Opened 6pm Thursday 18 February 2021 by Roderick Bamford, Head of ANU School of Art and Design Ceramics Workshop.
The annual Emerging Artist Support Scheme (EASS) exhibition selects work from ANU School of Art & Design ceramics graduates from the previous graduating year. afire: EASS 2021 (postponed from 2020) will present a group exhibition featuring the work of 2019 graduates Henrietta Farrelly-Barnett (Bachelor of Visual Arts), Yangyang Yin (Master of Visual Arts (Advanced)) and Cathy Zhang (Bachelor of Visual Arts).
Farrelly-Barnett’s work interrogates the factors which lead to the unprecedented 2018-19 Murray-Darling fish kills. Using blue-and-white pottery and traditional throwing & decorating techniques as a lens through which to examine these factors, Farrelly-Barnett’s work extends as a comment on Australia’s colonial history and land management.
Yin’s work explores cultural, philosophical and aesthetic values behind the performance of classic Chinese Opera through abstract porcelain sculptures which are wheel-thrown and altered.
Zhang’s interactive body of work combines two parts: a series of ceramic objects made to represent internal organs, and an installation which asks the viewer to question the visual and natural connection between the person and their internals.
Opened 6pm Thursday 21 January 2021 by Joanne Searle, ceramic artist and educator.
Immerse is a multisensory exhibition by Erica Herbert, AbbeyJamieson and ChaylaUeckert-Smith. The exhibition encourages the audience to interact with and explore the works of the three artists with all of their senses. In a traditional exhibition space, visitors are asked not to touch the artworks, which can limit how the works are perceived and understood. Each work in this exhibition, either ceramic or textile, requires physical connection on behalf of the participant to be activated and fully experienced.
Jamieson invites visitors to sit and enjoy a cup of tea with her work Interconnect, asking visitors to take a moment to be mindful (details below). Herbert creates work centered around mental wellbeing and sensory exploration through her series Comfort Pods: a series of hand held textile objects designed with the intention for physical interaction. Ueckert-Smith explores sound capabilities of clay, and encourages participants to interact with her percussive clay instruments with curiosity.
This exhibition was postponed from 2020 due to Covid19
EXHIBITION EVENTS
Tea Sessions with Abbey Jamieson
Join artist Abbey Jamieson for a Tea Session where you can sit and enjoy a tea in one of her cups. There are four cups that can be used during these sessions which are from two ranges of Jamieson’s work.
Please note that due to social distancing requirements only four people can participate in each Tea Session and each cup can only be selected once per session.
Immerse in Concert with Chayla Ueckert-Smith
Join us for an afternoon of experimental new music for ceramic instruments vox de luto featuring local emerging composers.
Price: Free, but bookings essential.
Time and Date: 2pm – 4pm Saturday 13 February 2021
This concert is a collection of short pieces featuring compositions by Lynden Basset, Pip Gazard, Jaime Langner, Ethan McAlister, Miles McLaughlin, and Matt Page. Curated by Chayla Ueckert-Smith, the music aims to demonstrate the diversity of personal experience and how it effects our perception and interpretation of art and music. The multi-disciplinary combination of art and music promises an aurally and visually intriguing performance experience.
Hosted as a part of Immerse, a multisensory exhibition by Erica Herbert, Abbey Jamieson, and Chayla Ueckert-Smith, this concert is an extension of collaborative and combined spaces.
Opened 6.00pm Thursday 12 November 2020 by Rebecca Edwards, Sid and Fiona Myer Curator of Ceramics and Design, National Gallery of Australia. Awards judged by Moraig McKenna, Old Saint Lukes Studio.
About
Canberra Potters is proud to present its annual Members’ Exhibition featuring some of the best work created by its members during the last twelve months.
The exhibition presents the inexhaustible breadth of ceramic arts through works using combinations of different clays, making, decorating and firing techniques to create works that are unique in form, texture and colour. Demonstrating the trends in contemporary ceramics practice, this is Canberra’s major ceramic show of the year.
An award pool of over $2000 is donated by our generous sponsors, with the premier award of the exhibition being the $1000 Doug Alexander Memorial Award.
