Enquiries towards the purchase of the work below may be directed to ceramics@ceramicart.com.au.
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| Jar, felspar glaze h 460/18 | Jar, ash over felspar glaze h 570/23 | Round jar, ash glaze h 420/17 | Dark jar, flyash glaze h 540/21 | Round jar, ash glaze | Bottle with lugs h 600/24 |
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| Tall bottle h 570/22 | Jar, felspar/lithium glaze h 410/16 | Cylinder with lugs h 470/19 | Bottle, Shino style glaze h 270/11 | Bottle, shino style glaze h270/11 | Bottle, shino style glaze h 310/12 |
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| Bottle, ash over felspar glaze h 320/9 | Bottle, ash over felspar glaze h 230/9 | Bottle, ash over felspar glaze h 230/9 | Felspar glaze bottle h 230/9 | Dark bottle with ash runs h 260/10 | Bottle, salt glaze and ash h 260/10 |
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| Bottle, multi-fired h 150/6 | Bottle, flyash glaze h 180/7 | Dark Bottle, ember ash h 150/6 | Bottle with salt glaze and ash h150/6 | Small vase, salt glaze and ash h 130/5 | Rectangular bowl, felspar glaze 400x260 |
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| Bowl, felspar glaze d 330/13 | Tracking h 600/24 | Tap Dancer h 430 17 | Flower h 360/15 | Isometrics h 270/11 | Insect h300/12 |
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| Arch h 420/16 | Emissions h 600/24 | Explorer w 900/36 |
BORN : Cooma, N.S.W. 1944
EDUCATION: Ph.D., University of N.S.W., 1970; B.Sc. (Hons 1) UNSW 1965
EMPLOYMENT
1985 - Monash University, Gippsland Centre for Art and Design: Senior Lecturer
1980-84 Canberra School of Art, Part-time Lecturer, Ceramics Workshop
1970-80 Research in Archaeology (1975-1980 at ANU Institute of Advanced Studies;
1970-1975 associated with Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC USA).
AWARDS Winner: Distinction Award, International Saltglaze Competition, Koblenz,
Germany,
2002; Society for American Archaeology Award 2000 (for contributions to ceramic
studies); Pioneer Potters’ Award 1997; Whitefriars Award 1995; Diamond
Valley
Award 1992; Gold Coast Award 1989; Pottery in Australia Award 1985;
Ampol Arts Award 1965
EXHIBITIONS : SOLO
2002 Gallows Gallery, Perth
1997 Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Utah USA
1997 Ceramic Art Gallery, Sydney
1995 Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne
1991 Artworks (Victoria). Collaboration with painter Rod Forbes
1991 Switchback Gallery, Monash University (collaboration with Rod Forbes)
1989 Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, Victoria
1979 Potter’s Place, Canberra, ACT
1978 Potter’s Place, Canberra, ACT
1970 Berrima Galleries, NSW
EXHIBITIONS: GROUP, INTERNATIONAL
1999 Different Stokes (International Woodfire), University of Iowa Museum of
Art
1999 Pyrochromatics. Wellington B Gray Gallery, ECU, Greenville N.Carolina USA
1999 Four Australian Woodfire artists. New Wagner Gallery, SIUE, Illinois USA
1999 Creative Australia (Craft Australia)Azecra Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1997 Rosenthal Studio-Haus Galerie, Hamburg, Germany (Salt-glazed porcelain).
