JULY 2015

The Newsletter of Potters’ Society Inc.

INSIDE: Surround/s Reviewed Soda Firing Report Juz Kitson Interview 40th Birthday Winter Fair Market Place...and more

Greg Daly, Golden Light, 2014 Thrown, lustreglaze [silver] and brushwork, 140x430mm Image: the artist

Surround/s—poetry Special Shorts Term 3 enrolements are open! Don’t miss out on our Special Shorts which in landscape forms include: Soft Slabs with Velda Hunter where you can explore working Review by Kathryn Wells with soft slabs to create quick, free flowing forms. A three day class over Curated by Patsy Hely and Sarah Rice The mountains surrounding Canberra two weekends Cooking With Gas where Chris Harford will skill you Watson Arts Centre are specifically referenced in many up on the gas kiln and includes a 2-26 July 2015, Opening 10 July 6 pm works: the leaves of Mount pizza lunch on the last day. Finally Surround/s offers visitors the etched to highlight the tissue transfer join Cathy Franzi for an advanced opportunity to immerse themselves in on fine lustre porcelain by Patsy Payne, throwing class held over six Friday the poetry of landscape that defines the grassy box-gum woodlands of nights. Details on our website. the Canberra region. It is an exhibition and Red Hill with native that reveals a mastery with new grass Poa Labillaardieri growing in Great Prizes! forms and maturity of talent that has stoneware by Anne Langridge. Stepping Up fundraising raffle tickets the capacity to express this poetry Melinda Brouwer’s Border captures are available from CPS. 1st Prize is a Greg Daly Platter and 2nd Prize is of the natural and inner landscape. the unique presence of Canberra and an Art of Food Film Packagage from The representation of the natural its surrounds with a three dimensional Hotel Hotel. Tickets are $10 each. environment dominates the exhibition triptych of the Brindabella Mountains. along with a few sublime references Brouwer uses oxides and glazes to Plate Auction to Marion Mahony Griffin and Walter create the haptic effect of ancient river An online auction of artists plates has Burley-Griffin’s design of Canberra boulders and the dry mossy stones just been announced on ebay as part as a bush capital. Marion has a quiet themselves surrounding Canberra of Stepping Up. Go to stepping up presence overlooking the exhibition city as a block hewn from the same fund raiser plates to make a bid. (see as a silhouette in a stamped piece by mountain. Decals and linos infuse the Opportunities on back cover) Anne Masters. city with both the spirit of Bogong Continued page 6... CanberraPotters’Society WatsonArtsCentre 1 Aspinall Street Watson, PO Box 7021 Watson ACT 2602 Like us on Facebook General Enquiries 02 6241 1670 Classes 02 6241 7800 www.canberrapotters.com.au The Canberra Potter July 2015

