CELSIUS A peer-reviewed bi-annual online journal supporting the disciplines of ceramics, glass, and jewellery and object design. ISSUE 1 July 2009 Published in Australia in 2009 by Sydney College of the Arts The Visual Arts Faculty The University of Sydney Balmain Road Rozelle Locked Bag 15 Rozelle, NSW 2039 +61 2 9351 1104 [email protected] www.usyd.edu.au/sca Cricos Provider Code: 00026A © The University of Sydney 2009 This work is copyright. Apart from any use permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part of this publication may be reproduced by any process, nor may any other exclusive right be exercised, without the permission of the copyright owners. Sydney College of the Arts gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the artists and their agents for permission to reproduce their images and papers. Editor: Jan Guy Publication Layout: Nerida Olson Disclaimers 1. The material in this publication may contain references to persons who are deceased. 2. The artwork and statements in this catalogue have not been classified for viewing purposes and do not represent the views or opinions of the University of Sydney or Sydney College of the Arts. www.usyd.edu.au/sca/research/projects/celsiusjournal CELSIUS A peer-reviewed bi-annual online journal supporting the disciplines of ceramics, glass, and jewellery and object design. Mission Statement The aims of Celsius are to - provide an arena for the publication of scholarly papers concerned with the disciplines of ceramics, glass and jewellery and object design - promote artistic and technical research within these disciplines of the highest standards -foster the research of postgraduate students from Australia and around the world - complement the work being done by professional journals in the exposure of the craft based disciplines -create opportunities of professional experience in the field of publication for USYD postgraduate students Editorial Board The Celsius Editorial Board advises the editor and helps develop and guide the online journal’s publication program. They will be active and informed specialists in one of the focus fields of Celsius – ceramics, glass and jewellery and object design and/or have a working knowledge of general art and craft histories and contemporary practices in Australia and/or internationally. They will be required to peer review abstracts/proposals for each issue of the journal and also completed manuscripts. The editor may also call upon guest reviewers when necessary. In the first instance it is the responsibility of the editor to ensure that the finished manuscripts accurately reflect the accepted, peer-reviewed, original abstract/proposal. Editorial Board members may, on occasion, be invited or self-nominate to be a Guest Editor of a specific issue of Celsius. Editorial Assistants will be selected by the USYD members of the Editorial Board from self-nominated USYD research students. Editorial Assistants may serve for a maximum of two terms (a term being one year). Editorial Board Jan Guy (Editor) Jan Guy is an artist and writer who graduated from the Queensland College of Art, gained an MVA at the University of Sydney. She maintains a broad practice and interest in ceramics with a specific focus on sculptural and installed works. While her personal research is presently concerned with relationships between the haptic senses and virtual spaces, she has an on-going interest in feminist art practices and craft and design theory. She has been an advocate for the growth and continuation of Australian ceramic arts through extensive writing for national journals and major exhibitions in the field including Cerebration the catalogue essay for the 2000 Australian Ceramics Association exhibition and more recently the 2006 SOFA catalogue. She has been the recipient of a National Craft Acquisition Award and her work is in the collection of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. She is presently a member of the organising committee for 1st Australian Ceramics Triennial held in Sydney 2009. Most recently she curated the international graduate exhibition titled Young Guns. George Aslanis George Asianis is the Studio Coordinator Glass & Ceramics, Department of Fine Art. He completed undergraduate studies at the Victorian College of the Arts and a PhD at Monash University in Victoria. He has been exhibiting his glass and ceramics works for over 25 years and has also curated numerous exhibitions over the last 15 years. He has had many articles written on him, and his work has appeared in numerous art journals inluding the prestigious Craft Arts International. He has also received many awards and grants for his work. And his work was shown at the 2004-2008 SOFA in Chicago. George has been a ceramics and glass lecturer for 20 years and has worked at numerous educational institutions around Victoria. His vast knowledge in the art of glass and ceramics has allowed him to supervise Masters of Fine Arts candidates working in these disciplines. Kim Dickey Currently an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Kim