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This week we were joined by Rachel North, an educator and multi-disciplinary artist working on Yuggera Ugarapul Country. Rachel's work explores the complex connections between landscape and memory. Using ceramics, painting and textiles to communicate her conceptual ideas, Rachel tells us how her practice has evolved over time to cross creative disciplines and deepen her understanding of how place can hold and hinder memory.
Rachel tells us about her experiences as an arts educator of the next generation and how she engages her students with the medium of clay. Lastly we ask Rachel how to begin working on a big project, and what's her piece of advice for other makers?
Keep in touch with Rachel and see her latest work here: @maple_and_raven_studio
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Today we had the privilege to talk to Nathanlie Marie. Nathanlie (aka Lily) is at the early stages of building a career in clay. It was wonderful to hear her deep passion for the material and be reminded of that obsession we both started with.
Nathanlie Marie is a Filipino artist currently based in Australia. Informed by her lived experience, she works with ceramics and sculpture to investigate the impact of memory on the human experience, as well as the individual and collective identity. Marie investigates the complex emotions brought on by sentimentality towards seemingly mundane objects and situations. Using familiar imagery and objects, combined with her bright and whimsical artistic style, she creates visual narratives which encourage viewers to reflect on their own experiences, through memory and how they perceive the world around them.
We're excited to see what she does next!
@nathanliemarie
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This episode we chat about our personal glaze journeys, where we are in our glaze educations and where we want to be. We discuss how we use glaze in our creative practices and our introductions into using commercially made glazes and how we began experimenting with raw materials to make our own.
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Resources:
For Flux Sake Podcast
https://ceramicmaterialsworkshop.com/for-flux-sake-podcast.html
Digital Fire
https://digitalfire.com
Glazy
https://glazy.org
Learn to Make Glazes For Australian Potters
https://www.facebook.com/groups/glazes/
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Today Jane chats with artist, educator, academic and community worker, David Usher. We chat about David's rich history in the arts in Brisbane and Toowoomba, his research into the 'Spook' and the importance of community. Please check out David's instagram as it really brings this chat to life with artworks and photos: a real archive of a creative life!
https://www.instagram.com/the_david_usher/
David Usher is a Brisbane born Toowoomba based artist undertaking a Doctorate at the University of Southern Queensland - his area of research is ‘the Spook’.David explains, ‘the Spook occurs in an artwork through the culmination of a series of elements - of the application of composition, colour and light... The artist develops an intuitive awareness or knowledge about their arts practice to gain a sense of the overall feeling of the work in front of them, to ascertain whether the composition, or ‘feel’ of the work has reached the moment when it has a kind of magic about it.’ David’s work captures the essence, or emotion within a landscape, and in doing so, embodies the feeling or experience of the Spook.
There is a wealth of theoretical research David has engaged with, he has recently co-authored an essay titled ‘Notions of the Spook and the Role of the Studio: Considerations of Space and the Sensory Experiences of Producing Art’.
The thing that is special about this research is that it is a theoretical discussion of something that is felt. The instinctive landscapes are a direct translation of David’s physical experience in a landscape, his experience is captured and transferred to be read as the Spook in his paintings/ceramics.
David has shown with several galleries including Doggart and ALG, and has work in collections including Queensland Art Gallery, Artbank, Brisbane City Hall Gallery and Queensland Potters Association.
https://www.david-usher.com/David is represented by Alexandra Lawson Gallery.
https://www.alexandralawsongallery.com/David is exhibiting at La Trobe Art Space with Naomi White and Liesl Baker in a show called Tall Tales 11 -17 June. https://www.latrobeartspace.com/
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In the episode today we are reflecting (gushing) about the week we have just had in North West NSW at Clay Gulgong.
