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June 2009: The year is nearing half way and the Australian Ceramic Triennale 09, Facing the Future looms closer by the moment. Ceramic exhibitions are taking over Sydney and New South Wales galleries to coincide with the conference, and they all look pretty amazing. A full list of the exhibitions are available on the Triennale website. This month Ceramics this months features White Heat at Manly Art Gallery & Museum curated by Dr Julie Bartholomew.
This month we also welcome Linday Oesterritter from Kentucky, USA who is current artist-in-resident at Strathnairn Arts Association in Canberra. Lindsay will be exhibiting at the Strathnairn Gallery in August and we give you a sneak preview her woodfire ceramics.
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- Featured schmeetured
- Must see exhibitions
- Other happenings
- Opportunities
- Workshops
- Off the bookshelf
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 CONFERENCE: 17 - 20 JULY 2009
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1. Featured schmeetured
 Lindsay Oesterritter - Woodfire
Lindsay Oesterritter is the artist-in-residence at Strathnairn Arts Association, visiting from Kentucky, USA. A young, vibrant woodfirer making strong, bold forms, and she will be holding a woodfire workshop in July. Lindsay is heading off to the Australian Ceramics Triennale in Sydney, so be sure to say hello.
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2. Must see exhibitions
 White Heat
Australian Ceramics Triennale 09 exhibitions are transforming Sydney. White Heat opened on Friday night. Transformative practices that move beyond the object of utility, often take risks that propel the maker and viewer into unfamiliar territory. The exhibition offers a space for discourses of social, political and cultural concern.
» ... all Exhibitions
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3. Other happenings
 Congratulations
Congratulations Ken Yonetani who is exhibiting this year at the Venice Biennale. Sydney-based curator Felicity Fenner will curate a group exhibition of early career artists. The exhibition entitled Once Removed, will present artists - Vernon Ah Kee, Ken Yonetani, and Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro - through a series of installations unified by themes of displacement, Indigenous and environmental issues.
 Craft Cubed
Craft Cubed is a new national event presented by Craft Victoria. This annual festival promotes experimental, skilled and ideas-based craft and design. It will provide a platform for conversation and exchange across all spectrums of the craft and design communities. A key feature of the event is the thematic linking of current craft trends among local, national and international practitioners.
 Hand designed in Australia
In Australia, ceramics is under siege. Since the boom of the 1970s, the number of courses available have rapidly declined. Fortunately, Janet DeBoos has been successful in adapting ceramics education … through her model of the 'distributed studio'.
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6. Off the bookshelf
The Distributed Studio was presented by Janet DeBoos at Verge: 11th National Ceramics Conference in Brisbane in July, 2006. Janet DeBoos was a key speaker and her presentation focused on arts education, and new models for survival in the twenty-first century. Janet's paper presented "a model for a kind of ceramic art practice that might mean ceramics as a discipline within the twenty first century art school survives. It is called the distributed studio approach, and it is as relevant for education in ceramics as it is for the individual practice itself".
As stated in her presentation, "This has been an aspiration of mine for many years, and first crystallised in one of those epiphany like moments in a late summer class when I was listening to a lecture for students on how to plan a studio. The 'perfect studio' described in this lecture had everything that was deemed to be desirable for the practising ceramic artist. I was flicking through a magazine at the time, one ear cocked to the lecture, and I came across a photograph of a group of aboriginal women sitting on the ground, making pots, seemingly (although I do acknowledge the capacity of magazine photos to lie) in the middle of the desert. It was so far removed from the place being described on that hot afternoon in Canberra, and yet the two places were directly linked. Suddenly it was perfectly clear. A studio is where you work. It could be anywhere, and be equipped in any way."
The full paper, The Distributed Studio, can be read on the Craft Australia website.
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