Ceramics
Events
Finding quotidian design joy at Melbourne Design Week
Designed to be touched, picked up and played with, ‘New/Relic’ was a Melbourne Design Week exhibition of every fixture you’ve never thought about twice.
News
Fletcher Arts October group show returns to Toorak
Held in a private Melbourne residence, Fletcher Arts’ annual exhibition unites over 30 Australian artists and designers in a setting where art meets architecture.
Events
The cultural value of craft: How craft communities strengthen regional identity
As a UNESCO Creative City of Craft and Folk Art, Ballarat is hosting Craft Lab and The Great Takeaway this month. Nicole Durling, Executive Director at Craft Victoria, tells us more.
Ideas
Stories Indesign with architect turned artist, Bruce Rowe
In this podcast episode, Timothy Alouani-Roby sat down with Bruce Rowe in Melbourne to talk about his move from professional design practice into the world of art.
People
Taking poetic license with H+O’s Elisa Ossino and Josephine Akvama Hoffmeyer
H+O’s ceramic practice is a wild exploration of surface and colour, feeding into interior concepts that plunge us deep into the sight, sound and taste of a space.
Events
Book review: Earth & Fire, the timeless fundamentals of working with clay
A new – and beautiful – book written by Kylie and Tiffany Johnson takes an in-depth look at ceramics and the work of the artist from clay to kiln. Covering a wide variety of artists, Earth & Fire also ranges from porcelain and sculpture to everyday functional pieces.
Events
Paper & Clay: “Timeless materiality” on show at Arthouse Gallery’s latest exhibition
Paper & Clay brings the work of 29 Australian artists working in the enduring fields of clay and paper, together with the exceptional Maiori ‘Huggy’ collection of furniture by designer Antonie Lesur.
Events
Museum of Brisbane is collecting ceramics with a new artist-driven clay exhibition
Celebrating 60 years of clay-making in Brisbane, Clay: Collected Ceramics is more than just an exhibition of pots. It will be the museum’s largest artist-sourced display to date, bringing together a wide range of artists.
News
Good finds – we’ve uncovered this ceramic hotspot in Collingwood
Quench your creative appetite with this new retail destination in Collingwood, Melbourne, where ceramics are the main focus.
Events
Indigenous Ceramic Award at Shepparton Art Museum
Shepparton Art Museum is about to host the 2022 Indigenous Ceramic Award, 8 October from 4:30pm.
Articles
The captivating beauty of Piero Lissoni’s Prism Collection
Now available from Rocks On, the Prism collection of porcelain and ceramic surfaces, by Italian designer Piero Lissoni, adds a touch of elegance and sophistication to interior spaces with its refined colour palette and functional benefits.
Project
No longer memories past: Woods Bagot’s Next Hotel Melbourne
Woods Bagot serves up the nostalgia of ‘now’ at Melbourne’s new Next Hotel.
People
Indesign Luminary: Pip Drysdale
Australia has produced some fine ceramicists, but none has achieved the international prominence of Pip Drysdale, which makes her an Indesign Luminary alumni.
People
Five minutes with … Bruce Rowe of Anchor Ceramics!
Founder of Anchor Ceramics, Bruce Rowe, supports a new generation of designers working with one of the world’s oldest materials: clay and ceramics.