The Doug Alexander Memorial Award
Each year since 1990, Canberra Potters have given the Doug Alexander Award to an exceptional potter in our annual Members’ Exhibition. It is presented in celebration and honour of Doug Alexander who was the resident potter at Cuppacumbalong Arts and Craft Centre at Tharwa, from 1976 to 1981 – brought short by his untimely death.
Doug Alexander made a huge contribution to the development of functional ceramics in Australia and, when he moved to Canberra, Doug Alexander’s experience and knowledge gave a fillip to pottery in Canberra. This $1000 cash prize is proudly sponsored by Canberra Potters.
Opened 6.00pm Friday 16 October 2020 by Janet deBoos, Ceramic Artist and Honorary Senior Lecturer (ANU).
Floor talk 3.00pm Saturday 17 October 2020
Over the 10 years or so that Steve Roper has been working in clay, his work has revolved around the imagination, the subconscious, and expression. The face and head have featured prominently in this work. Roper’s more recent works reflect his interest in the raw expressive qualities of much art from Africa, the Pacific, South and Central America, with some earlier works influenced by cartoons and naïve art.
Roper uses handbuilding techniques to create his pieces, heavily working the surfaces by building up layers of slip, underglaze and found objects. He completes them with impressions and incising the surface of the clay.
This exhibition will run concurrently with Rob Linigen’s exhibition Lost and Found.
Opened 6.00pm Friday 16 October 2020 by Janet deBoos, Ceramic Artist and Honorary Senior Lecturer (ANU).
Floor talk 2.00pm Saturday 17 October 2020
Robert Linigen is a potter and teacher based in the Blue Mountains. After losing his home and studio to a bushfire in 2013, he salvaged some of the building debris and processed it into glaze materials and his work took on a new direction. Materials such as ash, sandstone, marble, glass, concrete, copper wiring and rust are all utilised in an attempt to create something positive from the experience.
In this exhibition, Linigen will exhibit an installation of 194 handmade cups, each one representing one of the homes lost in the fires and using these salvaged materials. “A cup is a vessel that holds and comforts, like a home nurturing its family”.
After moving to a new home and studio, he continues to work with materials with personal associations: using ash from pile burns of woody, introduced weeds cleared from the bush around his new home to make new glazes for current and future work.
This exhibition will run concurrently with Steve Roper’s exhibition Head to Head.
Canberra Potters is thrilled to host Australian Design Centre’s national touring exhibition Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft \ Prue Venables in 2020.
Opened 6.00pm Thursday 13 August 2020 by Lisa Cahill, CEO and Artistic Director, Australian Design Centre
Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft \ Prue Venables is an Australian Design Centre (ADC On Tour) national touring exhibition, presented with assistance from the Australian Government Visions of Australia Program. The Visions of Australia regional exhibition touring program supports audience access to Australian arts and cultural material, with particular focus on tours to regional and remote Australia.
This work so artfully combines stillness and a sense of risk, of fragility. Sometimes it is a single object — a pierced ladle with a precariously long stem, perhaps, or a scoop with an elegant, daring, ribbon-like handle, that surprises and then calms. Then there are those seemingly arbitrary couplings or slightly perverse groupings that quietly and insistently demand a shift in our perception. Indeed they all were once, in the making process, exceedingly fragile; needing, before and during both bisque and high temperature reduction firing, to be propped up or supported upside down and fired on porcelain trays or setters: carefully, patiently, slowly, surely, crafted. But now, strong, dense, confident, beautiful — to be used, to be held.
I hope you see these pots when the sun is out. They quicken with light, the pale objects are softly luminous and translucent, while the dark aubergines and blacks glow satiny rich, their rims reflecting.
Gwyn Hanssen Pigott
“The works in this exhibition explore the significance of everyday objects through multiple sequences of forms in porcelain, with additional elements in metal and wood. The forms are simple and elegant, with a minimal colour palette and create a distinctive visual language.”
Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft \ Prue Venables is an ADC ON TOUR national touring exhibition opening at fourteen locations across Australia from 2019 to 2022.
Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft \ Prue Venables was researched and developed under a Federal Government Visions of Australia research grant and is ADC’s major national touring exhibition for 2019–2022. The tour is also supported by the Visions of Australia program and Australia Council for the Arts.
