Details
| First Name | Susan |
| Last Name | Lynch |
| Nickname | susse |
My Ceramics
| In the studio I like to do | Handbuilding, Throwing on the Wheel, Sculpting |
| Pottery Wheel | Electric and kick |
| Clay body | Earthenware, Stoneware |
| Clay Brand | I dig my own clay |
| Kiln Type | Electric Kiln, Gas Kiln, Wood Fired Kiln, Pit firing |
| Kiln Atmosphere | Reduction Atmosphere, Oxidation Atmosphere |
| Temperature | cone 8-10 |
| Glaze | I do not use a lot of glazes, I experiment with terra sigilata, slips and texture |
| You can buy my work from | My studio in Curra, Queensland Australia |
About Me
| Introduction | I am a visual artist. I enjoy both clay and paint mediums. I live in Curra, a small country town North of Gympie Queensland. I am interested in digging my own clay and using natural pigments where possible.
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| What I Love about Ceramics | I will need to think more about this… |
| How I started with ceramics | I began in Clay because my Tafe teachers were Ceramic artist and lecturer Rowley Drysdale from Cooroy and Peter Harris from Gympie in Queensland. I have been very fortunate to have inspirational teachers. I attended University and worked under Ceramic Lecturer Alexis Tacey and my Honours Supervisor Dan Elborne. All of my teachers have taught me something unique from their own practices that I still carry with me in my own studio work today. It was Rowley Drysdale that suggested I explore digging for my own local clay to use and I have done so in my practice ever since. |
| What inspires me | How it is I came to be Australian, identity and the heaviness of Australia’s colonial past. |
| What I'm working on at the moment | I am always working with themes of identity in my work and at the moment I am thinking about my grandfather coming to Australia from England through the child immigration scheme and how he grew up on a farm school then entered sideshow alley on the showground circuit. I am interested in games and the history of them. I have inherited a set of sideshow alley dice from my grandfather and I am really interested in the story behind them (as yet to be uncovered) and then the similarity between games and life. |
| My Artist Statement | To be updated later…its late ZZZZZ |
| My CV | I will update tomorrow its late ZZZZZ |
