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Australian Ceramics Open Studios 2022
12/11/2022 @ 10:00 am - 13/11/2022 @ 4:00 pm
The Open Studios are a welcome opportunity for the broader community to step inside a creative space, chat with a local artist and experience the simple pleasures of clay and the making process.
Free admission.
Canberra Potters are excited to welcome back Sylvie and Bruno coffee and poffertjes joining us on Sunday 13 November for the day too.
Participating Artists:
Canberra Potters: Canberra Potters is a not-for-profit community organisation, established in Canberra in 1975. Come and discover our two large teaching workshops, Members Workshop, kiln facilities, private studios and spacious gallery and retail shop.
As well as the organisation itself, we have a number of studio-holders and members (off-site) also opening their studios.
Studio Holders:
Ruth Ju-shih Li (Studio 3, Canberra Potters current Artist in Residence) is a Taiwanese-Australian artist whose works draw on her myriad of cultural and spiritual heritage. Her ephemeral practice presents actions of personal reflection, giving form to Li’s deeply personal meditations through fine porcelain and intricate raw clay installations. Speaking in the universal language of flowers, these chimerical microcosms of organic forms are autobiographical, yet mirror and extend onward to consider the fleeting and transitory nature of the human condition. Li draws inspiration from the language of dreams, myths and of utopia in order to examine cultural confluences as an inclusive language in to the spiritual. Li divides her time between her studio in Sydney, her birth city Taipei and her ancestral homeland of China - where her second studio is based in the porcelain city of Jingdezhen.
Maricelle Olivier (Studio 4) is a South African artist exploring her personal history and creating her own space of belonging through the medium of ceramics. The repetitive nature of Maricelle’s practice - the making and laying down of coils on one another, joining and smoothing sections before repeating - relates to the patterns that adorn the surfaces on her work. Unpacking her cultural identity and heritage, the vessels transform into embodiments to hold and reflect emotions. Although Maricelle immigrated fifteen years ago to Australia in 2007, a strong connection to her culture, language and country remains through her contemporary ceramic works.
Tanya McArthur (Studio 5) works primarily in ceramics, using stoneware and porcelain, and occasionally incorporates glass into her creations. She takes inspiration from the natural environment, always paying attention to curves, shapes and textures around her.
Sue Peachey (River’s Edge Ceramics, Studio 7) uses coloured porcelain and the Japanese ceramic technique of nerikomi to celebrate pattern, colour and tactility. New functional and ornamental work will be for sale, together with a second’s sale and a live demonstration of nerikomi. Look behind the scenes and see the sources of inspiration, experiments and the progression of work over time.
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