Board & administration Board Brad Thomas Chair Graham Durant Treasurer Cynthia Anderson Jessica Coates Greg Daly Stefanie Pidcock Kathryn Wells From the Director Education President What a month it promises to be. For the So much activity at CPS as we prepare (Members’ representative) past few issues we’ve been promoting for Stepping Up and our education Velda Hunter the Triennale and urging you all to get area is no exception. Enrolments are Administration involved. I do hope you’ve taken up now open for our Term 3 classes. Director Richard Thomas the challenge and will be experiencing A couple of new additions will be Workshop Manager Chris Harford some of the activities on offer. It will Continuing Throwing and Continuing Program Manager Sara Hogwood be hard to go out in Canberra over the Handbuilding classes. These structured Education Program Manager next few weeks without coming into courses are for newer students to Fran Romano contact with something or someone move into from the Introductory class. Education Office Assistant taking part in Triennale activities. Places for all our classes fill quickly so Bhavana Moylan To start the month CPS has thrown don’t miss out. open the doors on our major exhibition The Special Shorts this term offer some for the year—Surround/s. It emphasises challenging and fun courses too. Have the rich seam of creative ceramic a think about the gas firing course—a arts talent we have in our region. The great way to make the most of the curators, Patsy Hely and Sarah Rice, kilns we have on offer at CPS. have produced an exhibition that will Our Winter School with Ben Carter is surely excite and challenge audiences. going ahead despite the unfortunate So pleased too that our Winter School late withdrawal of Carole Epp. For with Ben Carter is going ahead. It’s those of you who know Ben’s work it important that we are providing our promises to be a great opportunity to members with classes events and expand and develop your surface skills. activities that are useful and appealing I’m excited to announce a new to you. Feel free to give us your initiative called ‘Friday Night Supper feedback and suggestions on who you’d Club’ which will happen on the like to see engaged with CPS for future last Friday evening of each month. Schools and Masterclasses—maybe Following on from, the very popular, something you experience during the recent Artist’s Talks Rick Beviss and Ian Triennale will spark a new direction and Hodgson are extending the Members The Canberra Potter is published interest for you. events idea to create a regular film and monthly February–December. It’s been a busy time around WAC discussion night over wine and cheese. too as we fare welled Michiko Takada Contributions are welcome. Juz Kitson Masterclass is coming up Please email copy and images to and welcomed our new Artsist-in- and although booked out she is happy Residence Juz Kitson and what a great the editor: Kathryn Wells to chat about her work while at CPS so [email protected] artist talk she gave last Friday night. Of pop in and say hi. course many of our studio holders are Next Newsletter Deadline involved in Stepping Up events too so 27 July 2015 the joint has been humming. Fran Romano Education Program Manager Contact us Once the (clay) dust settles on this Canberra Potters’ Society Inc huge month of ceramic arts our Watson Arts Centre focus will surely turn back to activities Aspinall St, Watson ACT ‘surrounding’ (sorry) our wonderful organisation like Open Day, Members 02 6241 1670 general enquiries and EASS Exhibitions and the Christmas 02 6241 7800 classes Fair. Until then enjoy the month ahead be involved, be inspired and most of all PO Box 7021 be creative! Watson ACT 2602 Gallery/Shop hours Richard Thomas Thursday–Sunday Director 10–4 pm ABN 65 491 135 689 2 The Canberra Potter July 2015

Soda-firing course with Maryke Henderson by Ian Hodgson Over four recent Sundays, a group From the President of six CPS members, made work for Greetings all. an experimental soda firing of our recently commissioned soda kiln, A big thank you to The Australian with instruction from and supervision Ceramics Association (TACA) and its by Maryke Henderson. The idea was membership, for recent advocacy to for each of us to make a group of test retain the Diploma in Ceramics as a pieces, using different clay bodies, stand-alone qualification. More than which we would then decorate using a 140 emails from ceramicists, suppliers, variety of slips and glazes, and galleries, educators, ceramics groups then fire. and students to Innovation Business Skills (IBSA, the national body The firing took all day on the third responsible for qualifications), put the Sunday; the others were mornings of mockers on a proposal to delete the decorating, preparing and packing the Diploma. They had proposed to only kiln, and unpacking and cleaning the offer ceramics as a specialisation within kiln ready for the next firing. the Visual Arts Diploma (with ceramics We all agreed the course was a great subjects as electives). As if! I couldn’t success – including the pizza lunch respond quickly enough in support of during the firing and Maryke’s scones TACA, as the window of opportunity for afternoon tea – and the results to respond was short. So glad that this encouraging, so much so that we have option for ceramics education stands, agreed to fire again in August. and so nice to be heard. Thanks to Maryke and the group for Image: Ian Hodgson sharing information and ideas. It’s a little too early to let the cat out of the bag, but research and development into cone 6 glazes, and clay body compatibilities is nearly complete! The launch of Deep in the Prepare for a news update very soon. Be ready to come and hear the researchers, and see the fabulous Valley of Tea Bowls colours and combinations available. What are the similarities and difference Clay can be wrought into objects that I hope that everyone is signed up to between pottery and poetry? Scottish are not there all at once either in the attend some, if not all of Stepping potter, Fergus Stewart and poet Kathy making or in the final manifestation. Up: Australian Ceramics Triennale. Kituai came to the conclusion that How they become is not necessarily This is the fourteenth Australian and an extra ‘T’ is the only difference how they were envisaged and how international ceramics conference, after discussing this question since they are seen by someone other than and right on our doorstep. This 2010 when Kathy received an ArtACT the maker and are not necessarily how not-to-be-missed event will be a funding to travel to Lochinver in the the maker sees them. Poetry is like that wonderful opportunity everyone with Scottish Highlands to sit at Fergus’ – the richness of the single word, in mud on their minds to rub shoulders wheel and discuss this even further. a combination with other rich words, with some highly respected ceramicists This collection of poetry and pots leads the mind to wandering through from all over. The shared knowledge featuring Fergus’ pottery and tanka possibilities for meaning, creating new could well change everyone’s future poetry (Japanese five line poems paths not envisaged by either the poet creations. Check the web page for used at the tea ceremony in Japan for or the reader. Combine the two and conference program and list of centuries) as well as an afterword by you have a rich source of stimulation. I associated events and exhibitions potter, Milton Moon, will be launched quote Joseph Heller, author of Cat- www.australianceramicstriennale.com. by Meredith McKinney the 22 July, 22, in a short story titled ‘The Sound au/2015/ 6.00 pm for 6.30 pm Canberra of Asthma.’ You lived intimately with Happy potting, and remember to use Potters’ Society. Everyone, especially something for a long time, certain you hot water for throwing! potters and poets, most welcome. knew what it was, and then one day it Velda Hunter Australian potter, Owen Rye, had this turned out to be something altogether President to say about Deep in the Valley of different. Tea Bowls: Owen Rye [email protected] 3 The Canberra Potter July 2015

