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Wildflowers in schooners, coloured pencil on paper

Wildflowers in schooners, coloured pencil on paper.35x27cm drawing book, Lagoon Head, Easter 2005. Thinking about transparency @thevaseandflowershow. #vaserium #stilllife #water #schooner #worksonpaper #drawingbook #drawing #wildflowers #Lagoonhead #Murramarangcountry #transpatency #chabanaflowers #chabana #flowersinaglass

Water flowed up to the branches when Payne's Creek

Water flowed up to the branches when Payne's Creek rose last week. #eastcoastlow #Gundungurracountry #Dharawalcountry #paynescreek #medwayrivulet #wingecarribeeriver #sydneycatchment #alwayswasalwayswillbe #waterreeds #floodplain

Looking back to move forward. Knotted striped curt

Looking back to move forward. Knotted striped curtain wall vase from 1990s. Thinking about draped cloth in interior spaces and still life painting. Might make something new for #thevaseandflowershow. A curtain at a window, the plane between inside and outside. A vase is a transitional container, carrying water and plant materials from outside to inside, from garden to room. Hand modelled terracotta painted with metallic and translucent glazes. #knottedcurtainvase #stilllife @australianceramics #drapery #vaserium #contemporarysculpture #sanvitalemosaics #vasemotif #glazedterracotta #puzzlejug #stripes #curtain #contemporaryart

Leo full moon Daffs, Snowflakes and foliage in pan

Leo full moon Daffs, Snowflakes and foliage in pansy vase for M.E. From the Vaserium, referencing possibilities for @thevaseandflowershow. Thanks @sassypark for inviting me in. #turqoise @merran_esson #vaserium #marrickvilleartpottery #stilllife #artresearch #daffodills #drapery #shaal #Padmasambhava @australianceramics #vintagevase

Finely potted teacup by Natalie Velthuyzen @nv.cer

Socially distanced arvo tea in good cup company. A

Socially distanced arvo tea in good cup company. Anticlockwise from top : boho Arabia, Gerry Wedd, Natalie Velthuyzen, anonymous. Thankyou @sue.pedley for snapping this pic. Yes, one has taken to cake baking: delving into my smudged and stained book of spells collected from women in my family when I was learning to cook. This one is Luv's sultana cake. Everyone, except us kids, called my grandmother 'Luv,' my grandfather's nickname for her. Cards to my parents would be signed : love, Luv. #sociallydistancedarvotea #odyanacafe #sharawadgi_hall #Leuniginternationaldayofthecup #artistsrecipebook #outdoortearoom @helen_stephens_gallery @australianceramics #studiopottery

Cold War Enigma: Object Scenario, 1985. Very chuff

Cold War Enigma: Object Scenario, 1985. Very chuffed to have this sculpture included in '90 years Treasures from the Vault' @magamnsw. The work is an allegory and references my formative years growing up in a so called "nuclear family" on the shores of Powderhulk Bay on Sydney's Middle Harbour in the 1950s and sixties and the Coney Island atmosphere that prevailed around Manly Warf up until the early 1970s when a storm took out the marvelous swimming pool with its wooden walkway and floats with water wheels, diving boards and slippery dips. Before Manly Warf was redeveloped, a carriage from the ghost train on the amusement pier would emerge out over the water on a little curved rail. This provided a spectacle of astonishment to passengers arriving on the Manly Ferry. Other references in the 'orchestra pit' or 'mouth' of the sculpture are a Chinese musician and an Oceanic being. The work was made during a residency at Queensland Film and Drama Centre at Griffith University in 1985. Further content about the "object scenarios" series is being added to my website, see link in bio. #contemporaryart #allegory #figurativesculpture @australianceramics #terracotta #manlywarf #coneyisland #middleharbour #powderhulkbay #nuclearfamily #coldwar #objectscenario #coldwarenigma #ghosttrain #proscenium #stagesets #canoepaddles #aussiebattlers #figurine #manlyamusementpier #amusementpier #artistinresidence #Griffith University #Queenslandfilmanddramacentre #coastalstorm

Pitch, pond: poplars quiver, rained river. #paynes

Pitch, pond: poplars quiver, rained river. #paynescreek #medwayrivulet #wingecarribeeriver #Gundungurracountry #Dharawalcountry #alwayswasalwayswillbe. #julyrain

Rill vase, rainy weather, from the vaserium. Thank

Rill vase, rainy weather, from the vaserium. Thanks to @merran_esson for use of experimental studio space at @ceramicsatnas a few years back. Rill vase was installed in #waterobjectsechoes with work by #louiseboscacci @thecrossartprojects #vaserium #stilllife @australianceramics #terracotta #paintedceramic #rill #rillvase #daffodills #portholetable

