The Journal of Australian Ceramics

Volume 40 No. 2 - Jun 2001

2001 National education edition

Toni Warburton - The Stamp of One Foot Dancing - p8

Toni Warburton reviews the ceramic sculpture installation by Kyong Hee Kim following her residency at Sturt Craft Centre, Mittagong

Graduate Student Pictorial Survey - p13

Images from graduating students of colleges and universities across Australia

Stephen Hudson - Endings and Beginnings - p35

Stephen Hudson talks about the last exhibition at the Ceramic Studio, School of Art Hobart, University of Tasmania before its closure

David Hume - Earth Unplugged - p36

David Hume reviews an exhibition of students from the Centre for the Arts, Hobart, at Entre Pot Gallery

Amanda Watson-Will - Celebrating Nature - One Year On - p38

Amanda Watson-Will profiles the work of Queensland ceramist Julie Shepherd

Elizabeth Low - Please Touch - p40

Elizabeth Low reviews ‘Please Touch’, an exhibition of tactile ceramic works by RMIT students, held at the RMIT Arts Union’s First Site Gallery

Jeff Doyle - Gestures Towards Desirable Objects - p42

Jeff Doyle profiles the sculptural figures made by ceramist Hazel Fielding

Beth Hatton - Craft Australia - Representing Australian Creativity - p45

Beth Hatton talks about Craft Australia and its involvement in ceramics exhibtitions and programs in Australia and internationally

Paul Dagarin - TAFE NSW Arts & Design Prize 2000 - p46

Paul Dagarin reports from the TAFE NSW Arts & Design Prize 2000

Ellin Pooley - Port Hacking Potters Group - p47

Ellin Pooley reports from the Port Hacking Potters’ Group’s 39th annual pottery competition and exhibition, held at the Hazelhurst Arts Centre in Gymea

Bernard Kerr, Leanna Taylor - Is The Dinner Party Dead? - p48

Bernard Kerr and Leanna Taylor talk about the upcoming event ‘Is the Dinner Party Dead?’, a series of workshops and an exhibition focused on the relationship between food and ceramics, held at the Western Australian School of Art, Design and Media in Perth WA

Michelle Macbeth - Experiment and Enjoy - p51

Michelle Macbeth talks about her experience experimenting with glazes

Petra Svoboda - Earth, Soil, Mud, Clay - Processing Progression - p52

Petra Svoboda talks about the effect on ash glazes when wood fired

Gudrun Birbeck - Into the Blue - p54

Gudrun Birbeck talks about the development of a Cornish Stone based blue glaze

Julie Woinarski - Cracked Earth - p55

Julie Woinarski talks about developing dry glazes

Jodie Maree Phelan - Firing in a Saggar - p56

Jodie Maree Phelan talks saggar firing

Bernd Weise - No Great Glaze - p57

Bernd Weise, teacher of ceramics at the Goulburn Campus of the TAFE NSW Illawarra Institute, talks about the Goulburn students’ different methods to constructing ceramic forms and surfaces

Junko Asaba - Origami Ceramics - p58

Junko Asaba talks about her technique of ‘origami ceramics’, in which she dips folded Japanese paper into slip

Anne Cliff - Wheels at the Roundhouse - p60

Anne Cliff reports on Elizabeth Currie’s involvelment in the project to produce work for the Centenary of Federation

Jo Barrie - One for the Pot - p62

Jo Barrie reports from the fourh annual exhibition of teapots at the Old Bakery on 8th Gallery, Maylands WA

Billy Middlehurst - An Australian Journey - p64

Billy Middlehurst talks about her travels through rural Australia, exploring the different ceramics cultures

John Massy - Ceramics in Cultural Context - p66

John Massy reports on the Pottery in Australia Japanese Pottery Workshop and Tour 2000

Ben Richardson, Venla Vaisanen - Northern Spirit - Southern Fire - p68

Ben Richardson and Venla Vaisanen report on n exchange program between the Ceramics Research Unit at the Centre for the Arts in Hobart and the Arabia factory in Helsinki, Finland

Megan Patey - Postcard on Education - p70

Megan Patey reports from Clayfeast, a forum exploring educational issues held at Gulgong NSW

Frances Morgan - Well Read - p72

Frances Morgan reviews ‘Clay: A Studio Handbook’, by Vince Pitelka

Anand Sheth - Q & A - p74

Anand Sheth answers readers’ questions on spodumene in clay bodies

Ann Storey, Jane Crick, Lone White, Margaret Hornbuckle, Stephanie Outridge-Field - Australia Wide - p75

Reports on ceramics activities, events and exhibitions from all states of Australia

National News - p78

Event, exhibition and competition news from around Australia