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Beautiful Issey Miyake tribute from Gerry Wedd. MP Beautiful Issey Miyake tribute from Gerry Wedd. MPosted @withregram • @gerrywedd Issey and Lucie…”The link between Rie’s work and fashion is long and rich. Her tiny frame was always clad in top-to-toe white (despite the clay); in 1989, the Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake was inspired to make clothes for Rie. She responded by giving to Miyake a collection of ceramic buttons that had lain hidden away since the ’50s. These formed the basis for Miyake’s Autumn/Winter 1989 collection, which featured Rie’s buttons on oversized collars.” Apollo Magazine
Cluster of black and white 'checked' periwinkles, Cluster of black and white 'checked' periwinkles, blue barnacle fragment. #littoralzone #rockpool #saltwater #shellpattern #yuincountry
Sunshine through salt water: dusky pink corraline Sunshine through salt water: dusky pink corraline algae, bright green Ulva lactuca (sea lettuce) and a kakai seaweed. Does someone know its name? #rockplatform #yuincountry #tidalpool #rockpool #seaweeds #littoralzone
Fossil records #rockplatform #meroonationalpark Fossil records #rockplatform #meroonationalpark #mudstone #fossils #yuincountry
Edges #wairobeach #lagoobhead #yuincountry #rimth Edges #wairobeach #lagoobhead #yuincountry #rimtheory #edges
Another Marine bowl 1979. After completing my Bo Another Marine bowl 1979. After completing my Booralie Pottery apprenticeship making domestic ware with Richard Brooks and Lex Dickson, I designed these thrown earthenware bowls, decorated with motifs that could be repeated with variations to create rockpool like patterns. I loved improvising across a series - still do. I didn't become a production potter, but I owe what I know about volume, void, profile, membrane, contour, rim theory to the discipline of repetition throwing and chats about pot aestheics with those guys. Happy days and their pots live on. @_lexdickson_ #richardbrookspotter #leachtradition #rimtheory #repetitionthrowing #twentiethcenturyart #marinebowl #gundungurracountry #rockpoolmotifs #paintedearthenware #potteryaesthetics
Barnacles: brush drawing on studio pinboard. Blue Barnacles: brush drawing on studio pinboard. Blue watercolour on non archival grey cardboard. Drawing on 'arte povera' materials like cardboard, brown paper, scraps of wood, the backs of envelopes, somehow keeps me in the flow of thought and process. On proper archival materials I seem to become more self conscious - not necessarily a bad thing. Either way, it's hit and miss. #onthestudiowall #artepovera #artepoveramaterials #watercolouroncardboard #brushdrawing #bluebarnacles #gundungurracountry @sharawadgi_hall
Marine bowls (1979) decorated with a series of mot Marine bowls (1979) decorated with a series of motifs that could be repeated with variations to create rockpool like patterns. At the time I was reading Yanagi's 'Unknown Craftsman' and inspired by the seasonal motifs and fluent brush gestures of Ogara Kenzan and the hakeme style. Later, I read the translation of 'Difference and Repetition' by Gilles Deleuze. Ideas about continuity, repetition, particularity, time and the matter in hand continue to have their allure. #ceramicpatterns #rockpoolmotifs #hakeme #studiopottery
Gingko leaf prints. Kyoto sketchbook 1996. Guoach Gingko leaf prints. Kyoto sketchbook 1996. Guoache on paper #leafprint #gingkoleafprint #gingkobiloba #guoacheonpaper #monoprints #kyotosketchbook #gundungurracountry
We followed the forest paths on Mt Hiei. Ink an We followed the forest paths on Mt Hiei. Ink and brush on paper 1996 #kyotosketchbook #inkandbrushonpaper #memorywalking
Fake antique pot as phone booth - espionage and th Fake antique pot as phone booth - espionage and the inanimate - microfilm in a matchbook... though not the Edwardian prose of Conan Doyal's narrator's voice for Dr Watson, the black and white movie provides amusing Sherlockian winter comfort viewing for a crime fiction tragic. Basil R's profile is an identikit match for Sydney Paget's illustrations of the sleuth in the Strand Magazine. Filmically, the character of Dr Watson is somewhat diminished and in my view, not properly reinstated until Martin Freeman's brilliant portrayal opposite Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes. Pics 1- 4 Holmes confronts villain and discovers pot-phone. pics 5-7 earlier scenes of henchman revealing pot-phone to viewers. #crimefictiontragic #potphone #fakeantique #basilrathbone #bgradefilmnoir #filmprops #sherlockian #sherlockholmesmovie #gundungurracountry
