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Collaborative Projects – Sharawadgi Hall

by admin | Jul 1, 2020 | Collaborative Projects | 0 comments

Sharawadgi Hall

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Discarded knot ecountered on a foot path in Manly Discarded knot ecountered on a foot path in Manly last week, photographed, not collected. After hand making a lot of things from clay I can become tired of touch and its imprints. Some years back, after a beachcoming holiday, my eye was in for intricacy and when i returned to Marrickville I began to notice discarded knots on pavements. I began a collection of found knots, cut from one or both of the two ends that had come together when somebody tied a knot to secure something. Severed by someone in too much of a hurry to untie the knot? Perhaps by someone whose fingers could not undo the knot? My collection comprised knots cut from many kinds of rope, string, tape and fabric and was displayed in an exhibition called 'Sleight' at Mori Gallery in which I had not actually made anything. Although, after finding knotted Araucaria fronds by the seaside at Manly and Thirroul on more than one occasion, I devised a bronze multiple, cast from knotted fronds and titled 'Araucarias are ancient' A magician was engaged to perform the Chefalo vanishing knot trick at the opening. #discardedknot #foundknot #severedknot #foundobject #objettrouve #gadigalcountry #sleight #morigallerydaystreet #knotcollection
Thanks to administrator, Jade Bull and the team at Thanks to administrator, Jade Bull and the team at SHAC (Southern Highlands Artisans Collective). Appreciation to the member volunteers in the collective (many of whom are artists and craftspeople) who did gallery shifts over the last month. It has been a pleasure to meet some of you. Gratitude to Susan Buret for dreaming up the idea for 'from a studio garden' and to all who visited, and those who acquired our work. It's been a joy to show my ceramics with paintings by Ruth Waller and monotypes by Leah Bullen alongside a solo show of superb mixed media collages by Julie Bradley. Today is the last day. Our catalogues remain online for a month (see link in bio) and our artist interviews with Jade Bull will soon be on the SHAC blog. 1 turquoise dish with black swan and reclining woman in a striped dress 2 Leah Bullen: easily distracted by the weather (3). monotype 3 Ruth Waller: (detail ) Magnolia major, acrylic on board with balsa wood 4 offering 1 5 offering 2 6 SHAC gallery Thanks also to @artistsoftheroundyard (the local artists' collective I belong to) for the loan of trestles and to @chris._ward for help with the install. @jadebull.art @sburetblackhousestudio #gundungurracountry #contemporaryceramics #theodoragoodmansdress #blackswansinreedsmotif #contemporarypainting #contemporarycollage #contmporarymonoprints
'Shapes that resemble flowers' 1,2,3 (polychrome g 'Shapes that resemble flowers' 1,2,3 (polychrome glazed container) and 4, planning the arrangement of the 'tablescape' in the studio, at the beginning. #fromastudiogarden #shapesthatresembleflowers #contemporaryceramics #gundungurracountry #groupexhibition
1.'BED' ceramic object imprinted with gestures fro 1.'BED' ceramic object imprinted with gestures from gardening trowel and dibbler. 2 parcel of dahlia bulbs just arrived from @settlepetalbackyardflowers 3 'night tile' 4 'tablescape' 5 'Bed' in 'from a studio garden' a group show with painters, Ruth Waller and Leah Bullen, curated by Susan Buret. Link to SHAC catalogues in bio 10-4 Thurs-Sun until this Sunday Dec1. @shac_gallery #gundungurracountry #fromastudiogarden #contemporaryceramics #contemporarymonotypes #contemporarypainting @ruthwaller6060 @sburetblackhousestudio #object
