Klytie Pate Award 2018

Delighted to be selected to participate in the Kyltie Pate Award again this year. 

Klytie Pate Award and Exhibition 

Opening Tuesday 6 March 6pm (speeches at 6:30)

Exhibition 7-14 March open daily 10am to 4pm

MAG - 4 Highett Street

Mansfield Vic 3722

Tel 0407 664 202

This year's entry is part of a new body of work that continues to look at the contours, colours of landscape particular around the high country around Mansfield and Merrijig.

Entitled River Vessel, this pot also brings in the colours and rhythmic textures of the Delatite River. 

It's MAGiC

Delighted to have been chosen for inclusion in the 2017 Klytie Pate Award. In it's inaugual year, the exhibition will be part of he Mansfield Art Glass Incorporating Ceramics (MAGiC) exhibition. 

8 - 15 March 2017

This work is entitled It Never Rains...

hand coiled & pinched stoneware clay, stoneware glazes, hand painted oxides and stains

About Klytie Pate: see NGV collection

About Klytie Pate Award: see here

Growing bigger...Northcote Pottery Artist in Residence

End of my second week at Northcote Pottery and I am loving the extra elbow room and the sweet Brunswick light.

Time to start making my free-form, hand pinched trees bigger, well bigger than my 10cm finger reach can manage.

This beauty is 32 cm tall, now to get it through the bisque.

WONKY ~ group exhibition

Opening 14th July 6-8 pm

Curated by Sophia Cai & Caitlin Shearer

Featuring artists
John Brooks (VIC), Tara Burke (NSW), Rachael McCallum (NSW), Belinda Evans (VIC), Luke Maninov Hammond (QLD), Niamh Minogue (VIC), Zhu Ohmu (VIC), Yoko Ozawa (VIC), Robyn Phelan (VIC), Gina Rockenwagner (USA), Elise Sheehan (VIC), Cassandra Smith (VIC), Charlotte Watson (VIC/NZ)
Wonky is a group exhibition inspired by the principles of wabi-sabi – a Japanese aesthetic philosophy that celebrates the imperfect and the transient. Taking this idea as a starting point, Wonky is an exhibition that examines unpredictability and impermanence, both in art and in life.
Wonky features 13 Australian and international artists working across diverse
mediums including ceramics, drawing, sculpture, jewellery and textiles. While some artists take direct inspiration from Japanese art, others approach the topic in their own idiosyncratic way. Together, their works acknowledge the uncontrollable forces of nature and the unpredictable nature of ‘making’.

Unbearable Promise of the Rain Cloud series

Exhibition dates:

July 14 – 24, Thursday – Sunday 11am to 5pm Opening July 14, 6-8 pm

Gallery Tinning St Presents
Lot 5/29 Tinning St, Brunswick, VIC 3056 http://www.tinningstreetpresents.com

Free Public Programs
Artist Talks
Saturday July 16, 2pm
Please join the curators for a discussion with artists Zhu Ohmu, Robyn Phelan and Luke Maninov Hammond on the theme of wabi-sabi as it relates to their artistic practice.
Meditation Session
Friday July 22, 10am
Artist Charlotte Watson will lead a meditation session in the gallery space.
Nature Walk & Performance
Sunday July 24, from 2pm
To close the exhibition, please join artists Cassandra Smith & John Brooks for a nature walk of the gallery’s surround. Later, come back to the gallery for a closing performance piece by artist Rachael McCallum. Green tea will be served.
Catalogue
Sarah McNeil of ROOM PRESS will produce a limited edition risograph printed catalogue to commemorate and celebrate the exhibition and the contributing artists – it will be a souvenir of the exhibition and an artwork in its own right. Risograph printing lends itself to the theme of wonky with its natural idiosyncrasies and handcrafted vibes.http://roompress.com.au/

#wearewonky

It Never Rains it Pours

Chuffed to be a finalist in two award shows this month.

Showing at the Victorian Craft Award, CRAFT: 1 August - 15 August 2015.

Hope you can come along to the announcement 4.15 at the LaTrobe Ballroom, Sofitel on Collins. 
Here's the invite.

Unbearable Promise of the Rain Cloud- Weather Cycle (detail), 2015, hand pinched & painted porcelain.

Showing at the Manningham Art Gallery in the Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award

From 15 July to 29 August 2015

Congratulations Dean Smith on taking out the major award. For more details and other acquisitions see here.

Unbearable Promise of the Rain Cloud, 2015, hand pinched & painted porcelain.

Storm in a Teacup

History Always Repeats, July - August 2015

Wendy Garden has curated my Honours installation Porcelain Wall - Ode to an Obsession into the exhibition Storm in a Teacup. The exhibition contexturalises Australia's tea drinking culture with historic objects & paintings alongside work by contemporary artists. It's good to be reminded that Melbourne's fervour for a warm beverage was once for tea not coffee. Artists include: Charles Blackman, E. Phillips Fox, Rosalie Gascoigne, Danie Mellor, Anne Zahalka, Vipoo Srivilasa & Penny Byrne.

Storm in a Teacup & Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery link here.

Interview with Wendy for 774 ABC Melbourne link here.

Depleted (detail), 2010, refers to the mining and exhausting of the porcelain material kaolin used in the ceramic manufacture in Jingdezhen since the 1300s.