Juz Kitson – confronting and contemplative curiosities Interview by Kathryn Wells

Juz Kitson is Artist-in-Resident at Porcelain has a strong robust quality seen as a chameleon, able to adapt Canberra Potters Society. A graduate yet it is also fragile, like human life. in any given space. At the same time of the National Art School in 2009, When it is wrapped with pelts, it gives reproduction is life-giving and this is Kitson works in Southern Ice, Limoges you a sense of warmth and security. what leads to my fascination with the and Jingdezhen porcelain as well as It is a very meditative as well, very oozy heaviness, the orifice. Yet the found natural objects, especially skulls painstaking to take the porcelain and bone is white: picked out of a swamp, and bones, as well as wool, goat, horse dip it into the wax, giving a skin surface put on an ants’ nest, cleaned and eaten and fox hair, pelts, wax, latex and silk to it and then individually planting away before it is re-contextualised. tulle. Her work focuses on the interplay hairs gives it a hybrid and out-of-world It really is working on a process of between life and death as well as being quality. It is about taking different evolution about male and female, an homage to life and beauty. It is elements and creating this pre-science being exotic but surviving. visually confronting, and exquisite at dystopian world that questions our In your works you present power the same time. own existence, to challenge people’s and sexual presence, as well as soft Your work indicates a strong perceptions visually and to take them seduction and an ethereal lightness association with the cycles of life and outside their normalities. It challenges of being. Pieces morph from shells death revealing an intimate knowledge what they think things should be in to flowers to hearts as a homage to of natural form and process. Where do terms of form, surface treatment and life, love and beauty as well as a nod you immerse yourself for inspiration in the way these objects are constructed to decay and death. How do you the natural environment and what are as well as scale. contemplate art, aesthetics and beauty some of your influences? What is your fascination between in this context? I spend a lot of time in the Australian collection and display of natural The ethereal nature of the pieces landscape, being exposed to nature specimens and how this frames the is about relationships, connecting, as well as experiencing solitude which relevance of your work? discovering, meticulously pressing gives my time to think and reflect. I As a child I collected things. I am forward, creating desire and learning find a balance between being in the visual and I want to be stimulated. The about love. In ‘Something sacred’ was stillness of the Australian landscape moment you take something out of its ‘The Pod’, at 150 kg, yet it was floating, and living with the hustle and bustle natural environment and display it then being life bearing and life giving. It in China. These polar opposites help it becomes significant. Curiosity invites was a conglomerate into one space drive my work. Since 2009 I have us to delve, to understand the hidden in which the world, the breathing was been drawn to Hill End where there inner workings of natural forms. Also captured in one moment. Beauty is in is a community of artists, musicians I have a passion and desire to focus the nature of materials, the absolute, and eccentrics. I was attracted to the anatomically. Collecting bones is the life force. Aesthetics push the barren, harsh brutality, the ruggedness different to picking up text books as boundaries and this is correlated with as well as the colours of the landscape. it is confronting us with the ideas of I feel an affinity to it, a morbid curiosity death and deconstruction. with its past, as well as being in the In your series of works ‘Changing presence of it as a place of healing. skins’ one piece represents a dominant At Hill End, I was inspired to draw, commonplace animal: the bovine. photograph and go and collect bones Yet your cow/bull is presented as an and bring them back to the studio, exotic, a rare species but pared back to becoming a bone collector. I wanted horn, skull, numerous porcelain teats to take these dead objects and give and suggestions of sexual organs on a them new life. Also, I am fascinated very large scale. What is your interest in with the Wunderkammer, the cabinet challenging curiosity about the male- of curiosities that contained objects, female dichotomy? art and relics, many undefined and I am interested in gender roles and some of them fake, a hybrid of art, merging female reproductive forms objects, memory theatre, performance as this is confronting as well as quietly and scientific study, a phenomenon enticing viewers to contemplate that began in the 1500s and became reality. The scale is important as the the precursor of the museum. centre piece of Changing Skins is six Can you explain your fascination with metres high and five metres wide. Yet both porcelain and also the found this is sublime as all of this is made up skulls, bones, goat, horse and fox fur of small things, multiples on a large and pelts, the use of wax, latex and scale, pulled back and pulled forward. glaze, and how these materials relate Working on a minute scale pushes my to one another? work to the limit. This piece can be 4 The Canberra Potter July 2015