'Fauvish figurine,' a gardener (2007-24) glazed te 'Fauvish figurine,' a gardener (2007-24) glazed terracotta It can take some time for me to arrive at the right glazes for a piece. The polychrome glaze palette that I come and go from seems right and Matisse helped things along. She arrived from an ongoing series of haptic figure drawings of gestures and postures of gardening. Fauvush figurine presides over my 'tablescape' of mixed ceramic genres in 'from a studio garden' a group show I am delighted to participate in with painters Ruth Waller and Leah Bullen, curated by Susan Buret. YES we are all keen gardeners and students of the gardener's art and cuttings and bulbs have been swapped, traded and promised. SHAC open Thurs to Sun 10am-4pm This is the final week. See link in bio for online catalogues. #fromastudiogarden #gundungurracountry #fauvishfigurine #tablescape #contemporaryceramics #contemporarypainting #ceramicfigurine @leah.bullen @sburetblackhousestudio
Solidarity- in time, situation and craft was numbe Solidarity- in time, situation and craft was number one of the many things I loved about the recent National Autralian Ceramics open studio weekend. I felt happy just thinking about the many particpating studios being visited all over the country, the conversations, the amazing ceramics, the excitement of collectors, the lovely work spaces.... Topological games: some small cup shapes pinched from one lump of clay with no joins....participants on the left and my demi tasse demos with slip and sgraffito patterns on the right. Thanks to everyone who visited my AgitPot open studio and collaborative exhibition with Elizabeth Rowe in Sharawadgi Hall on the ACOS weekend.. Elizabeth and I found the whole experience of engaging with visitors about our ceramics incredibly rewarding. We had the best of times. #topologicalinvestigations @australianceramics #agitpot #openceramicstudio #gundungurracountry #solidarity
Today's open ceramic studio was so very enjoyabl Today's open ceramic studio was so very enjoyable.Our neighbour dropped in and painted this terrific sign. It was quite wonderful to sit in my VERY tidy AgitPot studio in meditative conversation with a group of interested visitors and play a topological game of modelling a small cuo with handle and foot from one contnuous lump of clay. Gratitude to @chris._ward for all the fantastic behind the scenes help Elizabeth Rowe and I were delighted with the opportunity to share and discuss our ceramics exhibition in Sharawadgi Hall with visitors who came from far and near today. We are on for another round on Sunday. See link in bio for a map of other open studios in the Soutern Highlands coordinated by @australianceramics #gundungurracountry #topologicalinvestigations #gratitude .
Meanwhile, back at SHAC, 'garland' informed by m Meanwhile, back at SHAC, 'garland' informed by maiolica festoons made by the Della Robbia family. Whilst horizontal here in the tablrscape, it can also hang on a vertical plane. 'from a studio garden' with paintings by Leah Bullen and Ruth Waller curated by @sburetblackhousestudio Continues until Sunday 1st December See link in bio for online catalogue #gundungurracountry @shac_gallery #tablescape #contemporaryceramics #dellarobbiainfluence #garland
Unpacked a few blue n whites this morning for Agi Unpacked a few blue n whites this morning for AgitPot open ceramics studio and exhibtion in Sharawadgi Hall with work by Elizabeth Statis Rowe and me this weekend See link in bio for location map #gundungurracountry #openceramicstudio
art trifecta Southern Highlands- it’s late not art trifecta Southern Highlands- it’s late notice, I know, but  I would still like to let you know about my personal ‘art trifecta’ situation this coming weekend in the Southern Highlands  NSW. 1. You are invited to  visit my   AgitPot 0pen ceramic studio this Sat  23, and Sun 24th November with an  exhibition of ceramics by Elizabeth Statis- Rowe and me in Sharawadgi Hall across the garden from my open AgitPot studio where you can see work in progress, even try out some clay. We will have ceramics for sale Open from 10 am to 4pm both days See link in bio for map with addtess and other open studios in the Southern Highlands and Illawarra. (images2-5) 2 this will be the last weekend to see my "Siren song" drawings