What a great week in Sydney at Australian Ceramics Triennale!

Takeshi Yasuda demonstrating in the sunshine

The ceramics world in Sydney is slowly returning to normal after a wonderful Australian Ceramics Triennale. With over 50 exhibitions, it's hard to choose favourites, but I have a few: BEAKER CULTURE at Flinders St Gallery (bought a lovely 2 beaker set there by Trisha Dean), TABLEWARES at Rex Irwin (too late to buy the piece of choice), TERRA ANIMA (Avital Sheffer) at Robin Gibson (no money left by then), NEW FRIENDS, ART AND ADVENTURE (Aeden Harris) at the Japan Foundation Gallery (one piece still to collect) and WHITE HEAT at Manly Art Gallery (a translucent pair of Avi Amesbury's will sit on my windowsill). Planet (tableware), Helen Stephens (Kenji Uranishi), Brenda May (Ceramics Revisions) and Animalia (Irianna Kanellopoloulou) at Global Gallery also featured work which I will stay with me  - such diversity and some admirable new work. 

I felt positive after the discussion on future directions of ceramics education, disappointed by the lack of meaningful talk on writing and stimulated by Kim Dickey's keynote address.

The historical National Art School and its sandstone buildings  provided a perfect backdrop for demos by local and international ceramic artists. 

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Taken into the morning sunshine to record their translucence ...

... my pinch pot pourers are finished, ready to deliver to 

Object, 417 Bourke St, Surry Hills.

Pourers will be shown in the Collectors Cabinet 

from Sat 11 - Sun 26 July

Tues to Sun, 11am - 6pm

  

White Heat at Manly

After being the middle-person between the curator, Julie Bartholomew, the 25 artists and the Manly Art Gallery & Museum, I was thrilled to see the exhibition open on Friday 12 June. It looks great! The diversity of the work and how the tradition of ceramics has been used to tell stories, make commentary on social, political and cultural issues, pushing all the boundaries,  is inspiring. 

Well worth a visit - the location is fantastic - right on Sydney Harbour.

Curator of WHITE HEAT: Dr Julie Bartholomew

Pru Morrison's series on our pollies - worth a MUCH closer look

The main gallery at Manly Art Gallery & Museum

Meng-shu You with her installation

Manly afternoon, Sunday 14 June

Pourers in progress...

I am making some pinched forms for Pourers, to be shown in the collectors cabinet at Object Gallery 11– 26 July, during the Australian Ceramics Triennale. I am using Cool Ice porcelain.