Grotto vase anagama fired, from the 'vaserium'. W. Grotto vase anagama fired, from the 'vaserium'. W.IP. in that I had begun this seiries and had one bisque fired that I brought it to Sturt to put into the FuPing group Anagama firing. The iron slip got REALlY cooked in reduction so I packed it away. Yesterday it appeared it when I was dispersing boxes in the studio. So now it's out for critical contemplation and some redemtive gestures towards themes and variations. Filled with birthday flowers for @chris._ward it sits on 'manic depressive wambat cupboard' painted by @fleurmacdonald. #vaserium #grottovase #anagamafired #handbuiltvase #redemptivegestures #gundungurracountry @sturtgalleryandstudios #fuping
The glowing refinement of woodfired luncheon plate The glowing refinement of woodfired luncheon plates by @bandicootpottery and cobalt brushed sericite porcelain cups by Steve Harrison make an occasion of our workaday lunch of open sandwich, leftovers and a cup of miso soup.(on a cheery crossstitched op-shop gingham cloth) @australianceramics www.tonightmyfingerssmellofgarlic @sturtgalleryandstudios #studiopottery #functionalpottery #luncheonplates #woodfiredpottery #everdayanoccasion #gundungurracountry
'Burning Curiosity' at Sturt Gallery is a beautif 'Burning Curiosity' at Sturt Gallery is a beautifully callibrated show. Each ceramic artist creates unique, wood fueled, 'kiln weather' glazes from different elements: fused salt, by Sandy Lockwood, molten rock and ash by Steve Harrison and tin oxide and silver nitrate by Megan Patey . The epic in the everyday imbues the functional resonance of these pots. Haptic awareness plays through the tactile fluidity of Sandy Lockwood's thrown clay compositions, textured accretion forms and meandering finger trailed slips. Megan Patey has painted pigments on clay for forty years. Her sinewy brush gestures seem to emanate from the lightness of air and space around her body to alight in irridescent scatter patterns on simple round and square dish forms. Steve Harrison has returned to mark making as a way to draw his fragile psyche through the trauma of the 2019 bushfire that destroyed his entire means of production. In his renewed engagement with translucent white sericite, Steve's thrown, lense like forms carry firey patterns that alude to the terryfying view of sparks and embers that he winessed through the spyhole of the fibre kiln that saved his life when he crawled inside to shelter from the inferno. John Freeland's opening remarks aknowledged the potters' existential creative resiliance in concert with life's uncertainties. 'Lineage' His comprehensive article about the work of the three artists is featured in the current issue of the Journal of Australian ceramics.vol 61 No 2 July 2022 (note: the fantastic term ' kiln weather' was invented by Neil Hoffman to allude to the range of atmospheres that can be conjured in kilns.) Indeed a wonderful Sunday at Sturt: in and out of the gallery, the artists' talks, the archive, the wood firings, encountering old friends, strolling through the garden, Hellebores galore. @australianceramics @sturtgalleryandstudios #contemporaryceramics #saltglaze #reducedpigmentlustre #tinglaze #kilnweather @neilhoffmannceramics #hellebores #scatterpattern #tonightmyfingerssmellofgarlic #gundungurracountry #hapticawareness #brushwork #silvernitrate #irridescence #shimmer #fingertrails #burningcuriosity
I am a big fan of @waldies.school and their masco I am a big fan of @waldies.school and their mascot Margie and of @australianceramics @australianceramicstriennale in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, all of which i am enjoying from a distance via so many wonderful insta posts. Posted @withregram • @waldies.school The Waldies team contributed 20 vessels to Mugs On Mugs, at The Bath House Studios in Mparntwe/Alice Springs. Mug sales are supporting The Strong Grandmothers of the Central Desert Region, a group of elders with a focus on kids in country not in custody, who are worried about their grandchildren's safety on the streets and in the youth justice and welfare systems. Most of the 225 mugs have already sold, and the line is still wrapped around the balcony an hour after opening. Many of our mugs have sold, and we’re feeling a bit chuffed! We won’t be bringing 20 cups home with us!! @australianceramicstriennale
