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| Archive of Featured Artists |
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Listed below are our past Featured Artists. To read their story click on the story title. |
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| » | Art for Heart's Sake | | Meet Raelean Hall, inspiring and healing others through her art and art therapy. | | |
| » | The Art of Spirit | | Meet Meloney Steyl, expressing her passion and faith through paint and pen. | | |
| » | Magic Music Mamma | | Meet Kath Willams, a talented performer and teacher, touching others through the magic of music. | | |
| » | Jewellery Gems. | | Meet Pauline Murray, decorating women everywhere with her exquisite jewellery. | | |
| » | Market Art Magic | | Meet Adrienne Parker, blending pattern and colour to create inspiring works of art. | | |
| » | Glamorous Glass | | Meet Glenys Fentiman shining a light on the diversity and beauty of glass art. | | |
| » | Inspiring Images | | Meet Tracy Woolley a photographer and business woman inspiring people all over the world. | | |
| » | Outback Artist | | Meet June McCotter, promoting and painting the essence of the outback experience. | | |
| » | Soulful Singer | | Meet Delany Delaney, a mesmerizing and magical performer, weaving her magic through song. | | |
| » | Natural Beauty | | Meet Saffron Drew, capturing the texture, colour, and dynamic pattern of nature in her art. | | |
| » | Forming the Female | | Meet Lindi Birnie – ‘Body & Soul’ – celebrating the female form sculpturally. | | |
| » | Funky Females | | Meet Denise Daffara, celebrating the light and joy of women in her funky, fun, colourful paintings | | |
| » | Captivating Ceramics | | Meet Shannon Garson, a porcelain artist inspired by nature and history, blending them into magical pieces. | | |
| » | Painting Pleasures | | Meet Natalie Dyer, diversely expressing the beauty of life in sensational works of art | | |
| » | Sensational Sistas | | Meet Louise and Sarah, sisters in life, string and song, creating beautiful music together. | | |
| » | Alluring Abstracts | | Meet Christine Maudy, French born abstract artist creating soulful abstracts and striking colours. | | |
| » | Sculpting Sensations | | Meet Anne-Laure Demene, superbly sculpting form and fauna in a variety of mediums. | | |
| » | Mayan Magic | | Meet Heidi Woodman, ceramic artist blending ancient wisdom with intuitive impulses, expressed in earth material. | | |
| » | Divine Drawing | | Meet Francie Griffin, using her artistic and intuitive gifts to contact and draw your spirit guide | | |
| » | Quintessential Quilts | | Meet Cynthia Morgan, creating tantalizing textile art, specializing in art quilts. | | |
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| Meet Shannon Garson, a porcelain artist inspired by nature and history, blending them into magical pieces. |
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| How long have you been creating ceramic pieces? I began my career as a painter completing a Bachelor of Visual Arts in 1993. My degree concentrated on conceptual art and as a reaction against this I then started decorating for a ceramicist in Brisbane and learned to throw from there. From the minute I started throwing I knew I wanted to make fine, white vessels. |
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| How have you developed your skill in this area?
Over the last decade I've been refining my throwing skills and studying decorative techniques throughout the world. In 2005 I received a Churchill Fellowship which allowed me to spend 3 months travelling in Europe studying the art of the medieval and Renaissance periods. I think I bring a lot of skills in observation and composition and formal elements of draftsmanship to ceramics through training my hand and eye as a painter. I want the surface of the pot to be part of the drawing, not just a surface for the drawing to sit on. I want the whole pot to be experienced, from the weight of it as you pick it up, the texture, the drawing, colour, smoothness of the glaze, all the elements, draw the viewer into experiencing the vessel. Everyone who owns one of these pots has an experience that no-one else can share as the owners get to pick up the vessels and hold them and interact with them intimately. |
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| Who or what has been a major inspiration/influence in your ceramic creations? I really love contemporary domestic ceramics. Some of the best makers in Australia include Jane Sawyer’s tactile, contemporary terracotta, Prue Morrison’s fabulous weird, satirical slipcast work illustrated using terra sigillata and Malcolm Greenwood’s beautiful, classic handthrown domestic ware.
