I just thought it worth mentioning that here in Western Australia we have some very capable quiet achievers among us in the ceramic community such as Njalikwa Chongwe at Zinongo Pottery in South Fremantle.
He makes and fires low fired Raku and high fired Stoneware ceramic pieces. He and his partner Jacqueline Rodrigues, set up the gallery 25 years ago. He makes beautiful colourful raku work with his own very distinctive palette and style and an online shop on his website. He was a popular demonstrator at POTOBER 2013 put on by CAAWA and has a cool channel on YouTube.
Not everything happens in Fremantle but many of us are based near there. Sandra Black and Njaliwke are in South Freo (yes we shorten the name of everything), Fleur Schell is in North Freo - (with some really exciting opportunities about to be announced soon), so is Alana McVeigh and I am just across the Swan River in East Freo. Are there no ceramists in West Freo I hear you ponder? Darl, if there are, they'll be pretty wet. West Freo is THE INDIAN OCEAN and beautiful it is too (sharks aside). See my new desktop image, by Peter Zuvela. Image source Peter Zuvela , my fave photographer.
