I love a little bit of public intervention, taking ceramics to the streets!

Today’s work is both charming and thought provoking and brought to you by Dawn Vachon who is a current resident of Melbourne. It’s a mini raw ladder, one of the many she’s placed around the city. Anyone out there in Melbourne stumbled across one themselves?

A bit about Dawn in her words:
I’m a recent graduate from Emily Carr, currently spending some time in Melbourne.
I love and miss glazing, especially using wax resist.
Favourite ice cream? probably tiramisu or nutella
Music i’m listening to these days: Bon Iver, Neil Young, Band of Horses, Black Mountain

Check out more of Dawn’s work and adventures at:

www.conepack.ca Which is a blog shared by Dawn and the artist Claire Henry documenting work, inspiration and some fum events.

or got to her personal blog for more about Dawn and her work (the spinning pots are gorgeous!)

It’s amazing how the internet allows you to meet people. I’ve meet so many fantastic artists thanks to this blog and my other websites that it truly makes all the time I put into these practices worth every minute! I met today’s artist through etsy after seeing some of his fantastic sculptural and functional based works in his online shop.

Here’s his blurb about his work, life and ice cream flavors (funny how many of you answered my questions literally, resulting in me craving ice cream everytime I got an email!!!)

“My work is about my curiousity for the cosmos surrounding us and the infinite worlds that lie beyond the stars. I’m interested in how our knowledge and curiosity of space has influenced cultures throughout time.
As for the color of the sky in my area… currently blue.
Favorite ice cream is any kind with bananas in it.
My favorite glaze colors are probably light blues and greens.

Check out more about Ben and his fantastic work at his website and/or etsy shop.

Judy is another of the wonderful artists I met while in Red Deer (oh what a time I had there!) These images are of some recent work she started last year. She says “I have been doing all sorts of things related to genetically modified food and plants. These small coloured clay flowers (3-5 cm) are inspired by Asian lilies, but are “modified” with thin laminations of geometric millifiori. I grow some real lilies in my rock garden here in the Alberta foothills, but bears do come out the woods to nibble on them – a different kind of modification!”

Please check out more of her work at her website Water Valley Studios.