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Raku is a method of firing pottery that is quick, inexpensive and spectacular! Originating in 16th Century Japan and now practised all over the world this fun way of low-firing...

How did the people of Hobart respond to the event? The Triennale was well-supported by local galleries, TMAG, UTAS and those further afield around Tasmania who planned...

I was fortunate enough to be able to be present at the opening on 11 May of artist, Dan Elbourne’s exhibition, Deathgate. This exhibition is a ceramic installation that comprises...

We were very fortunate to have Mollie Bosworth talk about her stunning decorative techniques, for while she has been using and experimenting with mineral salts for many years,...

At the closing session of the recent Australian Ceramics Triennale in Hobart, 1-4 May 2019, the 700 strong audience was invited to assemble again in Central Australia. The...

I’d like to start with a caveat as such - I don’t profess to being a professional photographer, but like all potters, I have an ongoing need to document and promote my work...

Every pottery picture tells a story. An essential part of that storytelling is the composition or relationship between the elements within a photograph. The things that affect...

Somewhere down the track, you may need to make something to a particular size. And knowing that clay shrinks quite a bit, it is vital to know precisely how much and when in the...

Planning a ceramics studio conversion needs some careful thought. A two-car garage under a suburban home has to be converted into a small pottery teaching studio that could house...

How to save money and give your ceramic art that unique touch. When a wide range of commercial glazes are available for speedy delivery at the click of a button, why would you go...

Recent glaze research work in the US by both Matt Katz and Sue McLeod looks at the use of Boron as a flux in cone 6 firings. Cone 6 is used typically with mid-fired clays in...

It’s important to remember that in the internet age, your ceramic artworks have two existences. The first is the actual object: it has three dimensions, it’s solid and, well,...

Here’s the good news. You have finally gotten most of your pots through all the stages of firing, and there they are, just out of the kiln, laid out on the table, all splendid...

In Instagram, images that “pop-out” is the term for photographs that reach out and grab the attention of users for that 100 milli-seconds people spend deciding if they will look...

On Thursday the 25 October 2018, Visual Art students at Aspley State High School participated in a Raku Firing workshop with the help of Tania Edwards from Ceramics Arts...

Pricing your pottery is always a vexed issue, that never seems to get more comfortable. Markets and tastes are ever-changing, so is the price people are willing to pay for...

The Triennale is Australia’s landmark national ceramics conference, bringing artists, educators, theorists and collectors from around the country, and the world, together to...

Capitalism treats every place and its inhabitants as a generic resource. As a result, the sleek shiny plastic baubles that are instantly attractive are found the world over; they...

Monte Lupo Arts is a ceramics based art studio established in 1991, inspired by the small pottery village in Tuscany. The studio provides training, job coaching and employment...

This article looks at the intersecting concepts of function, form and fine-art in ceramics as a way of understanding the way makers approach their clay works. On a fundamental...

To gain any insight in contemporary Ceramic practice in our society as it stands at present, it is first necessary to look back at how it has evolved over the past fifty or so...

While the individual accomplishment of the pottery is considerably varied the number of potters identified demonstrates, unequivocally, how thoroughly Harvey School ceramics...

Painting with coloured clay water: Terra sigillata or ‘Terra Sig’ if you are a cool dude or can’t spell, is not that difficult to make and use! It just sounds complicated. Pru...

As a business person, I often look at potters with a mixture of profound respect and utter bemusement. How can anyone spend his or her life with their hands in mud, work for a...

The presenters of the 2018 Ceramic Arts Queensland Ian Currie Memorial Lecture knew Ian Currie well. Both Paul Davis and Jacqueline Clayton regard the “Ian Currie method” as a...

Raku is a method of firing pottery that is quick, inexpensive and spectacular! Originating in 16th Century Japan and now practised all over the world this fun way of low-firing...

Basic kiln technology has been relatively slow to change. The fundamental things a kiln has to do - applying heat-work to clay objects - is a pretty uncomplicated thing to do....

Somchai Charoen is a Thai born ceramic artist based in Sydney who has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Trained in industrial ceramic design, he was a former lecture...

Ceramic Arts Queensland members have been following the progress of Su Brown and Wallace Rockhole Pottery for a number of years now. We marvel at Su's input at Wallace Rockhole,...

Mother daughter team Charlie and Mieke Proost - De Deyne developed a successful pottery business that sells pottery, coffee and pottery classes. It took a while but the business...

On a warm Brisbane morning more than twenty five potters gathered in the courtyard of the Brisbane Institute of Art. They came together to learn new techniques in the art of...

According to the comprehensice Artist In Residence (AIR) database in Japan AIR_j.info, there are several AIR business models dedicated to ceramic arts. Ceramic Arts Queensland is...

Emere Can uses the 3D printed ceramic as base form and then adds to it by hand to “transform the artificial forms from a machine into an organic structure, to deform the ceramic...

The industrial machine is a black box between designers and users. It is an imaginary border dividing craft and design. The works of Olivier van Herpt, however, pry apart the...

For many artists, the process for producing their work is often as important as the final outcome. At the other extreme there are artists who care little for the process and...

Mostly self taught, Mollie Bosworth completed a Diploma of Art (ceramics) at the Australian National University in 2003. She has won several awards for her work including the...

Chester Nealie introduced three potters from Kyoto Japan - Aki Katayama, Kasumi Ueba and American Derek Larsen. Pottery made in Kyoto is referred to as “Kyo-yaki /...

One of the first International Artist to arrive at Cooroy for the Smoke on the Water Woodfirers Conference was Shirobey Kobayashi. Shirobey is a Japanese ceramic artist who in...

The spark that ignited an explosion in the studio potters’ movement of the early 60s has not been identified. That fire burned brightly for a few decades and then smouldered for...

We have recently added the Glazy online ceramic glaze database to our new website.  Glazy has been developed by an American "geek-potter" Derek Philip Au.  Derek worked in the IT...

My style is elegant simplicity focusing on materials and shapes and highlighting their beauty, providing a canvas for chefs and home cooks alike to plate their food. I draw my...

At the Morningside School of Arts on Sunday 30 April, Ceramic Arts Qld volunteers demonstrated how it’s done to an inquisitive crowd of adults and children at the the Southside...

RUNNING A SUCCESSFUL CERAMIC MANUFACTURING BUSINESS Sunday 19 February 2017 Anna-Marie Wallace began her workshop by thanking the indigenous community who are "part of this...

2016 is zooming by and my very short visit to Central Australia this year rapidly came to an end. I am often asked why I do this, head off to the small Aranda Community at...

Sculptor Alexander Esenarro has flown in from Melbourne to present the last of Ceramic Arts Queensland’s Toolkit workshops for 2016. The RQAS - an impressively large and...

In July of this year with the assistance of an Arts Queensland Career Development grant, I had the privilege to take up a month long residency with A.I.R. Vallauris [Artists in...

Kylie Johnson is the owner and creator of Paper Boat Press, a boutique ceramic studio in Ashgrove, Brisbane which she opened in 2004. There she sells her own work, holds...