GOMA Christmas Markets

SATURDAY 29TH NOVEMBER 2015

You'll see my porcelain tableware at Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art Christmas Design Markets in a couple of weeks at GOMA

"ECO-ART AND CLAY" April school holiday workshop

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

This workshop is for primary school children and limited to 10 children. Your booking will be secured once you have paid the $80 fee, which can be done by an electronic funds transfer on the internet. Contact me for my bank details.

Come along and work in a Moorooka artists studio. Produce clay tiles from your own plaster stamps, paint, assemble a group wall work and take home your own mounted panel. April 8th and 9th at 2/28 Baldock st. Moorooka at 9.30 am to 12.30 pm. Cost $80.

GETTING THERE

2/28 Baldock st accessible from inbound side of Ipswich rd only. If traveling outbound turn left at Hamilton rd, do a U-turn then turn right at the traffic lights back on Ipswich rd and Baldock st is 2nd on the left, opposite the new Toyota car yard. The studio is on the left, a timber building painted yellow and white. Parking is limited as there are a number of studios in the block so you may have to park in the street.

BRING

Morning tea and a water bottle. Wear old clothes and bring an apron

ABOUT THE TEACHERS

Ginni Jones and Jane Gamble have both taught ceramics at schools, Tafe and worked as community artists. They are committed to passing on their knowledge and passion to young children and developing their creative skills.
Contact Jane 38432803 Ginni 0402188727 virginiajones21@hotmail.com

 

"Cherish" plates

   

 New summer plates

THE EIGHT FORESTS

The first works I made at the gardens in 2011 was these unfired clay pod forms. I wrote continuosly around the form the names of the eight major forest types in Australia. Acacia Casuarina Callitris Melaleuca Eucalyptus Plantaions Mangroves Rainforests I later installed them in the bamboo grove where I left them to biodegrade.

the "Meet the Makers" tour in 2011

I talked about the work I was doing in the gardens that year and showed images of my earlier ephemeral installations in Korea,Japan and Denmark. I also showed and had for sale ceramic works, I had developed during my residency at the Guldagergaad Ceramic Research Centre in Denmark.

What a great setting for my artists talk last year

Dr Virginia Jones is a leading Queensland ceramic practitioner with an extensive exhibition resume. Her highly sort after production pieces are often informed by her large-scale environmental installation works. Virginia has recently undertaken a year’s artist-in-residency at the Mount Coot-tha Botanical Gardens. It is in this beautiful external studio that she will demonstrate one of the techniques that she employs in artworks.

MEET THE MAKERS - Artisan Studio Tours 2011

This is last years tour but there will be another organised by Artisan this year towards the middle of 2012.

“Meet the Makers” in a private tour of three working artist studios and discover the artistic talent alive in Brisbane.

Be inspired and discover three of Brisbane’s unique and creative studios. Join artisan for a three and a half hour tour of these rare and restricted spaces.

Participants will enjoy personal presentations by the artists in the fields of jewellery, printmaking and glass making, art and ceramic and will be able to engage one on one with these senior artists. Additionally in some cases you will be able to purchase artists works directly from the studio.

World Environment Day 2011

In celebration of World Environment Day on Sunday June I will be exhibiting my ephemeral installation The Eight Forests in the botanical gardens at Mt Coot-tha in Brisbane. At 10am and 2pm I will be giving an artist talk about this work and my residency this year at the Botanical Gardens.

During the day visitors will be able to take part in an environmental art activity writing on clay and recycled paper what the forests they have visited have meant to them.

My installation refers to the eight major forest types in Australia. Acacia, Callitris, Casuarina, Eucalypt, Mangroves, Melaleuca, Plantations and Rainforests. These forests are one of Australia's greatest assets and are complex, diverse ecosystems that provide a wide array of environmental and socioeconomic benefits and serives.


This work is inspired by the United Nations International Year of the Forests, 2011

Working wih bamboo in Korea

The bamboo grove at the MtCoot-tha gardens on my early morning walk was quite alluring, deep maroon and rusty orange with the morning dew still on the new shoots.

I made an artwork in Korea using 12 foot bamboo poles and clay mixed with paper pulp. I was amazed when the delivery of bamboo arrived at my studio space in Gongju, the poles, about 50 of them, were all 12 ft long and perfectly straight.

I later visited a bamboo forest in Japan to help another artist cut lengths for her artwork, an amazing experience as the bamboo went on for ever and I could walk easily through the forest of bamboo and never see the sky or too far ahead.

'From the Forest'

The Focus of my residency at the Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens, Brisbane is the Australian Plant Communities section that contains the gardens collection of native plants in natural communities.

I have spent my time during the first month of my residency wandering leisurely through the different sections of the gardens looking for inspiration and frankly, just enjoying the luxury of spending my working hours in such a pleasurable way.