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.

Guild of Objects opens

Guild of Objects is now open and selling a sweet selection of my From Here To There sculptures AND cups and bowls. 

Here's a recent #shelfie of this new ceramics outlet in North Melbourne. Great work Brooke, Chela & Tao. 

Check out Guild of Objects here.

Collective X Christmas Sale

11th-14th December 2014 11am-7pm.
Thanks Slow Clay for making me part of this years Collective X
Come and grab some excellent Chrissy gifts (and spoil yourself at the same time).

Studio Sale

Tuesday 9 December 2014 5-8pm
Callling North/West Melbourne locals
Check out my flirtations with functional ware: coffee & tea cups, pudding bowls, beakers.

 

Craft's Summer Catalogue

November 2014-February 2015
Delighted to be included in the 2015 Craft Summer Catalogue.
Peruse here

Craft's first Pop Up Shop at the Melbourne Town Hall

So pleased to be part this superbly styled event. 

14 September - 11 October 2014

Seven days a week.

See more about Craft's PoP Up Shop

Off to Adelaide and the Subversive Clay Conference

Am giving a paper on Sunday 2 September entitled Is That All There Is? in which I ask:
Should we expect more from an exhibition of ceramics than just the presentation of crafted objects?

I'll be making observations about a range of ceramic-based exhibitions over the last six months in Melbourne. Am looking forward to catching up with fellow panel members  Anna Maas, Fleur Schell and meeting our final panel member Leslie Ferrin, USA.