This week I was lucky to be able to attend a workshop by Vic Greenaway at Perth Studio Potters. Vic spent the day showing us and explaining to us about how to best work with Porcelain. He had hoped to demonstrate using Limoges (over $100 a bag in Perth) but we could provide some Walker's Imperial Porcelain to work with. As it turned out, the Imperial Porcelain (IP) which attains a very white fired result, was very fresh and not aged yet, so it was actually quite crumbly and very short to work with. Still, Victor ploughed on despite technical hitches and threw the most divine pieces with the Imperial, and, being the consummate professional, threw in plenty of tips and anectdotes at the same time. I will kick in in a few days with my notes to hand and mention some of those tips. After the workshop we got to visit Stafford Galleries in Forrest Street, Cottesloe where Vic's current exhibition was launched today. I soooooooo very much want to buy one or two of his pieces but - get real. I can only afford one, and I hope to make a post in a week or so showing you what I buy if I manage to score the pot I desire. Here are some pics of the freshly thrown, and slightly but BEAUTIFULLY altered vessels he made for us ...
Look at those lines aaaaaaaaaaaaah! Well! Any thrower will get it. I will come back later with some images of his current work at and the link to Stafford Galleries.
and then ... tonight we had the great pleasure of a presentation by Laura McKibbon to the StudyGroup of CAAWA (Ceramic Artists Association of Western Australia). Laura is currently the Artist In Residence at SODA (Fleur Schell's Ceramics facility in Cottesloe W.A.) shared by way of a slideshow her method of making, working, selling, collaborating (my current favourite word), check out her website http://www.culdesacdesign.com/ and I am looking forward to her sundowner opening of her exhibition of work at SODA this weekend, and 'assisting' at her forthcoming workshop at the SODA venue in Hamelin Bay W.A. on ANZAC weekend here in Oz.