Dickey received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from Alfred University. From 1991 to 1994, she served as Director of Greenwich House Pottery in New York, where she curated over twenty exhibitions of contemporary ceramics. Her own work has been featured in numerous solo and group invitational shows in Germany, Japan, Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Galleries that have shown her work include Garth Clark, Jack Tilton, Pierogi, Thomas Healy, Sherry Leedy, Rule Gallery, and White Columns. Dickey has created permanent installations for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver and The Lab at Belmar and has exhibited at Mass MOCA, the Everson Museum, the American Craft Museum, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Honolulu, among others. Dickey has contributed catalogue essays for The Decades of Influence: Colorado Art since 1985 exhibition at the MCA Denver (2008), and Because the Earth is 1/3 Dirt show at the CU Art Museum (2004), and as well as to Cabinet Magazine (2001). Dr Karin Findeis Dr Karin Findeis is Studio Chair of the Jewellery & Object Studio of Sydney College of the Arts. She recently completed her doctoral studies with a thesis entitled Locating Author Jewellery: a taxonomy of contemporary objects, and a series of exhibitions culminating with samples at the Macleay Museum, Sydney in 2008. This body of research, across objects and text, Interrogates the possibilities that jewellery may hold as communicators of culture. More specifically, a focus is placed on the impacts that collecting, classification and museology have on the relationship between objects and memory in both public and private domains. Karin has been exhibiting since 1988, both in Australia and internationally. She currently holds the position of Chair of the Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia, NSW and curated the 12th International Biennial JMGA Conference 2006. In March 2010 she will present By Example: contemporary Australian jewellery at the Museum of Arts and Crafts Itami, Japan, a project co-curated with Bridie Lander. Andrew Lavery Andrew Lavery was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1973. In 1996 he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with first class Honours and in 2001 graduated with a Master of Arts by research in the faculty of Art and Design at Monash University, Melbourne. Andrew lives and works in Sydney and is currently Lecturer and Chair of the Glass Studio at Sydney College of the Arts, a faculty of the University of Sydney, Australia. Andrew’s current body of work explores contemporary Australian urban culture through an interrogation of popular and sometimes generic objects and scenes. The intentions of these works are varied, with some drawing attention to the role of memory in our perception of popular urban objects whilst other themes poke fun at idealism and popular culture in Australia. This is achieved through abstracting existing/readymade glass forms or by presenting an object in glass that is normally constructed from another, thus altering one’s perception of the object and the order in which the viewer assigns meaning to it. In an exhibition profile that spans fourteen years, Andrew has developed a significant national and international profile. His unique contribution to Australian culture has been acknowledged by funding bodies, curators, galleries and institutions and through acquisitions of Andrew’s work for public and private collections including Art Bank, The National Art Glass Collection, Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery and Coca-Cola Amatil. Andrew has received a number of significant awards including two Australia Council for the Arts grants and a scholarship to participate in a class at Pilchuck Glass School, Washington, USA. Dr. Danie Mellor Born in Mackay, Queensland, Danie Mellor has lived, worked, travelled and studied in Australia, England, Scotland and South Africa. He is an artist who has received numerous prizes and awards, and whose work encompasses and comments on the nexus of Indigenous and Western cultural frameworks through a spectrum of iconographic images. His work has been regularly shown in significant exhibitions in Australia, including Story Place Queensland Art Gallery, Primavera Museum of Contemporary Art and Culture Warriors National Gallery of Australia, and is represented in most State gallery collections within Australia, including the National Gallery of Australia and the Museum of Contemporary Art. Mellor has taught and lectured at secondary and university level, and focuses in his current role as Subject Chair in Theoretical Enquiry on lecturing and supervising graduate students at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, and is a member of the university’s Indigenous Education Advisory Group. Dr. Damon Moon Damon Moon is a potter and writer based in South Australia. His PhD thesis examined the role of Bernard Leach's 'A Potter's Book' in the development of Australian studio pottery from 1940 to 1964.