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art trifecta Southern Highlands- it’s late not

art trifecta Southern Highlands-
it’s late notice, I know, but I would still like to let you know about my personal ‘art trifecta’ situation this coming weekend in the Southern Highlands NSW.

1. You are invited to visit my AgitPot 0pen ceramic studio this Sat 23, and Sun 24th November with an exhibition of ceramics by Elizabeth Statis- Rowe and me in Sharawadgi Hall across the garden from my open AgitPot studio where you can see work in progress, even try out some clay.
We will have ceramics for sale
Open from 10 am to 4pm both days
See link in bio for map with addtess and other open studios in the Southern Highlands and Illawarra. (images2-5)

2 this will be the last weekend to see my "Siren song" drawings and 'siren song' ceramic multiple, included in Voyager, a fabulous group exhibition by Artists of the Round Yard Inc, an artists’ collective that I am a member of, based at Retford Park, Bowral a property of the National Trust NSW.https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/event/voyager-by-the-artists-of-the-round-yard/
art almanac whats on (also in print edition out now
https://www.art-almanac.com.au/whats-on/nsw/ (images 6-9)

3. This will be the second last weekend to see my 'tablescape' of ceramic genres in 'from a studio garden' with painters, Ruth Waller and Leah Bullen at SHAC gallery in Robertson (last day Sunday 1st December.) (images 10-12)

Retford Park and SHAC galleries are open Thurs to Sun from 10 am - 4pm.

Whatever you do, wherever you go, have a great weekend!
#gundungurracountry
@australianceramics
#contemporaryceramics
#tablescape
#artcollective
#ACOS2024
#arttrifecta

For @h_ollymacdonald and that Marrickville open st

For @h_ollymacdonald and that Marrickville open studio memory,
my favourite cookbook, actually bought second hand from a street stall in Livingston Rd.
Looking forward to this national TACA Open Ceramic Studio weekend and thought I'd better share the recipe as i may not have time to bake Madeleine's for AgitPot open studio at Sutton Forest this Sat 23 Sun 24 Nov 10 am 4pm both days.
#gundungurracountry
#acos2024
#AgitPotstudio
#madeleines

Sorting the garniture. It's wonderful to be partic

Sorting the garniture. It's wonderful to be participating in the National Ceramics Open Studios this weekend. 23, 24th November. Elizabeth Rowe and I have put together a mini exhibition of our work in Sharawadgi Hall. This will be the first time this space has been open to visitors since it ceased being the Sutton Forest Public school in 2014.
I will also be opening my rather more chaotic AgitPot studio across the garden. You might like to model a small object... or drop in for a cuppa and a chat about things ceramic with Elizabeth and me.
We will also have some ceramics for sale and we are open 10am-4pm Saturday and Sunday.
AgitPot studio is number 7 on the map for the Illawarra and Southern Tablelands so there is a wonderful trail you can do..See map link in bio
or DM me for the address.
Other ceramists on the map are 1.Clay Wollongong, (Illawarra). The remaining six are in the Southern Highlands, 2. Loopline Pottery Steve Harrison and Janine King, Balmoral Village, 3 Meg Patey Colo Vale,4.Tania Roland Mittagong, 5. Cintia Yamane Lemann, Glenquarry, 6. Blackhouse Studio, Susan Buret, Robertson, 7. AgitPot studio, Toni Warburton and guest, Elizabeth Rowe, Sutton Forest.
#gundungurracountry
@sharawadgi_hall
@Australianceramics
#agitpot
#AgitPotstudio
#garniture
#ACOS2024
@megpateyceramic
@taniarollond
@claywoll
@cintiaceramics
@sburetblackhousestudio
@toniwarburtonartist
#looplinepottery

Reclining woman in a coloured striped dress and bl

Reclining woman in a coloured striped dress and black swan in reeds motifs on a press moulded footed dish with reed pattern outside.
Another piece from ' tablescape,' a composition of mixed ceramic genres in 'from a studio garden' with paintings by Ruth Waller and Leah Bullen curated by Susan Buret at SHAC see link in bio.
#contemporaryceramics
#gundungurracountry

"Theo" called Fanny, "look at Theo!" and well she

"Theo" called Fanny, "look at Theo!" and well she might because the proud, striped skirt of Theodora Goodman streamed with fire. Her body bent to the music. Her face was thin with the music down to the bone. She was both realeased from her own body and imprisoned in the molten gold of Frank Parrot...
p. 78. The Aunt's Story
by Patrick White

cup as woman in a striped dress dancing.
Theodora Goodman's dress series.
(Throughout the novel, when White descrbes how she is dressed, Theodora is always in stripes)
'from a studio garden' SHAC, Robertson until December 1st.
link in bio
#theodoragoodmansdress
#contemporaryceramics
#stripes
#figurecup
#gundungurracountry
@shac_gallery

