My ceramic work, ‘The River’s Ancient Song’, stoneware ceramic with glaze, 43 x 23 x 19 cm, selected for the Clunes Ceramic Award 2022 been granted an Award for Excellence and purchased by the Art Gallery of Ballarat for their ceramic collection. The Prize is held from the 1st October to the 23rd of October 2022 at the Castlemain Art Museum, Victoria.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
"This hand build stoneware ceramic vessel with numerous glaze firings speaks of an inner language of the river. The river as a source of fertility with its cyclical nature of renewal and destruction. Referencing essential archaic vessel forms, with its function to hold liquid or water, the work represents the mystery and the contained vital force of the river. Abstracted calligraphic marks float and are fused within layers of glaze suggesting a musical score or script. These painterly calligraphic marks become an inferred language. It acknowledges our need to decipher, listen and understand the river in order to preserve its precious resources. It is the River’s ancient song."