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Artist statement
I am primarily a vessel maker for utilitarian ceramics and am often looking for a way to contextualise an idea of form or texture into a vessel.
Having chosen clay as my medium I find the clay directs my work process. Utilising the particular clay’s characteristics or properties and exploring it’s limitations increasingly defines my work.
More recently I have been making large environmental sculptural work. The work has become a dialogue about landscape. Landscape becoming vessels, local landscape, devolving landscape from human influence.
Photo: Harold David
BIOGRAPHY
Education
1980-82 Ceramic Certificate and Post Certificate, National Art School, Sydney
1985 Apprentice to master Japanese potter, Uneo Norihide, Bizen Japan
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Standing Stones-Cudgegong Gallery, Gulgong NSW
2009 Scape – Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst NSW
2006 New Work – Freeland Gallery, Sydney
2005 Carved Out – All Hand Made Gallery, Bronte NSW
2003 Iced Earth – Planet Furniture, Sydney
2002 Innovative Ceramics – Mura Clay Gallery, Newtown
2001 Solo Exhibition – The Galley on Lurline, Katoomba Selected Group
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize – South Australian Museum, Adelaide
2018 Sculpture at Scenic World – Katoomba NSW
2017 The White Room – Stanley St Gallery, Darlinghurst, Sydney Gold Coast
2016 Gold Coast International Ceramic Award – Gold Coast QLD
2015 Common Differences, Mansfield Ceramic Gallery Sydney
2014 Gold Coast International Ceramic Award – Gold Coast QLD
2014 Clay – Utopia Arts, Sydney
2013 Making Ground – Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba NSW
2010 90th Birthday Show- Peter Pinson Gallery, Sydney
2007 Visual Tactile Conceptual – Freeland Gallery, Sydney
2006 Clay Statements – Brisbane Convention Centre, Brisbane
2006 Ceramics and Sculpture – Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Canberra
2005 Joy of The Noble Teacup – Belgium
2005 Dining in The Gallery – Cudgegong Gallery,Gulgong NSW
2005 Beyond Earth – Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney
2003 Future Function – Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney
2002 Ceramic Connections: At the Table –Western Sydney, Penrith Regional Gallery
2001 Is the Dinner Party Dead? – WA School of Art, Perth
2000 Ceramics: The Australian Context – Campbelltown Regional Gallery
COLLECTIONS
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, NSW
PUBLICATIONS
2010 The Journal of Australian Ceramics- 49/3, pp45-47, ‘Standing Stones’
2008 Slab-built Ceramics, pp100, Coll Minogue – Crowood Press
2007 Artists Observed – Carole Hampshire, UNSW Press
2005 The Journal of Australian Ceramics – 44/1, pp74 – 75, ‘essence of place The Iced Earth Series’
2004 The Journal of Australian Ceramics – 43/3, pp44 – 52, ‘beyond earth exploring the plastic limits of clay’ – Barbara Campbell Allen
2004 Ceramics Art and Perception – 57, pp6 – 11, ‘Teabowls Objects for Contemplation’ – Christopher Tappere
2003 Australian Gourmet Traveller- Front Cover Image
2001 Pottery in Australia – 40 [1], pp6 and 59, ‘National Showcase’, ‘Glaze on Glaze’ – article
COMMISSIONS
2016 MVrock, large environmental sculpture Gulgong NSW
2013 Escarpment Rocks, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba NSW. (Public Works Contract)
2011 Becasse Restaurant Sydney – Tableware
2009-10 Sake Restaurants Sydney and Brisbane – Tableware
2009 Dumfries, Blackheath – Large Environmental Ceramic Sculptures, Corridor Series
2008-11 Tetsuyas – Tableware for restaurant
2003-11 Rockpool, Spice Temple, Rockpool Bar and Grill – Latte ,Espresso Cups and Saucers for Vittoria Coffee
2007-8 Delicado Foods- Tableware for restaurant
2005-11 University of Western Sydney – Corporate gifts
