Judy Pierce - Gallery owner and major artist
Judy is renown for her award winning teapots. She does make functional ones, but the funky ones are creating the excitement.
Through her Arts background and 30 years experience with clay, she entwines such personality into her pots.
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Ric Pierce - Gallery owner and major artist
Ric's engineering background influences the way he approaches clay. The pots are well designed and formed.
Glazes are adding to best suit the results. He is expert in the use of finicky glazes like copper reds and crystalline glazes.
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The Coming of Age
“It amazes me the time it takes to get a handle on life. It is only
post 30 that all our ideas, and our skills merge; our mid 20s
arrogance subsides, and our naively optimistic world views peters
away, and it all, finally, starts to come together.” Jacqui says.
Jacqui Pierce has been looking at, thinking about, making and
generally immersed in art for the better part of her 30 years. She
studied oil painting and Post and Modern art history at Deakin
University and pursued this esoteric career choice by completing an
Honours degree at Melbourne University, looking at the Surrealist
art of James Gleeson. It was at the end of the course that her
lecturers quietly told her that, “You basically have no career
options, you need to go and do another degree” or as another stoic
women would say … “Stop naval gazing and make some money!”
Capitalistically deciding for the money, Jacqui completed a Diploma
of Education and has been bouncing around Australia, teaching (and
tackling) kids ever since.
It was in early 2007 that Jacqui first started printing, signing up
for a course to spend some quality time with her mum. It was clear
from the first print that she ‘had something’. Her cartoon comments
on life feature a little girl who continually finds herself trying
to relate to, or adapt to her life around her. Jacqui pertains that
it is not autobiographical, rather comes from the many conversations
she has with friends, over glasses of wine. And although her little
girl and whimsical cartoon style are seemingly comic, often the
questions that arise or the situations dealt with are poignant.
“I find life is quite strange, and hard to deal with. It is
sometimes upsetting, frustrating and other times hilarious, but
always very strange.” Jacqui says. “It took me a long time to get
all of the pieces of the puzzle together. I think, now, they finally
are, and I am able to relay my ideas to others.”
Jacqui currently lives in Queensland and is part of the print making
group, Impress. Her prints can be seen in three monthly exhibitions
with this group. She has recently been selected for a print exchange
with England; four prints from the Bridging series are making their
way to England with 100 other prints from members of the Impress
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Jacqui Pierce Brisbane Queensland
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Cathy Oddie Wangaratta Victoria
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Cathy’s whimsical figures dance over her work in a distinctive style.
She lives and works from her property in Greta near Wangaratta, NE Vic.
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Trevor Pitt Mt Gambier South Australia
‘The Claypitt Pottery’
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Arnaud Barraud Melbourne Victoria
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Born
in New Zealand in 1942 and briefly studied Architecture in the early
1960’s.
Arnaud then spent a few years as a painter and sculptor, travelling
and living in Mexico before turning to clay in 1970.
From that time, his enjoyment and commitment to creating pots that
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Howard Phillips Eldorado Victoria
Howard uses the pottery wheel as his primary method of forming pots.
He has a fascination for glazes and this is a strong feature of his work.
Howard spent many years teaching Art and now runs Eldorado Pottery.
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Elsie Mahon (right) Parkes New South Wales
Glass Mosaic Artist, Elsie lives and works from her studio in Parkes NSW.
She is a regular exhibitor in Galleries in Central West NSW and is recipient of many Art prizes and awards.
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Jane Annois works from her studio in Warrandyte and has been a ceramic artist for 25 years exhibiting regularly in Australia and France.
She has given raku workshops around Australia, in New Zealand and in France, and has represented Australia in conferences and symposiums.
Jane organizes tours to visit France several times a year with an emphasis on visiting potters.
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Jane Annois Melbourne Victoria
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Jean-Marc lives and works in a small village south of Lyon France, however he visits Australia for 2 months each year.
His tableware is typical of the pots of the terre vernissee style of the Provence.
He exhibits widely in France.
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Jean Marc Plantier Lyon France
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John Stroomer Kyabram Victoria
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Kerrie Docker Jinderra New South Wales
Her pottery is mainly wheel thrown and stoneware fired.
She likes to add character to her pieces by cutting away or adding to the basic form.
Kerrie prefers to use a limited number of glazes modifying them with oversprays to create individual pieces of contemporary design..
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Paul Wheeler Geelong Victoria
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From his studio near Geelong , Paul produces a range of fine stoneware tableware.
His specialty is a purple reduction glaze with wax resist decoration.
All Paul’s work is fully functional and may be used in oven, microware and dishwasher.
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Wayne Jeffery Shepparton Victoria
Wayne lives and works from his studio in Shepparton, Victoria Australia
His work demonstrates his precision throwing skills and he puts a lot of emphasis on form and function.
Decoration detail is done at the forming stage and complimented by his classic glazes.
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Ian and Christine Reid Dulong Queensland
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Their studio is set in the hills behind Brisbane in sunny Queensland.
A team effort, Ian throws the pots while Christine decorates them in her unique style creating landscapes with glaze over glaze techniques.
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Anna Payne-Steinmann
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I see the earth’s surface as a fragile crust.
Aerial views of this crust present rich visual experiences from viewpoints varying in distance from the surface.
The varying viewpoints may be explored in the same piece.
The further the viewpoint, from near space for example, the more fragile and abstracted it appears.
A piece may take its inspiration from an area of approximately fifty square kilometres and yet could appear to be from much further away.
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Brenton Saxby Beechworth Victoria |
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Jena Bedson Warburton Victoria
Jena lives and works in the Dandenongs near Melbourne.
Her whimsical approach to ceramics adds another dimension to tableware!
All Jena’s works are meant to be used and are safe in oven and dishwasher
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Tania Magennis Beechworth Victoria
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Adam Cox Lakes Entrance Victoria
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Michelle Wigg
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'China Revival'
Michelle Wigg works from home and lives in Melbourne, Victoria
“I have had a long time love of fabric prints and pattern, and now
enjoy finding these images in china. Discarded pieces of china, with their own patina of age
and history, that I can give a renewed role to – out of nana’s tea set ,to wearable art – a China Revival.
Enjoyable is the challenge of not only finding a piece, but working with where the inherent flaws of that piece take me.”
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Emily Laszuk
Since the 1980’s,Emily has been a professional ceramic Artist, and
today, she is well known for her signature blue and white
tableware depicting a vast array of farm and native animals. Emily lives and works from her studio on a large wool growing property near Bathurst NSW
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