Tableware
Black + White Range
The Black + White porcelain tableware range is handcrafted and each item is individually painted. The range is made so craft lovers can mix and match their own collection, and currently there is a small bowl and saucer. The range is being expanded but due to Covid-19 its production has been interrupted. I'm aiming to have the Black + White range available for purchase in the spring.
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Black + White tableware
Porcelain, black slip, hand painted
Recent exhibition
Curated by Sean Morris
Buried within the collections of the State Library of Queensland are two original photographs taken during a séance held in Brisbane on 24 October 1888. The photographs show an excellent example of independent slate-writing, where (purportedly) spirits of the dead communicate with the living by writing messages on a slate in the presence of a medium.
My work, Self reconciliation Series, draws inspiration from the slate-writing of Fred Evans and my own white history in and around the area I was born- particularly around pastoral and mining leases. It explores the 'voices of a white past' communicating the deceits and illusions of my own white history.
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Self reconciliation- Quairading Central Wheatbelt
Porcelain, black slip, gold lustre, decals
Photograph: Art Atelier Photography
Recent Artist-In-Residence
Tel Aviv, Israel
Artist-In-Residence at the Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Centre in Tel Aviv, Israel. Spending six weeks in Israel I traveled extensively from the borders of Lebanon and Syria to the Negev Desert collecting soils and clays, using them in my work to attain a palette of colour that reflects the richness and feeling of place and ancient lands of Israel.
The aim of the residency was to explore Israel as an ancient land (resonating with the historic Holy Lands) and my own connection to the Australian landscape (as a spiritual experience). The resulting work was presented in the solo exhibition, Country - ancient lands.
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Avi Amesbury
AiR studio space
Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel Aviv
NEWS
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18 January 2020
The Self reconciliation Series was exhibited in séance, curated by Sean Morris, and explored the 'voices of a white past' communicating the deceits and illusions of my own white history.
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1 November 2019
Thrilled to have the catalogue essay for the solo exhibition Country - ancient lands written by Peter Haynes featured in The Journal of Australian Ceramics.
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15 October 2019