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Huang Yu Chun

Huang Yu Chun

by | 26, May, 2016 | Past Resident

Huang Yu Chun

Self Directed.

Resident during 2016. 

Yu Chun, a ceramic artist from Taipei, Taiwan, represents the new wave of young ceramic artists gaining prominence in Asia and beyond. In 2006 she began her career working as an assistant with a master potter in Yingge. In 2015 Yu Chun graduated from the National Taiwan University of Art majoring in Crafts and Design.

Corinne Beardsley

Corinne Beardsley

by | 12, Oct, 2015 | Past Resident

Corinne Beardsley

Professional.

Resident during 2015. 
Cori’s approach to making is intuitive, gestural, and experimental as the search inspires her creations. During a two-day Master class, Texture and Technique, she introduced the nine participants to options for armature construction and discussed paper clay technical resources. Cori demonstrated techniques to make textures and marks and gave insight as to how the artist thinks about different clay processes. Using an array of textures and forms, students created their own sculptural forms. An experienced teacher, Corinne provided step-by-step worksheets and enhanced our reputation for presenting professional and informative education experiences. During the residency Cori presented an artist talk alongside SA ceramic artist Gerry Wedd, visiting Canberra at the time, at which they discussed, life, influences, techniques and creative directions.
Work produced during Corinne’s residency was exhibited in the gallery in January/February 2016.
Richilde Flavell

Richilde Flavell

by | 28, Jul, 2015 | Past Resident

Richilde Flavell

EASS.

Resident during 2015. 

In 2014 Richilde’s practice ran along two parallel streams. In one she developed a concept-driven installation that focused on visual communication of environmental issues while the other project was process orientated, developing functional ceramics and honing her making and glazing skills. In 2015 she worked on bringing these two streams together, continuing to focus on the exploration of social interaction and environmental issues, exploring ideas through material, form and surface experimentation.

Richilde gave an artist talk to Canberra Potters members reflecting on her residency and discussing possible future directions for her artistic practice.

Isabelle Mackay-Sim

Isabelle Mackay-Sim

by | 28, Jul, 2015 | Past Resident

Isabelle Mackay-Sim

EASS.

Resident during 2015. 
Isabelle used the residency time to work towards a group exhibition in the Nishi Gallery, making new bodies of work for the exhibition.
Isabelle’s final year ANU work had explored sexuality and the body through the strange beauty of botanical forms. In the new body of work that she was creating for the Nishi exhibition she continued this theme but added the complexity of an interactive approach: interlocking component pieces than could be assembled within the gallery space into strange and intriguing plant forms.
Juz Kitson

Juz Kitson

by | 12, Jun, 2015 | Past Resident

Juz Kitson

Professional.

Resident during 2015. 
Juz Kitson from NSW was invited by the Australian Ceramics Triennale organizers to present a master class at CPS during the Triennale in July. Taking advantage of this, we were able to include her in our residency program for a two-month period before the Triennale commenced.
Juz spends her time between Sydney and Jingdezhen, the latter a place known as the heart of porcelain production in China. She regularly visits Hill End in New South Wales and its surrounding bush areas to collect various roadkill and bones that inform the ceramic objects she creates in porcelain and into which she incorporates bones, fur, and various organic matter.
During her stay, Juz gave an artist talk that attracted over 50 attendees enthralled by her techniques and work. She then taught a three-day Master Class as part of the Triennale program. Sixteen people from all over Australia attended the Master Class. Her contemporary sculptural forms of fur and feathers were the catalyst to take participants out of their comfort zones and push them in new directions.
Michiko Takada

Michiko Takada

by | 23, Mar, 2015 | Past Resident

Michiko Takada

Professional.

Resident during 2015. 
Michiko Takada is a ceramic artist from Japan. Michiko graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design in 2003 with a Master’s Degree. Her interest lies in creating three-dimensional ‘space structures’, which she describes as the spaces that appear when clay threads are intertwined and then those spaces are themselves intertwined. She is fascinated with how spaces create interesting and beautiful structures.
Michiko creates hollow shapes by wrapping cotton thread dipped in slip around balloons. She also uses timber boards with nails around which she runs slipped cotton thread to mimic weaving; from these she creates item such as handbags, jumpers and draped cloth. The pieces are raw glazed with a clear glaze before firing. During firing the cotton thread burns away leaving the clay slip with thread marks. These create interesting warps and lines.
During her residency Michiko presented an artist talk and held a two-day Master Class during which she taught participants how to weave slip-soaked cotton string into everyday objects and ovate forms. Michiko’s exhibition in the gallery from the 7–24 May attracted strong interest.
A requirement of a professional residency is for the resident to donate a piece of their artwork to the CPS collection; Michiko donated one of her woven artworks.