the use of latex and resin. Also it will Dimity Kidson push idea of decay as it may only last 15 years. In creating archival quality pieces, the medium can be prescribed but you can be adamant in being different in how you arrange the media and how you create contemplation on art.

Market Place Time: 11am – 4pm Date: Sunday 12 July 2015 Venue: Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Your practice is situated on both Australia the Central Coast of NSW and Address: Parkes Place, Parkes, 2600 Jingdezchen, China and you exhibit in both countries as well as Europe. As part of Stepping Up CPS is having two tables at the Market Place. Our What is your current focus in working tables will represent the talents of our between these two studios and your Shop members and promote our shop residency at CPS? Where will you be as a wonderful ceramic art shopping heading when you leave? destination. The second table will feature After graduating, I went to Tsinghua work from our past AIR participants to University School of Art and Design highlight the wonderful array of artists as part of a three month residency that we have hosted over the last few through Arts NSW, where I worked years. The Art Market is dedicated entirely to ceramics and is presented in with leading contemporary artist Lin partnership with the National Gallery of Tianmiao who encouraged me to travel Australia, hosted in Gandel Hall. Selected to Jungdezchen, west of Shanghai. local and national artists will present This was completely absorbing as their work to ceramics enthusiasts and an ancient porcelain city and refined collectors during this exciting event. my ideas about porcelain and yet, in Visitors will be delighted with a wide creating my own ware, challenged the array of unique functional products for tradition. Establishing a studio there the home as well as stunning exhibition has taken me four years. This allows and sculptural pieces to add to their me to do quite ambitious projects collections. as when I am there I work with the Artists work for sale includes: Sandra clay, slip moulds, fire and ship. I leave Bowkett, Johanna DeMaine, Dimity them there raw for shipping to the Kidston, Girl Nomad, Mollie Bosworth, Central Coast where I can give them Cathy Franzi, Janet DeBoos and many life. Before I was at CPS, I was at more. Bundanon, then Hill End and Broken Hill. After CPS I will be at ANU for a The NGA will be offering two free guided tours of the Australian Decorative Arts at: 4-month residency before returning 12pm and 2pm. to Jingdezchen where I am going to prepare work to be put together at the Central Coast for a major exhibition in February 2016.

