceramics #Qlddesign #terrasig #instapottery #pottersofinstagram #australianartist #markmaking #ceramics #keramik #セラミックス #陶器 #c éramique #poterie #cer ámica #contemporaryceramics
- I started my artistic career decorating pots for @clairylaurence in her beautiful little gallery in Red Hill called Amfora. She was an inspiration to a bunch of us fleeing the torture of "conceptual art" at art college. Most of the artists who worked with Clairy are still practicing artists. Kylie Johnson runs @paperboatpress and has a thriving business, Maria Breeden @o_bliss is an art teacher and jeweller, David Usher, a painter and endlessly creative ceramicist, Monica Usher just finished a body of work for a solo show at Toowoomba Regional Gallery and my dear friend Melissa Booth @melissa_makes_stuff channels her
- Working on big pots! I've been so intimidated by these big pots, as with a lot of scary things they are not so bad once you get to know them! I actually think we could become friends. These are for my solo show "Depths of Light" at @narekgalleries in January. The wonderful @tedsecombe helped me make them. #australianceramics #Qlddesign #terrasig #instapottery #australianartist #markmaking
- Detail. "Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer." From one of my favourite books E. M Forster's Howard's End. #australianceramics #Qlddesign #terrasig #seaweed #australianartist #instapottery