'Taost object' arose from an impulse to hand model

'Taost object' arose from an impulse to hand model white pipe clay over a solid terracotta brick to create a hollow form with the illusion of solidity. Paradoxical qualities of movement and dissolution were caught in a hovering moment of stoppage by the bisque firing.
The resulting somewhat bland, slightly enigmatic, white object did time in a conceptual drawing installation of brown paper charcoal pipe clay, iron oxide and terracotta on the floor of the Raynor Hoff gallery at NAS. It returned to the studio to smoulder in limbo.
My interest in firing melts and mutabilities led to a return to copper oxide and iron oxide pigments rather than stains. Dragged finger imprints over the surface suggested brushing a disrupted imbrication pattern, fluxed by transparent and translucent copper glazes. Gestures, flow forms and transformations suggested aspects of Taoist philosophy.
Gratutude to the local collectors who have acquired this piece and to other collectors who have acquired works from my tablescape, composed of various ceramic genres in 'from a studio garden' with painters @ruthwaller6060 and @leah.bullen curated by Susan Buret @shac_gallery until Sunday 1st December.
'Taoist object,' earthenware, painted with ceramic oxides and glazes.
#tabkescape
#fromastudiogarden
#object
#abstractobject
#ceramicobject
#taoistobject
#studioceramics
#contemporaryceramics
#gundungurracountry

This exquisite porcelain cup and saucer alighted w

This exquisite porcelain cup and saucer alighted with my short black coffee. Translucent and covered with a filligree of sgraffito, it has been delicatley hand modelled. Some hand made things are like the stuff of fairy tales snd this finely wrought cup by Gerry Wedd is one of those. One feels as if the balance of material, captured energy and form could defy gravity and the rhythms and variations in the pattern dance with liveliness.
Knowing that I delight in such things, it was given a cameo role at a dellicious dinner prepared by our hostess, a gardener and friend of one of the gardener artists in our current show 'from a studio garden'
She was given the first cup and saucer then discovered aother in a mysrerious shop, once she had her eye in.
There is lovely account by Garth Clarke about the pleasure of using a cup madw by Betty Woodman that has just come to mind.
(I know my pictutrs could do them better justice but they are of the moment snd authentic dinner table lighting)
#studiopottery
#fairytalecupandsaucer
#handpinchedporcelaincup
#sgfaffito
#gundungurracountry

tidal walk, rock platform, incoming tide, sou'west

tidal walk, rock platform, incoming tide, sou'wester.
#rockplatform
#tidalwalk
#seaweeds
#yuincountry

'Bookends for small notebooks' (moorhen and flowe

'Bookends for small notebooks'
(moorhen and flowers) in my mixed genre tablescape in 'from a studuo garden' with paintings by @ruthwaller6060 and monotypes by @leah.bullen @shac_gallery Thurs - Sun 10-4 until Dec1st.
#gundungurracountry
#fromasudiogarden
#ceramicbookends
#tablescape
#stilllife
#studiopottery
#contemporaryceramics

my multiple, 'a chorus of sirens' and detail no 8

my multiple, 'a chorus of sirens' and detail no 8. 'Teles' (h7w5d3cm)
In this exhibition, 'Voyager' @artistsoftheroundyard a group of eleven artists from our collective explore creative journeys in a diverse range of artworks at Retford Park in the Round Yard and White Cottage Galleries. On this weekend and 10am -4pm Thursday- Sunday until Nov 24th
artist demonstration/talks by @julie_haseler_reilly and @monica_trapaga in the Round Yard on next weeked 16th,17thNov.
#voyager
#artmultiple
#smallsculpture
#ceramicmultiple
#thetensirens
#contemporaryceramics
@nationaltrustnsw
@australianceramics

AND... Godfrey Miller! 'Summer' 1.detail 2.philoso

AND... Godfrey Miller! 'Summer'
1.detail 2.philosophy 3.Summer 4. the rest of the wall text
The Macquarie Gallery show until Sunday @ngununggula
#gundungurracountry
#australianmodernistpainting

Cliff, horizon, set, break, sky. #yuincountry #p

Cliff,
horizon,
set,
break,
sky.
#yuincountry
#pointnoreast
#meroonationalpark

A few fave pictures from the awesome and absorbin

A few fave pictures from the awesome and absorbing Macquarie Galleries show at Ngununggula Regional Art Gallery, Bowral.
1Sydney Nolan, 2. Ethleen Palmer, 3,4,5. Frank Hinder, 6. Grace Cossington Smith, 7. Ian Fairweather, 8.Jean Belette, 9. Lloyd Rees, 10. Jean Isherwood 11.David Boyd (large ceramic tile)
(Sorry, angles and cropping a bit dodgy.)
#australianmodernistpainting
#20thcenturypainting
#macquariegallery

