Procelain Conference – register early to save $$

by | Dec 2, 2009 | Uncategorized

PORCELAIN
February 5-7, 2010
San Diego, California
Hosted by Clay Artists of San Diego

This conference brings together five of North America’s most adept and experienced porcelain potters. With an average of 42 years of working with porcelain between them, this porcelain dream team will share their expert tips and techniques for working with this beautiful yet challenging ceramic material.
SAVE $75 UNTIL DECEMBER 13, 2009
 Featured Artist: Elaine Coleman, Tom Coleman, Mary Cuzick,
Meira Mathison and Tom Turner

For more information and to register visit: http://ceramicartsdaily.org/education/porcelain/
What you will learn:

Slip decoration
Throwing and altering on the wheel with porcelain clay
Understanding the character and handling of different types of porcelain clay
Carving techniques and how it relates to Coleman clay
The use of intricate patterns and designs through a combination of carving, slip trailing and glaze application
Use of multiple layers of glaze in relation to delicate carvings
Altering techniques that include cutting, scoring, stamping and the manipulation of the form
Use of clay sprigs, stamps and thick slip
Discussion of glaze technique including mid-fire electric glazes that look similar to high-fire reduction glazes
Develop surfaces using faceting, paddling, and fluting

Artist of the Day – Rachelle Chinnery

by | Dec 1, 2009 | Uncategorized

Oh I’m just brimming with excitement, it’s going to be such a beautiful month here at musing with all of these amazing artists I’m going to share with you over the upcoming weeks. Thanks so much to everyone that’s sent in images and info so far, I couldn’t do it without you. There are still a few spots open so keep those entries coming!

To start it all off is the incredibly talented Rachelle Chinnery:


In her words:
I started out in Linguistics, went to Japan to teach for a year, gave up on Linguistics and stayed in Japan for four years. That was the beginning of the training with reluctant Japanese men and the end of my future career as an academic. I came back to Canada, went to Sheridan for a year, then Emily Carr for a year, and realized art school wasn’t really for me either. It’s been a bit of a solo road in the studio since 1995.

Three years ago my husband and I moved to Hornby Island in BC, and just this month my studio is nearing the end of completion. I have been making pots in a trailer for 3 years. Nobody deserves a new studio like I deserve a new studio.

For the past ten years or so I’ve been focusing on a line of carved porcelain. I use a mid-fire body that is translucent where thin, and it rings just like a high-fire porcelain body. In 2007 my work was selected for the British Columbia Achievement Award for Creativity. I was the first ceramist to be a recipient of the award. This bottle and cups set was accepted into the Croatian Post-Modern Ceramics Exhibition in Varazdin in 2009. A lidded jar of mine made it to the finals in the NICHE awards in 2009, and this year this same bottle and cup set also made it to the NICHE finalists list. I was unable to fly to Philadelphia in 2009, so I wasn’t able to attend the awards ceremony – you have to be there to win anything. But this year – I’m going for gold…. (local Olympic rhetoric creeping in there ).

I hope to develop a new body of work in my shiny new studio and return to making larger sculptural pieces – too challenging to make in the trailer.

rachellechinnery.blogspot.com
www.rachellechinnery.ca

The aftermath….

by | Nov 30, 2009 | Uncategorized

Weekend sale finally over and today I’m busy getting the leftover inventory sorted and photographed so that it’s ready to go up on Etsy asap…still might be a while before that all comes together, but oh well…


Oh yeah and don’t forget that ARTIST OF THE DAY month goes live tomorrow, so get your thinking caps on and start commenting if you want in on the giveaway!

Indigo Kingdom by Vipoo Srivilasa

by | Nov 27, 2009 | Uncategorized


A solo exhibition at Anna Pappas Gallery.
3-23 December 2009; Opening Wednesday 2 December 6 pm.

Indigo Kingdom tells a theatrical story of the contemporary human impact upon coral reefs. Using a traditional Thai narrative of an imagined kingdom as a foundation from which to create his own personal kingdom, Srivilasa turns ceramic sculpture into a storytelling device – in this exhibition the installation becomes the reinterpretation of an ancient Thai temple plan.


In the same vein, he uses his work to write his own biography. To guide us through the play of references in this complex commentary, Srivilasa calls upon the help of his mermaid alter-ego. The mermaid, like the coral, is the canary in the mine, an indicator of imminent threat. In all, Indigo Kingdom is as much high-camp globalist fantasy as it is a sober reminder of the environmental crisis of the present day.

Anna Pappas Gallery 2-4 Carlton Street Prahan 3181 Australia (03) 8598 9915
[email protected] / www.annapappasgallery.com