Australian Design Centre is supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments. Australian Design Centre is assisted by the New South Wales Government through Create NSW, and the Australian government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Closing Event and Awards Presentation 2.30pm Saturday 1 August by Joanne Searle, CPS Board Member and Associate Ceramics Lecturer (ANU)
Canberra Potters’ annual Student-Teacher Exhibition is an opportunity to celebrate the skills and creativity of the many students who attend classes at Canberra Potters. Designed to give students a welcoming environment to publicly display their work, participation is open to all students – adults and children – who have attended classes at Canberra Potters in the previous 12 months.
Classes offered at Canberra Potters range from those suitable for beginners to experienced potters, and cover techniques such as handbuilding, wheelthrowing, decorating techniques, glazing and firing processes. Our strong, experienced team of teachers is invaluable in guiding students in their exploration of clay and creativity and we are fortunate to have a broad spectrum of teachers who are all excellent potters in their own right. Teachers’ work is exhibited alongside the student work.
The Chef and the Potter invites viewers to explore the playful, refined and unique tableware used by chefs in and around Canberra. It aims to provoke a deeper consideration of beautifully crafted vessels we use every day, exploring the continued reinvention of ceramic tableware by chefs and potters alike.
Featuring: Georgina Bryant (Linburn Handmade), Joey Burns (Sawpit Studios), Andres Caycedo (Moscoca), Richilde Flavell (Girl Nomad Ceramics), Chris Harford (Spinning Gum Pottery), and Annie Parnell (Ritual Ceramics).
Opened 6.00pm Thursday 5 March by Janet deBoos, Ceramic Artist and Honorary Senior Lecturer (ANU).
Potter Richilde Flavell, who provides ceramic tableware for five local eateries, has her artwork featured in Watson Art Centre’s The Chef and the Potter. Photo: Lean Timms. Canberra Weekly.
Artist Chris Harford and chef Johnon MacDonald collaborate on pieces for Kokomos, Sage and Akiba. Picture: Jamila Toderas. Canberra Times.
Distant Visions is a survey of visiting artists from the Canberra Potters’ Collection. 2020 marks the 45th anniversary of the Canberra Potters’ Society. Throughout this period, Canberra Potters has collected a number of works from visiting artists, workshop tutors and artists-in-residence from around the world. This exhibition presents work from over 30 artists, some of which has never been seen by the general public.
Opening: 6pm Wednesday 5 February by Ian Hodgson, former CPS President and Life Member.
Canberra Potters is proud to present its annual Members’ Exhibition featuring some of the best work created by its members during the last twelve months.
The exhibition presents the inexhaustible breadth of ceramic arts through works using combinations of different clays, making, decorating and firing techniques to create works that are unique in form, texture and colour.
Members compete for the premier award of the exhibition, the Doug Alexander Award, and thanks to our generous exhibition partners, a range of other awards will also be presented.
2019 Award Winners
Portraits taken by Andrew Sikorski, images of artworks taken by Katrina Leske.
There were nine awards issued this year:
Doug Alexander Award sponsored by Canberra Potters
Mahala Hill for Luna Petrification
Walker Ceramics Brian Privett Award for Surface Decoration sponsored by Walker Ceramics
Alaya Khan for Hyperbloom
Keane Ceramics Award for Handbuildingsponsored by Keane Ceramics
Daniel Leone for Miles and from Goodspeed Bicycles
Cesco Award for Wheelthrowing sponsored by Walker Ceramics
Richilde Flavell for halo light
Craft ACT Exhibition Award sponsored by Craft ACT
Abbey Jamieson for Interconnect
Clayworks Tertiary Student Award sponsored by Clayworks
Alicia Cox for Still Life 1
Tertiary Merit Award sponsored by The Australian Ceramics Association
Henrietta Farrelly-Barnett for Consume
The Australian Ceramics Association Merit Award
Marion Robinson for Adani Feeding Bowl
Gallery of Small Things Professional Development Award sponsored by Gallery of Small Things
Tanya MacArthur for Encounter
2019 People’s Choice Awardsponsored by The Curatoreum
