When in Canberra last week I visited the Fiona Hiscock exhibition at Beaver Galleries thanks to ANU staffer James being kind enough to deliver us (Distance Ceramics Students) to the venue. Fiona's exhibition was just lovely, I'd describe it as a modern expression of colonial concepts - handmade oversized functional pieces swathed in her delicious watercolour drawings of botanical imagery. She builds up her colours with stains and oxides achieving a soft vibrant colour wash, you know, in the way I could only dream of managing.
Check it out here http://www.beavergalleries.com.au/ It made for vigorous discussion among the students. The gallery owner Susie Beaver gave us access to the stock room allowing us to see pieces by the cream of Australian ceramic artists and I was delighted to hear a friend comment that Western Australia seems to have a lot of really great ceramists. Spot on!
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