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Maiju Altpere-Woodhead

My work explores the reciprocal relationship between recollection and new environment. As recent migrant from Estonia my sense of belonging is divided and I investigate the hybrid nature of memory and issues of personal meaning-making by utilising a ceramic mono-printing method that combines elements of classical intaglio and mono-print with ceramic mater...

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Avi Amesbury

Patterns in time call through the land. A faint song, gently whispered, recordings from the past etched deeply by the passage of time. Lingering - there, then gone. Now; then; life; death; time moves. Each found beneath the other, until once again we remember a time. Relationships between experience, memory and landscape are the subject matter...

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Debra Boyd Goggin

How clay moves and feels is primarily what draws my attention to working with it. I find it personal and revealing but also frustrating and overwhelming. It's refreshing how clay forms and the array of surface treatment can stimulate emotions and the intellect. I'm on a constant journey of exploration, discovery and reflection. Much of my work responds to...

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Sarit Cohen

I work on clay featuring porcelain and paper clay while exploring my heritage. I draw my inspiration from the landscape and from places where I grew up in Israel. My work explores those places and relates it back to where I live now in Australia. My work reflects a journey that I experienced in childhood; I was born in Beersheba - a town in the Negev ...

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Anna Gianakis

Process driven design used to develop industrial prototypes and semi-industrial manufacturing techniques is the focus of my ceramic practice. How this trend might deal with notions of identity is of particular interest to me as homogenously developed mass-produced objects have provided an opportunity for designer/maker entrepreneurs to satisfy a social n...

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John Heaney

I am continually delighted by the fact that the earth's most basic material, clay, can be the medium for expressing complex and subtle emotions and ideas. The civilisations within South America, Asia, the Mediterranean and Africa made very sophisticated and culturally significant objects as well as basic utensils. With imagination and fresh insights that ...

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Bev Hogg

Over the past seventeen years my ceramic artwork has continued to develop as a social commentary often incorporating found objects. My passionate concern for the environment is an essential part of my practice, and as an artist I continually strive for a synthesis of technique and concept to express more clearly the issues that inform my work. My figur...

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Anita McIntyre

The Australian landscape in a number of manifestations - the local Brindabella Ranges, the Central Desert and the Kimberley's - has informed my practice for some thirty years. It constitutes the continuing narrative of journey, place and time that is the essence of my art. Although specific place(s) may be alluded to, my Australian landscape is a generali...

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Gail Nichols

I make generously rounded, eccentric vessels, thrown and manipulated, with lush dimpled surfaces inviting tactile as well as visual responses. The surfaces on these vessels have evolved through years of technical research with soda glazing, development of materials and processes, and investigation of glaze microstructure. The research was done to satisfy...

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Kaye Pemberton

I enjoy the contradiction of vitrified clay enveloping the softness of volume. Currently, I am experimenting with the plastic quality of porcelain clay during the throwing process. The process of throwing leads one's further investigation of each series of forms. The murini motifs with which I decorate the pieces are symbols representing moments or fee...

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Catherine Reid

I am interested in themes of nature, of journey and passage of the life of the spirit. I explore these themes in large installations. Technically, I work predominately with smoke firing and black firing techniques and more recently with unglazed porcelain. I am particularly interested in the grouping and repetition of multiple forms and patterning and som...

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Lia Tajcnar

My work is about the evolution of how ideas manifest themselves into objects and an ongoing relationship between surface and form, or presentation and representation. The work is created using a diverse range of materials and technical processes so that it evokes a sense of multiplicity and pluralism and foregrounds a sense of ongoing creative investigati...