CPS Artist-in-Residence Program Applications close 30 November 2015 for residencies to take place July to December 2016. Our Artist-in-Residence program is open to Australian and international potters and ceramic artists. It provides an opportunity for a short- term change of environment to develop new work, change direction or simply re-invigorate through engagement with a different arts community. CPS is a not-for-profit arts organisation and an ACT Government Key Arts Organisation. The AIR program is generously supported by the ACT Government through artsACT. For more information visit: www.canberrapotters.com.au Johanna DeMaine 5 The Canberra Potter July 2015

fierce intensity of light that startles us is evident in Greg Daly’s Golden Light, a large refined bowl decorated with lustre glaze and brush work, transcending its intensity. Large scale pots from Gwenna Green offer us a glimpse of a mob of kangaroos melting into the landscape, peering out from the ethereal light anchored by their orange ochre terracotta slip under glaze, out and Melinda Brouwer, Border 2015. Ceramic, inside the pots. Stepping out from oxides, glazes, lino prints, decals. Overall the mist we discover Cathy Franzi’s 220x140x600mm. Image: Stuart Hay trio of tall willowy vessels depicting Moths and ancient fossils as she maps Banksia Woodland Post-fire using names of the high country: Snow Flats, blackened porcelain, engobe and and Bimberi, (now sgraffito, showing the land after fire, a Nature Reserve to protect highly the necessary and ancient form of significant ecosystems and habitat). managing the grassy understorey. We Mountain mist by Gail Nicholls, catch a glimpse of green glaze, new consisting of two soda vapourised life inside the vessels. Similarly Joanne glazed contemporary sculptures from Searle, in her Reflections on Tidbinbilla, Moraig McKenna, Vase, 2015. Anagama kiln local metamorphosed shale squarely with polished porcelain and stoneware offers emergent life with blackened fired porcelain. Dimensions 160x110mm situates the state of the surrounds as Image: Stuart Hay icy, wet, melting, ready to be carried inner core supporting the complex regeneration, exquisite in its detail of on the wind and rain as translucent life forms. polished lathed concentric surfaces. Is white and green droplets down The large blackened seed pod form, this what defines us in this region and the slopes. Darkness, reminiscent of regeneration our surrounds? The balance achieved after fire with its smoke fired ceramic, The energy and vibrancy of a walk with this can be found in Kelly Austin’s by Anneke Paijmans with one panel through the escarpment country is large wheel thrown bowls the size of of etched contours references both captured in a defining work Baragoot large platters in muted tones. II by Louis McCallum, nearly half a the mapping of the Canberra region Circles and plates, painted and incised, metre in height, about the diameter and the potency of the bush to decorated and transferred designs of a tree trunk, made of terracotta regenerate if we contain that mapping of courtly Europeans and non-local and stone ware that offers layers of and subdivision. The earthly presence native flora (Barbara Torkington), and light, shimmering through the depth of soil, clay and wood-fire is seen a pair of egg-beaters holding ceramic of foliage in a eucalypt forest with as singing the country in Moraig vessels (Sarit Cohen), are a foil to the leaf litter underfoot. It encourages an McKenna’s Vase fired in an Anagama three-dimensional organic forms, embrace, wanting us to peer inside to kiln at Gunning, as is Ian Jones’s work, as they hover on an end wall, of an look at the scrapings and life within. am enigmatic geometric structured vessel which questions the man-made uncertain regard. Is this the European structures emerging from presence in the landscape surrounds, the surrounds. in its knowledge of decorative arts mastery? It is a clever question More pods, ready to burst, with Shirley unearthed by curators Hely and Rice Dunn’s white raku clay, suggestive when they asked ceramic artists to of an Organic City, reflect upon the explore their surrounds. Observing this tactile fragile and enclosed surreal is the sly porcelain Foxtail III with its silk space we inhabit and where we might tulle bindings from Zoe Slee, hanging embed our souls, whereas Agnieszka at the entrance to the exhibition and Berger’s multiple acacia pods appear the playful Cattle dog by Paul Dumetz, Boundless, as about 50 of them pushing forward on its hind legs, displayed across one wall are ready to amongst its playful pack, in the centre be dispersed. Avi Amesbury’s delicate of the show. family of egg-formed porcelain vessels Louis McCallum, Baragoot II, 2015 Terracotta give us haunting shadows and light, The response of the artists to and stoneware clays, 400x510x280mm ‘surrounds’ suggests that it is the Image: the artist specks of dust, blown pollen and dirt intermingled with the settling of this surrounding natural landscape that The evocative power of eucalypts and life force. defines new forms in their works. Along with their mastery of different their status in defining our surrounds Concentric circles are an ironic joke materials and techniques, this has is seen in Maryke Henderson’s work for visitors to Canberra as well as helped create new aesthetic qualities Eucalyptus pauciflora, commonly defining its place in a valley surrounded that reflect the poetry of their known as Snow Gum or White by mountains. This is explored with the landscapes. Surround/s is an inspiring Sallee, the tallest of three at 67 cm, enclosed forms holding a sphere by reverie on poetry, landscape, ceramics with their quiet beauty, stature and Robyn Campbell in Enclose and Held, and the creative process. presence expressed in soda vapour in a vibrant solid expression of natural glazed porcelain. In contrast, the 6 The Canberra Potter July 2015

