| 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…
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| 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.
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| What inspires me |
How it is I came to be Australian, identity and the heaviness of Australia’s colonial past.
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| 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.
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| My Artist Statement |
To be updated later…its late ZZZZZ
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| My CV |
I will update tomorrow its late ZZZZZ
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