Details

First Name

Jackie

Last Name

Masters

Nickname

Jackie

Social Media

My Ceramics

In the studio I like to do

Throwing on the Wheel

Pottery Wheel

Shimpo and Venco

Clay body

Stoneware, Porcelain

Clay Brand

Australian Southern Ice Porcelain & various stoneware bodies

Kiln Type

Electric Kiln

Kiln Atmosphere

Oxidation Atmosphere

Temperature

1280-1300 (to tip cone 11)

Glaze

I use glazes porcelain and stoneware glazes that I develop.

You can buy my work from

various galleries & my online Etsy shop.

http://www.etsy.com/au/shop/JackieMastersPottery

About Me

Introduction

My name is Jackie Masters, I am a ceramic artist living in Perth Western Australia.  Porcelain is my favourite clay to throw with, but I also enjoy playing with wild clay and stoneware clays, as they offer interesting and different effects with my glazes.

What I Love about Ceramics

I love the challenges of throwing clay and pushing it to its limits.  The thrill of creating new textural volcanic glazes is another exciting part of clay that I enjoy.

How I started with ceramics

I started with clay in my early 20’s at an evening class at Perth Studio Potters.  After two terms of attending 1 night per week, my teacher indicated that I had a natural ability and that I should ‘go pot’.  It has been the most tremendously engaging journey and I now teach at the very place where it all started for me.  It gives me such pleasure to share my love of clay.

What inspires me

I know it is cliche but the environment.  The colours of our Australian bushland and flowers.  The sweeping sands of our beaches that stretch into the incredible oceans.

What I'm working on at the moment

I am working on producing forms and glazes that capture the colours and textures of our Australian bushland, oceans and the rich red of our outback.

My Artist Statement

The incredible Australian landscape and its enchanting colours provide infinite inspiration for my handmade glazes; from the vivid blues of the ocean, the greens of our bushland to the vibrant reds of the ore that stains much of our vast country.

 

Glaze experimentation is my passion and my work references just some of the amazing colours that this incredible land has to offer.

 

Textures, in the form of bespoke volcanic/crater glazes, adorn the outside of my hand-thrown pieces that I make from Australian Porcelain and high iron stoneware clays.

 

Australian raw earth minerals and oxides are incorporated into both clay and glazes, capturing not only the spirit of the land, but the true essence of Australia, each piece a unique work of art.

My CV

Awards:           Overall Winner/Selectors Choice Award – June 2021 – by Katherine Stafford Gallows Gallery

Highly Commended Award 22 April 2021 – by Colin Walker Dir. Art Gallery WA

Technical Award November 2018 – Burt Street Gallery Selective Exhibition

Highly Commended Award 2013 CAAWA exhibition – by Prof. Ted Snell AM CitWA

 

 

Committee:     2018 – to date Secretary of Perth Studio Potters Committee

2012 -2015 Ceramic Arts Association of WA – Committee + Membership Secretary

 

Positions:        Teaching Pottery/Ceramics at Perth Studio Potters 2017 to date 

                          Teaching Pottery/Ceramics at Studio P Leederville 2021 to date

 

 

Publications:   The Journal of Australian Ceramics 6-page article  Vol 57 No.3  November 2018

                          Pro-Hart Outback Prize Award exhibition finalist – catalogue 2019

The Journal of Australian Ceramics photos of work Vol 59 No 3, November 2020

The Journal of Australian Ceramics – featured in collaboration of Wild Clay article

Vol 59 No 3, November 2020

 

Most Notable/Recent Exhibitions/Etc.

2021   Burt Street Gallery Selective Exhibition overall winner/Selectors choice award

2021   CAAWA Selective Exhibition – Highly Commended Award

2019   Pro Hart Outback Art Prize Finalist – Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery

CAAWA Selective Exhibition – Heathcote

            Burt Street Gallery Exhibitions

2018   The Journal of Australian Ceramics Article

Burt Street Gallery Selective Exhibition (Technical Award)

            Botanica Exhibition 6-22 April 2018 Moores Building Fremantle (3 ceramic artists)

2017   CAAWA Selective Exhibition – Heathcote

2016   Pigments of your Imagination Exhibition

2015   Canberra Ceramics Triennial – Western Extremities Exhibition

            CAAWA Selective Exhibition – Heathcote

2014   Army Art – Leeuwin Barracks

            Pigments of your Imagination Exhibition

            CAAWA Exhibition Online

            Art at Perth College Exhibition

2013   Bunbury Catholic College Art Extraordinaire

            CAAWA Selective Exhibition – Heathcote (received Highly Commended Award)

2012   Perth College Christmas Art exhibition

            CAAWA Central Tafe selected artists exhibition

 

Suppliers

            Aspects Gallery Kings Park    Burt Street Gallery Cottesloe   Gallows Gallery Mosman Park

 

Professional Affiliations

            The Australian Ceramics Association

            Ceramics Arts Association of Western Australia

            Perth Studio Potters      

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