1996 Aoyama Green Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (Australia no Magikama Sakuhin).
1996 Meitetsu Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
1996 Delinquent Angel (Australian Contemporary Ceramics) : Itami Craft Centre,
Osaka,
Japan, and Takashimaya Gallery, Singapore
1996 Fletcher Challenge Award, Auckland, New Zealand (selected).
1995 Delinquent Angel (Australian Contemporary Ceramics), Faenza, Italy
1994 Minokamo Municipal Centre, Gifu, Japan
1993 Salzbrand (International Saltglaze), Koblenz, Germany
1991 Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Tennessee, USA, Faculty Exhibition
1989 Salzbrand (International Saltglaze), Koblenz, Germany
EXHIBITIONS: GROUP, AUSTRALIA (SELECTED)
2001 Bowled Over (National Bowl exhibition) Fremantle Arts Centre WA
2000 Ceramics Purchase exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of N. Territory
2000 Colonial to Contemporary (Decorative Arts), Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
1999 A Generous Vessel. Centre for Contemporary Craft, Customs House, Sydney
1998: Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne: The Woodfire Aesthetic
1997 Shepparton Art Gallery: Sydney Myer Fund International Ceramics Award.
1996 Strathnairn Gallery, ACT: Australian Woodfire Survey
1996 Moore’s Building, Fremantle WA: National Bowl Show
1996 Manly Art Gallery, NSW Standing Sentinel (Potter’s Society of Australia).
1996 Shepparton Art Gallery: Sydney Myer Fund Award , invitational
1996 Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne: Director’s Choice
1995 Fusions Gallery, Brisbane: Woodfire Survey Exhibition
1995 Threeways Gallery, Gulgong, NSW: Woodfire, Significant Pieces
1995 Stables Gallery, Mudgee: Claysculpt
1994 National Gallery of Victoria, Rigg Craft Award (Invitational)
1994 Craft Victoria : Crucible, Materials of Invention
1994 Door Gallery, Fremantle, WA: National Bowl Show
1993 Ceramic Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW: Woodfire, a Celebration
1992 Woodfire ‘92 Survey, Southern Cross University Lismore
1992 Jennings Award, Meat Market, Melbourne (Selected).
1991 Switchback Gallery, Monash University (with Chester Nealie and Jan Irvine).
1989 Woodfire ‘89 (Travelling exhibition to three NSW Galleries)
1989 Victor Mace Gallery, Brisbane: Four Woodfirers
1989 Potter’s Gallery, Brisbane : Woodfire Australia
1988 Manly Art Gallery, NSW Fire and Earth, Contemporary Australian Ceramics
1987 Narek Gallery Canberra: The Woodfire Show
COLLECTIONS
Handwerkskammer Koblenz, Koblenz, Germany
Tajimi City Collection, Mino, Japan
Arrowmont Permanent Collection, Tennessee, USA
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah, USA
Powerhouse Museum, NSW Art Gallery of Western Australia Queensland Art Gallery
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Shepparton Art Gallery
Orange Regional Gallery Ipswich Regional Gallery
Latrobe Regional Gallery Diamond Valley Collection
Griffith University Collection Curtin University Collection
Queensland University of Technology Collection Southern Cross University Collection
Monash University (Jan Feder Collection) Whitefriars College Collection
Private Collections in USA, Japan, England, Israel, Germany and in Australia including Greg Daly and Margaret Tuckson collections.
WRITING
Author of two books on archaeological ceramics and some 50 articles in ‘Ceramics
Art and Perception’, ‘Pottery in Australia’ and numerous other
journals; also numerous exhibition reviews, book reviews and conference papers.
Editorial Advisor, Ceramics Art and Perception.
WORKSHOPS AND PUBLIC LECTURES
In Australia, USA, Norway, Italy, Papua New Guinea and Israel. Recent include:
Firing the Tamba Kiln ,Cooroy, Qld (one week); Woodfire, SIU, Illinois USA;
Pyrochromatics, ECU, North Carolina USA (one week); Aesthetics of Woodfire,
USU, Logan, Utah, USA (one week); Kiln Master, Fire-up Gulgong, (one-week);
and Anagama Firing, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Tennessee, USA (two-week
workshop). Recently also Introduction to International panels, and several papers
including Woodfire in Australia at Different Stokes International Woodfire Conference,
University of Iowa, USA; and Australian National Ceramics Conference Bendigo
2003.
BIOGRAPHY
Represented in Masters of Their Craft; Woodfired Ceramics; Contemporary Ceramic
Art in Australia and New Zealand; Collector’s Guide to Modern Australian
Ceramics; and Saltglaze Ceramics, An International Perspective. Recent biography
and reviews in Ceramics Monthly (USA), Ceramics Art and Perception, Object and
Craft Victoria. Also exhibition catalogues including Delinquent Angel, Museo
Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza and Different Stokes (international woodfire
survey exhibition), Iowa USA.