Exhibition
Regional Spotlight
Curated by the Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, the exhibition opens on 21 September 2024 and runs to 17 November 2024. The exhibition brings together painting drawing, photography and sculptural works from artists living and working in the Wide Bay-Burnett. Curator Llewellyn Millhouse visited my studio in May which was inspiring, and a wonderful opportunity to talk about the work, my creative process and current projects.
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I've created handmade porcelain objects using wild clay dug from various locations. The raw materials from the earth are incorporated into each piece, forming a connection between the human (hand-made) and nature. Porcelain, perceived as fragile, is used to highlight nature's fragility, but also it’s underlying, and often unrecognised, strength and longevity. Each piece uses the wild clay to add colour to the work and to reinforce our innate connection to place.
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Title: Evolution. Image credit: Art Atelier Photography.
Title: Adapting. Image credit: Art Atelier Photography.
International Academy of Ceramics (IAC)
16 - 21 September 2024
I am attending the 51st Congress and General Assembly of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC) in Portugal in September. During the five-day congress programme I will attend lectures, exhibitions, artist presentations, networking events, visits to artists’ studios, ateliers and cultural institutions, a UNESCO partner event, as well as AIC Council and the General Assembly meetings.
I’ve been invited to present my research to delegates in the ‘Breakout Session’ on The Self Reconciliation Project. My presentation explores how art and ceramics can contribute to developing political narratives that examine the legacies of colonisation.
As an AIC member, I will be participating in the exhibition, Azulejo, at the Caldas da Rainha Cultural and Congress Centre. The overview of the exhibition will be presented by Alexandre Pais, Director of the National Tile Museum of Lisbon, who will also give the keynote address at the Congress.
Keep an eye out - on my return I will be hosting an artist talk and a workshop in my studio to share my experiences and networks, and to talk about developing pathways into professional practice.
The project is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
Black + White Porcelain Tableware
Each unique piece of the mix and match Black + White Porcelain Tableware collection is designed, made and individually decorated to be purchased as single special pieces or in sets so craft lovers can add to their collection over time.
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Outlets: Artisan (Qld), Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery (Qld),
and Murray Art Museum Albury (NSW)
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Read: Echoes of Natural Forms
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Black + White Porcelain Tableware
Porcelain, black slip, sgriffito
NEWS
March 2024
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Hervey Bay Regional Gallery and Fraser Coast Regional Council have announced the artists selected for the inaugural Regional Spotlight exhibition, September 2024.
I'm pleased to have been selected, being showcased alongside Vanessa Allegra, Adam Anderson, Susan Zela Bissett, Kerri Dixon, Seinileva Huakau, Julie McGillivray, Monique Mennie, Dona Norwood and Jacinta Padgett.
November 2023
The Self Reconciliation Project (May and June 2023)
As artist-in-residence at Central Craft in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) I continued to explore the notion of self reconciliation.
The project investigated connection to 'place' through the Australian landscape (an external lens) which aims to bring together these two lines of perspectives - family history and connection to 'place'.
June 2022