Archive of past issues
July 2008 Featured -  Print and Clay Symposium
The Clay and Print symposium was a 3 day event organised by Lia Tajcnar and hosted by The Australian National University Ceramics Department in June, 2008. Virginia Walsh attended the symposium and writes about her 'three day romp through a cornucopia of printmaking techniques". The exhibition," Clay and Print: the Collaborative Process", brings together work created in response to the symposium.
June 2008 Featured -  Janet DeBoos: Entrophy & other Considerations
The same concern - namely the performative nature of making and using - has characterised my work for the past twenty or so years.
June 2008 Featured -  Gus Clutterbuck: Stayin' Alive
In a society that is reliant on drugs and the professionals who prescribe them Stayin' Alive is a collection of ceramic sculptures and installations that comment on our relationships with the medical profession. Questions of reciprocal faith between doctor and patient go to the heart of medical ethics and are the subject of the ceramic works in Stayin' Alive
April 2008 Featured -  Cerartmix: judge's statement
"Ceramics is a term universally understood to describe any object or artefact made of fired clay (earth). However, if asked to define what art is, one would be hard-pressed to provide a singularly encompassing definition, particularly within a contemporary context." Ah Xian is the judge for the 2008 Sidney Myer Fund International Ceramics Award. Read his catalogue essay and view images of winning works.
March 2008 Featured -  A Russian wood fire potter and monk in the Australian bush
Sergei is a Russian wood fire potter and monk, living in the ruggedly beautiful south eastern corner of New South Wales. He lives and works in a small Orthodox Christian community of monks on the banks of the MacLaughlin River 45 km's from the nearest town.
February 2008 Featured -  Congratulations Janet Fieldhouse
Janet Fieldhouse has won the inaugural 2007 Indigenous Ceramic Art Award. The news was announced in December 2007 at the Shepparton Art Gallery. Janets winning work, Woven Armbands was described by judges as, "a delicate and beautiful translation of a traditional woven form into another medium which was inspirational, accomplished and inventive. The work operated as an installation of unexpected delicacy and precision."
December 2007 Featured - Regeneration: Margaret Carlin
Regeneration: research into the nature of place and belonging following the destruction of the local environment. Residing in one of the suburbs destroyed by the 2003 Canberra bushfires Margaret Carlin explores the notions of belonging and place. Through her experience of loss Carlin evolves from "responding to 'regeneration' as a direct interpretation of the aftermath of the fires on the physical landscape to a more philosophical response to how a person regenerates a personal or emotional sense of place or belonging following such an abrupt destruction of their environment." Carlin's visual response explores both 2 and 3 dimensional works with the use of Keraflex porcelain and large scale ceramic pieces.
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