Details
| First Name | Jackie |
| Last Name | Masters |
| Nickname | Jackie |
Social Media
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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. |
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 |