Happy 40th Diary dates July Surround/s Exhibition Birthday CPS 2—26 July by Velda Hunter CPS Triennale Major Exhibition

More than thirty cheery members CPS Winter School braved a very chilly afternoon for with Ben Carter the Canberra Potters’ Society 40th 13,14,15 July birthday celebrations. Gathered around Some spots still available! several warm fires, members enjoyed Isle 9 Exhibition a pretty sunset while sipping delicious 9—12 July mulled wine made by Ingrid Adler. At WAC in conjunction with Maryke Henderson kindly loaned her Stepping Up collection of ceramic beakers and goblets, made by famous and not-so- Western Extremities Exhibition famous Aussie potters. Maryke and her 9—12 July capable team produced multitudes At WAC in conjunction with of tasty, gourmet, wood-fired pizzas. Stepping Up Founding member Marlene Flanagan EASS 2015 Exhibition cut the celebratory birthday cake to 30 July—16 August the sounds of much laughter, singing, The annual EASS exhibition award and friendship. Thank you to everyone presented by Canberra Potters’ who participated. What a delightful Society to selected 2015 ANU occasion! Ceramics graduates. Term 3 Classes Commence 25 July—25 September Enrollments now open.

Watson Arts Centre is a Key Arts Organisation supported by the ACT government and run by Canberra Potters’ Society. We offer: Classes for children and adults across all levels of ceramic practice. Workshops, Summer Schools and Kids’ Holiday classes are available too. Studios where tenancy applications are always welcome from emerging and established ceramic artists. Too many to mention but lots of familar Artist-in-Residence program faces gathered at the CPS 40th Birthday Solstice Party. including studio and residence facilities to national and international visiting artists. Gallery hosting a ceramic focused exhibition program. Winter Fair Report Shop with a range of pottery and ceramics to suit all tastes and CPS welcomed exhibitors and visitors display, and shoppers were treated budgets. to the Winter Pottery Fair 2015 that to some very good bargains, and was held in June. There were a few there was some good sales to report The gallery and shop are open new faces among the exhibitors, – particularly on the weekends. This Thursday to Sunday 10am–4pm as well as the committed, regular regular show by Society members is and most public holidays. contributors. The quality, originality well worth an annual visit, and is a For further information on all and variety of pottery works were great opportunity for emerging potters programs, events and available outstanding as usual. It was a delight to engage in the commercial side of facilities please visit to visit the gallery to enjoy the ceramics production. Velda Hunter canberrapotters.com.au 7 The Canberra Potter July 2015