Formative tea cup and saucer c.1982 gum leaf and b

Formative tea cup and saucer c.1982 gum leaf and blossom pattern. Hand pinched and painted maiolica: tin glaze with on glaze decoration. An epiphany of sorts when my interest in hand modelled Japanese tea bowls, fascination with the illustrations of May Gibbs, and love of drawing Australian native plants combined with some lessons absorbed from French Rococo ceramics at the museum at St Cloud and others on an obsessive #Eurail tour of art museums, decorative art museums and gardens with painter, #Victor Rubin and fabulous UNESCO international artist passes for museum entry. #Australianceramics#decorativeart #studiopottery #topologicalinvestigations #contemporarycraftb #contempoararyart #Leuniginternationaldayofthecup #domesticware #rocococeramics #Maygibbs #Nutcote #Japaneseteabowl #stcloud #Wroightironportholetable #europeontendollarsaday #eurailpass #unescointernationalartistpass #cupandsaucer

Out looking #ground #stilllife #cutstone #carved

Out looking #ground #stilllife #cutstone #carvedbark #honestybox #Gundungurracountry #Dharawalcountry

Galley cup, Oyster catcher pattern. Hand modelled,

Galley cup, Oyster catcher pattern. Hand modelled, pinched cup in white earthenware painted with ceramic pigments, clear and maiolica glazes. A friend was living on her lobster trawler for a while. One fine day, she took a bunch of us chugging around Pittwater. Intrigued by the boat's tiny galley kitchen, with rails along the benchtop edges, I made a series of galley cups with wide bases for stability and robust handles to swing on hooks. They all had marine patterns. They were in a show we did called 'Boat' at #Articulateupstairs@toniwarburtonartist #boat @australianceramics #cup #galleycup #contemporaryceramics #contemporarycraft #decorativearts #earthenware #paintedpottery #maiolica @articulateprojectspace #performativeobject #sootyoystercatcher #literolzone #leuniginternationaldayofthecup

Here I go: dropping names like pebbles in a pond..

Here I go: dropping names like pebbles in a pond........... "Patrick Hartigan paints like an angel" Damien Minton told me Peter Fay said. Reviewer, Eloise Hastings writes: " nudging perhaps at Matisse." Yesterday, as I gazed entranced at Hartigan's pictures, I felt Tuckson esque gestures could also be perceived in the facture of ground and figure in these ethereal, viscerally weathered, paintings. #PatrickHartigan @EloiseHastings @the_reviewboard @thecommercial #PeterFay @damienminton #TonyTuckson #facture #contemporarypainting #figureground #groundandfigure

Yellows #Dharawalcountry #Gundungurracountry #mor

Yellows #Dharawalcountry #Gundungurracountry #mortonfire #alwayswasalwayswillbe

From the vaserium, classic celadon vase by Trisha

From the vaserium, classic celadon vase by Trisha Dean on wrought iron and glass porthole table made by my father, Peter Warburton. #vaserium @australianceramics #yellowandmagenta #celadon #wheelthrownpottery #studiopottery #contemporarycraft #stilllife #cutflowers @trishadeantravels #vignette #portholetable #wroughtirontable

From the vaserium: mould blown glass beaker vase c

From the vaserium: mould blown glass beaker vase c.2000. with sprigs of Nandina domestica, (sacred bamboo). #stillife #vaserium #mouldblownglass #beakervase #studioglass #contemporarycraft #prunings #scahotshop #freshwater #interior

Scorched moss, shattered bark, charcoal cone, ever

Scorched moss, shattered bark, charcoal cone, evergreen leaves fallen brown, water worn stone, ancient patterns shelter, Isopogons shimmer. #mortonnationalpark #Gundungurracountry #Dharawalcountry #alwayswasalwayswillbe #mortonfire #ancientpathways #regeneration

Alone in the classroom with sewing machine and thr

Alone in the classroom with sewing machine and three quarter toile. Brush and sepia ink on paper. A Victorian ball gown, a study in black, was the project that costume designer and teacher, Fiona Holley set for her students during lockdown. Holley says that the constraint of monochrome black challenges her students to explore the detail in fabrics, textures, trims and finishes for bustle, corset, chemise, pantaloons, petticoat and gown. During lockdown, the production of Fiona Holley's demonstration toile was filmed for her students. #FionaHolley #lockdowntextiles
#lockdownstories #costumedesign #monochrome #victorianballgown #toile #costumedesigner #worksonpaper #brushandink #sepiaink #contemporaryart #artistsvisualnotes #figurativedesign

Weekend Wingecarribee #Gundungurracountry #Dharawa

Weekend Wingecarribee #Gundungurracountry #Dharawalcountry #sandstoneshores #kakaiwater #skybluereflections#windonwater @sharawadgi_hall #walkingwithfriends

Cup or mug? I reckon it's both. A hybrid classic

Cup or mug? I reckon it's both. A hybrid classic shape made by 'Kitchen man' AKA @gerrywedd the endlessly inventive master of the blue and white graphic on clay, both epic and quotidian: why not iron the underdaks? Wheel thrown cream earthenware, hand painted, clear glaze. #cup #cupboard #studiopottery #paintedceramic #cobaltblue #kitschenman #leuniginternationaldayofthecup #ausrralianceramics #domesticware #laundry #ceramicdesign #contemporarycraft #utility #gerrywedd

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