Eucalyptusdom @powerhousemuseum Nicole Barakat in Eucalyptusdom @powerhousemuseum Nicole Barakat in collaboration with Rohingya Women's Development Organisation. Contributing artists: Sajeda Bahadarmia, Shamim Ara Solaiman, Riham Solaiman, Wafa Solaiman, Mahmuda, Aisha Aisha, Maryam Bi, Syanida Syanida, Shakira Shakira, Khaleda Fazul Ahmad, Shahira Rafiqul, Shazan Begum, Marzeya Azimullah and Jannakar Alam "It will be a memory for me, I have learnt so many things from this tree Embedded within the fibres of this cloth are memories of time, of learning and connecting; of being in kinship with family and community, of language and the warmth of home-cooked meals. We are reminded to say to the eucalypt: Salell as-salaam alaykum, Peace be upon you; as taught by our mothers, to show respect and gratitude. As we gather her leaves and bark from the ground, we pay our respect to Darug Country and the Elders whose Nation we gather and create on." Silk cloth steam-printed and dyed with Eucalyptus leaves and bark, hand embroidered with cotton thread #eucalyptusdom #eucalyptusdyes #contemporarytextileart #diedpatchwork #RohingyaWomen'sDevelopmentOrganisation. @nicolembarakat
Yasmin Smith in Eucalyptusdom (Copied label text): Yasmin Smith in Eucalyptusdom (Copied label text): "STARS (Castle Hill Plantation 2021) This site-derived installation is produced exclusively from materials collected from the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences' former eucalypt research plantation on Bidjigal land at Castle Hill. The work is conceived in two phases, with the second phase to be installed in Spring. Inorganic elements a tree derives from the soil, and water that nourish it remain in its cellular fibre after death. These glazes reflect trace metals retained by the plantation leaf-fall and one burnt eucalypt tree. A shifting spectrum of colour grows like an apparition of the gum tree. A manifestation of the tree's own memory-it's physical, biological and chemical essence. Humans also retain trace elements from the universe. We are all literally made of stardust. Phase one: Plaster moulds of plantation floor use two: Stoneware with leaf-fall ash-glaze, stoneware slip with spotted gum ash-glazes Commissioned by PHM 2021" #contemporarysculpture #contemporaryceramics #eucalyptusdom
Spent a recent afternoon studying the art of thre Spent a recent afternoon studying the art of three painters: Ben King at NASHA, Simon Blau at Gallery 9 and Colin Lanceley at the National Art School Gallery. Captivated by the abject, emotive smudge and melt in Ben King's painting with glazes on clay forms! 1-3. In awe of the nonchalant particularity of Simon Blau's abstract compositions and the laconic rigour of his painted surfaces and colour palette: those oblique angles! those pinks! 4-7 My first 'in the real' encounter with the encrusted, Art Povera surfaces of Lanceley's 'Annandale Imitation Realist' works.8. Entering the spirit of innovative play between decorative surfaces and the painted, found, readymade and hand carved objects in Colin Lanceley's shaped assemblage paintings, it was a delight to encounter two intriguing favourites, previously seen only in print: 'Prince Felix' 9 and "Lynne's Garden' 10. ( Both regrettably slightly cropped due to insta scale/framing constraints) @nasha.au @gallery9syd @belle_blau @nas_au #contemporarypainting #assemblage #abstraction #abstractpainting #contemporaryceramics #artpovera #arremblage #colinlanceley #simonblau #gadigalcountry #studyingpaintings #artilike
Imprints and 'griffes de sorciere': affinities #tr Imprints and 'griffes de sorciere': affinities #tracksinthesand #seagullfootprints #griffesdesorciere #saltwater #sandpiperfootprints #yuincountry
Rock fishing. X 7 zoom painting #rockfishing #aft Rock fishing. X 7 zoom painting #rockfishing #afternoonlight #yuincountry
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