Sea mist and the lake. #burrilllake #yuincountry

Sea mist and the lake.
#burrilllake
#yuincountry
#seamist

Dish with crimped rim, sleeping woman in a striped

Dish with crimped rim, sleeping woman in a striped dress in an arbour and black swan in reeds motifs inside and lotus root pattern outside.
Turquoise glaze (Inspired by 12th century Iranian silhouette wares.)
In group show 'from a studio garden' @shac_gallery
#contemporaryceramics
#gundungullacountry
#theodoragoodmansdress

Footed dish with reclining woman in a striped dres

Footed dish with reclining woman in a striped dress with black swan in reeds design inside and lotus root relief pattern from bisque clay mould outside. Included in tablescape in 'from a studio garden' at SHAC.
I have been looking at and admiring the design and means of production of 12th century Iranian silhouette wares.
Black swans on field ponds are drawn from passenger glimpses when driving around the Southern Highlands. Theodora Goodman, the mysterious character in 'the Aunt's Story' by Patrick White is always depicted in a striped dress. Then there is the exquisite 'sleeping lady' Neolithic terracotta figurine from Hal Saflieni Hypogeum in Malta.
They all met and morphed in the studio.
@shac_gallery
#passengerview
#memorydrawing
#blackswansinreedsmotif
#recliningfigure
#theodoragoodmansdress
#bisquemould
#iranianpottery
#gundungurracountry
#turquoiseglaze
#fromastudiogarden

Thanks to all who came to our opening of 'from a s

Thanks to all who came to our opening of 'from a studio garden' our group show and the solo show of superb collages by @julie.bradley.art @shac_gallery ( opposite the big potatoe) on that chilly Saturday arvo.(Yes there was fog at Robbo). Intriguing synergies between paintings by @ruthwaller6060 monoprints by @leah.bullen and my tablescape of ceramic containers, objects and sculptures and indeed the vibrant compositions by Julie Bradley in the ajoining room provoked rewarding dialogue and critcal engagement.
Gratitude and appreciation to our collectors and to
SHAC curator @sburetblackhousestudio for her concept and vision for the exhibitions and to the SHAC team for realisation. Special thanks to @chris._ward for being in house critic and for driving a pack of artists around the Southern Highlands countryside.
SHAC produces online catalogues available via their website.
#gundungurracountry
#contemporaryceramics
#contemporarypainting
#cotemporarysculpture
#contemporarymonotype
#contemporarycollage
#fromastudiogarden
@australianceramics
#creativesynergies

A weekend in the Southern Highlands? Two art openi

A weekend in the Southern Highlands? Two art openings by two local art collectives. 1.Today Saturday 4-6 pm 'From a studio garden' @shac_gallery - my 'tablescape' of ceramics with paintings by @ruthwaller6060 and @leah.bullen curated by @sburetblackhousestudio
2.tomorrow 4-6 pm 'Voyager' at Retford Park -my multiple 'a chorus of sirens' with sculptures, drawings, and paintings by a group of eleven @artistsoftheroundyard curated by @slavicazivkovic.artist and @brock_sykes_1
#artistcurators
#tablescape
#artmultiple
#gundungurracountry
#contemporaryceramics
#artcollective
@australianceramics

My take on the sirens: Raidne is number 9 in a fi

My take on the sirens: Raidne is number 9 in a first edition of ten in my multiple. 'A chorus of sirens' appears in Voyager, an extravagant group exhibition at Retford Park
by @artistsoftheroundyard

The show also includes some of my drawings and a terracotta sculpture, all on the theme of Ulysses tied to the mast as his sailors row through the dangerous straits, their ears plugged with beeswax.

Our opening is this Sunday 3rd November 2-4 pm Please come.
To help us with catering see in bio:
link tree to book FREE eventbrite tickets to Artists of the Round Yard Voyager Exhibition Opening:
Also FYI
Artists of the Round Yard Home Page exhibition news
https://www.artistsoftheroundyard.com.au/
Images
1.'Raidne,' glazed earthenware multiple (h7,w5,d3cm)
2,3,4 details from 'Siren song IV' graphite on paper
5 detail Siren Song I
6 drawings installed in White Cottage gallery, clockwise, Siren song II sepia coloured pencil on paper, Syren song I graphite on paper, Siren song III sepia coloured pencil on paper, Siren Song IV graphite on paper
7.Siren song IV (detail) graphite on paper
#raidne
#sirens
#ulyssesandthesirens
#contemporarydrawing
#contemporaryceramics
#artmultiple
#gundungurracountry

Polychrome glazed footed dish with chicken wire te

Polychrome glazed footed dish with chicken wire tessellation impressed with shapes that resemble flowers...another element in the tablescape I will install tomorrow @shac_gallery with paintings by @ruthwaller6060 and @leah.bullen
Opening this Saturday 2nd Nov arvo 4 -6 pm.. All welcome.

#fromastudiogarden
#gundungurracountry
#shapesthatresembleflowers
#decorativearts
#contemporaryceramics
#studiopottery
#thelesserarts
#chickenwiretesselation

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