YARROBIL #4 OUT JUNE 24
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Issue #3 is out now. We continue to deliver the best critical writing on ceramic art with contributions from professional writers and critics. What these vessels seem to require of us is that we keep earthwaterfire unsplit. And yet it’s strange to think about water when talking about ceramics. Fire? Yes. Earth? Yes, as I …
Louise Boscacci writes on her enduring relationship with the sea. Louise Boscacci explores clay and ceramics as a material language of flow, chance, touch and possibility. “I make pots and other things,” she writes. “They are all connected.” Her practice also composes interplays of porcelain, light, photography and sound in new objects and assemblages. An …
Contributors to issue 2 of Yarrobil include Garth Clark, Jacques Kaufmann, John Hughes and Jack Troy, Fred Olsen, Renata Cassiano and Craig Hartenberger, Tom Supensky, Moyra Elliott, Jane Sawyer and Christopher Allen.
Garth Clark writes a world-beating essay on Chinese dissident artist Ai WeiWei for our next issue. Accompanied by several stunning images Clark explains convincingly why he considers Ai to be one of the greatest artists of the 21st century. The article is titled Porcelain and Native Rights and we are honoured to lead-off our second …
Award winning Australian writer John Hughes responds to the work of Tasmanian ceramicist Neil Hoffmann. This creative non-fiction essay brings us into a world not usually associate with ceramic art and ranges from critical theory to a personal response using literary devices. Here is an excerpt from Thirteen Ways of Looking at Fire: ‘No human …