Galleries and Vipoo Srivilasa featuring Exhibitions the works of thirteen contemporary Opportunities Australian ceramicists. Surround/s random 2015 Homing— Works by Jo Victoria, Watson Arts Centre Gallery SoA Foyer Gallery Linda Davy, Sue Fisher 2 - 26 July 17 - 25 July The Front Gallery Lyneham Thurs–Sun 10am-4pm Opening 6pm Fri 17 July 7–12 July An exhibition showcasing high-level You are invited to exhibit in this Each artist has interpreted ideas of imaginative work made in Canberra random event. Cost $6 to exhibit homing through the fragility and and the surrounding region. Curated installation on Monday 13 July. For resilience of porcelain bringing their by Patsy Hely and Sarah Rice. details visit: facebook.com/randomanu own stories and practice to create a connected work, that encourages the Clunes Ceramic Award viewer to contemplate their own sense Closing dates for entries 27 July of home. To all ceramic artists. Entry forms are Claybodies: Protean now available for the 2015 award. Nishi Gallery Major prize $10,000 peoples’ 3 - 19 July choice $2,000. Mon–Fri 11am-3pm clunesceramicaward.com.au Sat–Sun 11am–4pm An exploration by nineteen ceramicists Anneke Paijmans—The Darkness Surround/s of the overall Triennale theme of— Isle 9 Stepping Up. Watson Arts Centre Gallery Clay 2620 9 - 12 July The Q Exhibition Space Thurs–Sun 10am-4pm 1 - 22 July A representative yet diverse collection Official opening Wed 1 July 6pm of innovative ceramics by nine clay Artist floor talk Thurs 16 July 11am practitioners from Tasmania. Presented Mon–Fri 10am-4pm as part of Stepping Up. Sat 10am–2pm Western Extremities An exhibition of artists Hiroe Swen, Watson Arts Centre Gallery Anita McIntyre, Maxine Price and Juz Kitson Artist Plate 9 - 12 July Christopher Harman who are current Thurs–Sun 10am-4pm or former residents of Queanbeyan. Artist Plate ebay Auction A group of eight West Australian Presented as part of Stepping Up. Here’s your chance to own a plate ceramicists exhibit works of stark The printed surface—ceramic+print thrown by Greg Daly and decorated contract during Stepping Up the Megalo Gallery by a prominent Australians including Australian Ceramics Triennale. 4 - 25 July Dr Brian Schmidt, Kate Miller-Heidke Janet DeBoos: A Survey Tue–Sat 9.30am-5pm Gareth Evans, Juz Kitson, Andrew Craft ACT Gallery Maiju Altpere-Woodhead, Elaine Farriss, Mia Wasikowska, David Pope, Until 11 July Bradley, Me; Brouwer, Michael G W Bot and Hiroe Swen. An online Tue–Fri 10-5pm Sat 12-4pm Keighery, Anita McIntyre, Katy Mutton, ebay auction will be drawn at the This exhibition focuses on the career Anna Nangle, Clarissa Regan, Mel Gala Dinner at the conclusion of the of ceramicist Janet Deboos from Robson, Fran Romano, Joanne Searle, Stepping Up conference. To place the 1960s to 2015. Curated by Peter Lia Tajcnar. a bid go to: http://www.ebay.com/ Haynes. cln/craftact/stepping-up-fundraiser- A full list of exhibitions, pop-up Choice Ceramics plates/215935308016 shows and events associated with 9–28 July (opening 9 July 6pm) the Austraian Cermaics Triennale— Tue–Fri 10am-5pm Stepping Up can be found at Sat–Sun 9am-5pm www.australianceramicstriennale. A collaboration between Beaver com.au/2015/ Sponsorship Opportunities—Canberra Potters Society is actively seeking ways to enhance exisiting sponsor relationships and to engage with new sponsors. If you would like to discuss how you might partner with CPS please contact Richard Thomas on 02 6241 1670 or [email protected]

In 2014 the Members’ Exhibition was supported by The family of the late Jane Crick