In the Fires of Continuity: Ceramic Dialogues at Grafton Regional Gallery
by Stephen BirdThe exhibitions at Grafton Regional Gallery – ATEMPORAL: The Animated Vessel by Avital Sheffer and FIRED INTO BEING: The Enduring Legacy of Alan Peascod – represent a compelling intergenerational dial…
John Olsen and Me: A Collaboration
Over the later stages of his life and career, I worked with John Olsen in a joint investigation of the dialogue between art and ceramics. It was a rich, if rather complicated, collaboration. In this a…
Garth Clark’s Endnotes: The Romantic Brutalist
I commented that they were too factory-like and while I like to blame my insensitivity on the gallery interior, it was really blindness on my part.
John Neely
by Owen RyeJohn’s many achievements are presented formally elsewhere – his development of the train kiln, variants of which are now seen around the world; his research on reduction cooling and red colours in woo…
The Fairness Cup: A Greedy Alert from Ancient China
The ‘Fairness Cup’ is a porcelain cup, made for drinking, created by the Han nationality of Ancient China. It dates to the middle of the Tang Dynasty (827-841 AD), which is similar to the ‘Shentong Cu…