OFF SUBJECT: I'm Down With You: An Inspired Journey (Excerpt)

Julia Galloway

'I make pottery.

I am committed to the daily act of making beautiful objects
and insistent about creating with my hands.
A need for beautiful domestic objects and an instinctual
drive to create things, are tremendous dance partners
for idea and desire. "

 Is that not the most succinctly put reason d'etre for a potter?  on Julia Galloway's website

http://www.juliagalloway.com/home.html 

I love other people's blogs ..

I subscribe to many blogs, they take you to such interesting places .. this one http://australianpottery.wordpress.com/
has taught me a lot about Australian Pottery.  Today it tells of some new Janet de Boos work which I find very exciting and inspiring at this beautiful gallery http://www.narekgalleries.com

I won't put a photo in yet though until the gallery gives me permission, soon I hope, but you can click on http://www.narekgalleries.com/current_exhibition.htm to see for yourself.

c-urchin on Flickr.com

41-365, originally uploaded by c-urchin.

I keep coming back to her work again and again. if you aren't familiar with Flickr - it is an online photo sharing site, and you will get utterly lost there. Lots of artists, not just photographers, share images of their work this way.

CONNECTED

Since last we met I've completed my distance studies at ANU in Ceramics and become the Editor of PYRE newsletter for Ceramic Arts Association of WA (CAAWA).  Despite labouring with a stubborn cold like most of Perth, I managed to complete some new work for Clay Feet's exhibition CONNECTED at Mundaring Art Centre, WA  http://www.mundaringartscentre.com/.
 I love this gallery and shop which I pass often en route to York for a weekend away.  The range and quality of work by WA artists, many local, is very, very high.  I noticed that a lot of the work within is nature inspired, including birds and nests, seen in work by Madeleine Clear (oils)  http://www.madeleineclear.com/Home.html  and Moira Court http://moiracourt.wordpress.com/.

Here are some of my more recent pieces including some hanging wall boxes which act as a clay canvas for my collage-like decoration.

I will show work by the rest of Clay Feet Exhibiting Group as their pix arrive in my mail box for the Clay Feet Blog http://clayfeetpotters.blogspot.com/