I’m also inspired by botanical collections of the 19th century - What inspires me about this is the playful curiousity evident in the gentleman scientists of the 19th century. They just took a crazy idea and investigated and investigated and often made amazing scientific discoveries simply through collecting and observing obsessively. I think there is much to be learned through simply observing the world, being aware of the physical things that surround us. This is also what I love in the work of painter, Georgia O’Keefe. Through observation O’Keefe linked the actual world to the metaphorical world. Her paintings became an abstract rendering of what flowers are really about- flaunting the reproductive organs and attracting pollinators. O’Keefe’s flowers take the idea and observation of a flower and extract its pyscological resonances.
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| What do you hope to give with your art?
The presence of handmade domestic ware has become a symbol of the link between artist and community, the importance of a skill that takes time to learn, a calm, individual voice amid the mass-produced. In this world of fast food, and corporate control of “good taste “ in everything from clothing to home wares the handmade pot represents an investment in individualism, an aesthetic that values patience and celebrates humanity in objects.
I recommend collecting ceramics as a great way to enter the art market. Following a single artist throughout their career is very rewarding. A collection of various ceramics can be structured by focusing on a couple of artists over a period of years. This collection gradually reveals the growth of a philosophy. Themes that the artist engages with emerge and submerge. A sustained collection grows with both the collector and the artist. Collecting in this way gives both the artist and the collector hope and inspiration.
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| What do you get from your art?
I get everything from it. When I first set up my studio about ten years ago, some days it was quite hard to force my mind onto the pots. Now pottery and making art is as much part of me as the blood in my veins. I have spent so much time thinking about and making pots that I feel I couldn’t do anything else. There are so many sides to being a working artist, thinking of ideas, developing physical skills, learning computer/ office/ pr skills, being in contact with clients and galleries, it is a very diverse job and I love it passionately. |
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| What has been your greatest moment with your ceramics?
Exhibition openings of a new body of work are great, getting recognition in the form of awards and grants is fabulous but really the greatest moments of my career are alone in the studio. Nothing can match the quiet feeling of pride when the pot embodies a greater idea, the notion that there is a link between everyday life and spiritual fulfilment the possibility of a world where objects are meaningful. |
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| Where would you like to take your art?
Jeweller, Rebecca Ward and I recently received a $40 000 Arts Qld grant to document the wallum swamp and create a collaborative body of work based around this. We are working on a body of porcelain, jewellery and glass work to tour Australia at the end of 2010. I’m exploring the possibilities of drawings on pots in groups, using the porcelain as the medium and working back into the surface with charcoal type effects.
This project also includes photographic and film documentation. We are working with documentary film maker Phoebe Hart of Hartflickr films for this part of Swamp Cartography.
We have started a blog following the collaboration.
You can find it at:
http://swampcartography.blogspot.com/
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| What would you say to someone who is interested in taking up ceramics?
Ceramics is a great medium, There are so many aspects of ceramics to explore. What I love about ceramics as an artform is that it enters people’s homes and domestic life. This is art that can affect people everyday, offer them comfort in times of need, be part of family celebration. I think domestic pots are a very quiet but powerful form of art. |
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| What part of your spirit adds to your success as an artist? If I had one thing that I try and abide by and that informs my art it would be “look closer”. I believe that the world around us is more diverse and fascinating than we ever notice. Everything I try and do with porcelain is an attempt to get people to look closer, at the natural world, at their possessions. Looking closer is an endless journey, the closer I look the more intangible and mysterious the world seems. |
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| Who do you know that is a ‘spirited’ woman?
I have some very special “Spirited women in my life. My great friend, jeweller Rebecca Ward is a creative inspiration to me, she has a lot of integrity and her calm, quirky way of seeing things is an inspiration.
http://www.rebeccawardjewellery.com/
I have another lovely creative friend Renee Blackwell. Renee is a designer and bead collector and travels the world finding beautiful, exotic beads and stones that she uses in her jewellery. Renee is inspirational in so many ways, I love visiting her beautiful eco- friendly house in the forest and hearing stories of her latest adventures.
http://www.reneeblackwelldesign.com/
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