My ceramic, 'Fusion, River Icon', stoneware ceramic with glaze, 37 x 33 x 31 cm, 2023, has been slected for the 2024 Biennale North Queensland Ceramic Award. It will be exhibited at the Perc Tucker Regional Art Gallery, Townsville along with other finlaists, from the 18th of October 2024 to the 16th of February 2025.
"This hand-built ceramic vessel, a container and holder of liquid, echoes forms of antiquity. Using the ancient coiling technique with a layered surface it speaks of an archetypal symbol—the river. The liquidity of poured glaze combined with a painterly approach to glaze application is fused with iron oxide within the stoneware clay. Layers of glaze and slips applied to the surface are combined with an unorthodox approach to multiple firings, becoming a fusion of glaze, clay, and calligraphic marks, an inferred language or script. The work explores the river as subject, symbol and metaphor, acknowledging the need to understand and decipher in order to preserve the precious resource of water"
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