Josh Copus @joshcopuspottery https://www.joshcopus.com/Tan Tek Heng (Alvin) @tucollabNaidee Changmoh @naidee_changmohChanakarn (Punch) Semachai @numpucsh https://www.numpucsh.com/Shiyuan Xu @shiyuanxu129Ted Secombe @tedsecombeofficial https://tedsecombe.com/Malcom Greenwood @malcomgreenwoodceramics https://malcolmgreenwood.com/Tim See @timseeclayEbony Russel @ebonyrussell.art https://ebonyrussell.com/Ruth Ju-shih Li @ruth.li.artTomoko Konno @arttomoko https://www.moonxmoon.com/Marina Pribaz @marinapribaz https://marinapribaz.com/Aaron Scythe @godinc247 https://www.ascythe.com/Simone Fraser @simonefraserceramics https://simonefraser.com.au/Fleur Schell @fleurschell https://www.fleurschell.com/Keith Brymer Jones @keithbrymerjones https://www.keithbrymerjones.com/
Clay Gulgong is a week long biennial event, globally recognised for its strong links with the field of ceramics. It is run by Mansfield Ceramics and brings an amazing group of national and international artists to the beautiful town of Gulgong.
https://www.mansfieldceramics.com/clay-gulgong/about/
@claygulgong_mansfieldceramics
Here are the artists we spoke about:
UniSQ Biennial Art Award
https://www.unisq.edu.au/about-unisq/locations/toowoomba/art-gallery/art-award/2024-finalists
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Today Rora and Jane discuss putting their work into the world. When do you do it? Where do you do it? How do you do it? Deep dives into markets, galleries, art prizes and more.
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In this episode we have the privilege to speak to two amazing artists - Shannon Garson & Sarah Rayner! Both women live and work on beautiful Jinibara Country (Maleny and surrounds) in Regional Queensland (in the background you can hear the local birds squawking/chirping and leaves rustling.)
It's a long rich chat. We cover so many great topics - clay origin stories, working from a home studio, finding your voice, artist statements, importance of community, and the power of critique.
Shannon Garson
https://www.instagram.com/shannongarson/
https://www.shannongarsonporcelain.com.au/
Shannon is running the next creative voyage in July in Maleny. Find out more here -https://creativevoyagemaleny.com/
Sarah Rayner
https://www.instagram.com/sarah.rayner/
https://www.sarahrayner.com.au/
Sarah is represented by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert https://gallerysallydancuthbert.com/
Though we better add a glossary for a couple of term we mentioned...
Terra sig - Terra sigillata is a very smooth, lustrous coating of clay which resembles a glaze and is virtually waterproof.
NEIS (New Enterprise Incentive Scheme) - a government funded program supporting new small business owners. It's still happening https://www.dewr.gov.au/new-business-assistance-neis -
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Today we are at Rora's place and we are taking a deep dive into Kilns! Rora has a Gas Kiln and Jane has an Electric Kiln, we both got them second hand and have had our challenges. We are no experts, just sharing what we have learnt along the way.
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Our first interview!!!
In this episode we are interviewing the all time great human Peta Berghofer. We speak about many topics including working with clay, inspiration and design processes, teaching and artist residencies.
Peta Berghofer is an Australian artist based on Giabal and Jarowair lands/Toowoomba, Queensland. Working with clay as her medium and the vessel as her form, Peta creates both ceramic sculptures and functional wares for daily use. Her work references historically familiar form and function, but she disrupts these expectations of traditional vessel-based, ceramic art practices.Whether functional or functionless, Peta’s self-referential ceramics are most often presented as the same body of work, exhibited as abstracted still-life installations. Here she plays with distinctions between gallery and domestic spaces, engaging with historic and contemporary tensions between art, craft, and design.
Check out Peta's work below
https://www.petaberghofer.com/
https://www.instagram.com/petaberghofer/
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Setting Goals for 2024 - where we're going in 2024, what we want to explore and how to find joy in the things we struggle with (including more reclaim chats - it seems to be an ever-present subject for us both!).
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Welcome to the Birds of Clay Podcast!
Episode 2 is the part two to our introductions. We go into more detail about where we exactly are in the world (the famous Lockyer Valley!) and what's going on for us right now. Again, this was recorded late 2023, it's taken a while to learn how to edit and use all the tech. We'll catch up soon!
The group show we spoke about is on now. If you are in the Toowoomba, Queensland region you can check it out at Rosalie Gallery Goombungee until 3 March 2024 https://events.tr.qld.gov.au/events-by-category/exhibition/120466/exhibition-terrain.
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Welcome to the Birds of Clay Podcast!
Episode 1 is just a little introduction to who we are and our clay journeys. We are good chatters so our intro will be over two episodes. It's also taken us a while to get here so we are living in the past (we recorded late 2023) but everything is still relevant. We'll catch up soon!
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A little taste of what's to come - clay, chats and laughs!
Episode 1 coming soon...