and  'siren song' ceramic multiple, included in Voyager, a fabulous group exhibition by Artists of the Round Yard Inc, an artists’ collective that I am a member of, based at Retford Park, Bowral a property of the National Trust NSW.https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/event/voyager-by-the-artists-of-the-round-yard/ art almanac whats on  (also in print edition out now https://www.art-almanac.com.au/whats-on/nsw/ (images 6-9) 3. This will be the  second last weekend to see my 'tablescape' of ceramic genres in  'from a studio garden' with painters, Ruth Waller and Leah Bullen at SHAC gallery in Robertson (last day Sunday 1st December.) (images 10-12) Retford Park and SHAC galleries are  open Thurs to Sun from 10 am - 4pm.  Whatever you do, wherever you go, have a great weekend! #gundungurracountry @australianceramics #contemporaryceramics #tablescape #artcollective #ACOS2024 #arttrifecta
For @h_ollymacdonald and that Marrickville open st For @h_ollymacdonald and that Marrickville open studio memory, my favourite cookbook, actually bought second hand from a street stall in Livingston Rd. Looking forward to this national TACA Open Ceramic Studio weekend and thought I'd better share the recipe as i may not have time to bake Madeleine's for AgitPot open studio at Sutton Forest this Sat 23 Sun 24 Nov 10 am 4pm both days. #gundungurracountry #acos2024 #AgitPotstudio #madeleines
Sorting the garniture. It's wonderful to be partic Sorting the garniture. It's wonderful to be participating in the National Ceramics Open Studios this weekend. 23, 24th November. Elizabeth Rowe and I have put together a mini exhibition of our work in Sharawadgi Hall. This will be the first time this space has been open to visitors since it ceased being the Sutton Forest Public school in 2014. I will also be opening my rather more chaotic AgitPot studio across the garden. You might like to model a small object... or drop in for a cuppa and a chat about things ceramic with Elizabeth and me. We will also have some ceramics for sale and we are open 10am-4pm Saturday and Sunday. AgitPot studio is number 7 on the map for the Illawarra and Southern Tablelands so there is a wonderful trail you can do..See map link in bio or DM me for the address. Other ceramists on the map are 1.Clay Wollongong, (Illawarra). The remaining six are in the Southern Highlands, 2. Loopline Pottery Steve Harrison and Janine King, Balmoral Village, 3 Meg Patey Colo Vale,4.Tania Roland Mittagong, 5. Cintia Yamane Lemann, Glenquarry, 6. Blackhouse Studio, Susan Buret, Robertson, 7. AgitPot studio, Toni Warburton and guest, Elizabeth Rowe, Sutton Forest. #gundungurracountry @sharawadgi_hall @Australianceramics #agitpot #AgitPotstudio #garniture #ACOS2024 @megpateyceramic @taniarollond @claywoll @cintiaceramics @sburetblackhousestudio @toniwarburtonartist #looplinepottery
Reclining woman in a coloured striped dress and bl Reclining woman in a coloured striped dress and black swan in reeds motifs on a press moulded footed dish with reed pattern outside. Another piece from ' tablescape,' a composition of mixed ceramic genres in 'from a studio garden' with paintings by Ruth Waller and Leah Bullen curated by Susan Buret at SHAC see link in bio. #contemporaryceramics #gundungurracountry
"Theo" called Fanny, "look at Theo!" and well she "Theo" called Fanny, "look at Theo!" and well she might because the proud, striped skirt of Theodora Goodman streamed with fire. Her body bent to the music. Her face was thin with the music down to the bone. She was both realeased from her own body and imprisoned in the molten gold of Frank Parrot... p. 78. The Aunt's Story by Patrick White cup as woman in a striped dress dancing. Theodora Goodman's dress series. (Throughout the novel, when White descrbes how she is dressed, Theodora is always in stripes) 'from a studio garden' SHAC, Robertson until December 1st. link in bio #theodoragoodmansdress #contemporaryceramics #stripes #figurecup #gundungurracountry @shac_gallery
'Taost object' arose from an impulse to hand model 'Taost object' arose from an impulse to hand model white pipe clay over a solid terracotta brick to create a hollow form with the illusion of solidity. Paradoxical qualities of movement and dissolution were caught in a hovering moment of stoppage by the bisque firing. The resulting somewhat bland, slightly enigmatic, white object did time in a conceptual drawing installation of brown paper charcoal pipe clay, iron oxide and terracotta on the floor of the Raynor Hoff gallery at NAS. It returned to the studio to smoulder in limbo. My interest in firing melts and mutabilities led to a return to copper oxide and iron oxide pigments rather than stains. Dragged finger imprints over the surface suggested brushing a disrupted imbrication pattern, fluxed by transparent and translucent copper glazes. Gestures, flow forms and transformations suggested aspects of Taoist philosophy. Gratutude to the local collectors who have acquired this piece and to other collectors who have acquired works from my tablescape, composed of various ceramic genres in 'from a studio garden' with painters @ruthwaller6060 and @leah.bullen curated by Susan Buret @shac_gallery until Sunday 1st December. 'Taoist object,' earthenware, painted with ceramic oxides and glazes. #tabkescape #fromastudiogarden #object #abstractobject #ceramicobject #taoistobject #studioceramics #contemporaryceramics #gundungurracountry
This exquisite porcelain cup and saucer alighted w This exquisite porcelain cup and saucer alighted with my short black coffee. Translucent and covered with a filligree of sgraffito, it has been delicatley hand modelled. Some hand made things are like the stuff of fairy tales snd this finely wrought cup by Gerry Wedd is one of those. One feels as if the balance of material, captured energy and form could defy gravity and the rhythms and variations in the pattern dance with liveliness. Knowing that I delight in such things, it was given a cameo role at a dellicious dinner prepared by our hostess, a gardener and friend of one of the gardener artists in our current show 'from a studio garden' She was given the first cup and saucer then discovered aother in a mysrerious shop, once she had her eye in. There is lovely account by Garth Clarke about the pleasure of using a cup madw by Betty Woodman that has just come to mind. (I know my pictutrs could do them better justice but they are of the moment snd authentic dinner table lighting) #studiopottery #fairytalecupandsaucer #handpinchedporcelaincup #sgfaffito #gundungurracountry
tidal walk, rock platform, incoming tide, sou'west tidal walk, rock platform, incoming tide, sou'wester. #rockplatform #tidalwalk #seaweeds #yuincountry
'Bookends for small notebooks' (moorhen and flowe 'Bookends for small notebooks' (moorhen and flowers) in my mixed genre tablescape in 'from a studuo garden' with paintings by @ruthwaller6060 and monotypes by @leah.bullen @shac_gallery Thurs - Sun 10-4 until Dec1st. #gundungurracountry #fromasudiogarden #ceramicbookends #tablescape #stilllife #studiopottery #contemporaryceramics
my multiple, 'a chorus of sirens' and detail no 8 my multiple, 'a chorus of sirens' and detail no 8. 'Teles' (h7w5d3cm) In this exhibition, 'Voyager' @artistsoftheroundyard a group of eleven artists from our collective explore creative journeys in a diverse range of artworks at Retford Park in the Round Yard and White Cottage Galleries. On this weekend and 10am -4pm Thursday- Sunday until Nov 24th artist demonstration/talks by @julie_haseler_reilly and @monica_trapaga in the Round Yard on next weeked 16th,17thNov. #voyager #artmultiple #smallsculpture #ceramicmultiple #thetensirens #contemporaryceramics @nationaltrustnsw @australianceramics
AND... Godfrey Miller! 'Summer' 1.detail 2.philoso AND... Godfrey Miller! 'Summer' 1.detail 2.philosophy 3.Summer 4. the rest of the wall text The Macquarie Gallery show until Sunday @ngununggula #gundungurracountry #australianmodernistpainting
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