Category Archives: Creative

Expressive decorative rhythms in ceramic art

 

 

Chain-Reaction,-2023

John Newdigate

Chain Reaction-2023

 

Aire Goutt --Spring Forest ceramic bowl

Aire Goutt –‘Spring Forest’

 

 

 

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‘Broken Circle’  — M E Taylor Ceramic

 

 

A jug, compressed ovoid glazed earthenware jug with hand-modelled and underglaze painted decoration of a windswept tree landscape, incised Merric Boyd 1937

Compressed ovoid glazed earthenware jug with hand-modelled and underglaze painted decoration of a windswept tree landscape, incised.

Merric Boyd, 1937

 

 

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Orchids dancing in my neighbours herb garden

 

Nature inspired decorative rhythms

 

Nature is blessed with both predictable and chaotic rhythms, which is highly fortunate because our very survival depends upon it. We are presented with daily vistas that show perpetual motion through the movement of light, shadows, currents, waves, breezes and a myriad of natural kinesis. Shape, colour and perspective are continually stimulated to reveal a sublimity of designs and it’s easy to see why many artists have expressed how they are deeply influenced by the innate beauty and rhythms of nature.

The symbiosis between the artist and the natural world is obvious and the constant flux of the elements is forever feeding this lively dynamic. From sunrise to dawn, throughout the changing seasons, a vast array of colours and moods all contribute to this inspiration and it’s remarkable how we are gifted with such a rich display of natural art. Its easy to grasp why the forces of nature are often referenced as a source of inspiration to artists.. Patterns, textures, form, colours, light and shade are all used to reflect movement and its associated rhythms.

 

 

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Handpainted Polish MCM porcelain plate

 

 

 Jung claimed that nature is a symbol of spirit while the philosopher Thomas Aquinas observed that the divine reveals itself in nature. Pythagoras of Samos (570-495BC) stated that there is geometry in the humming of strings, there is music in the spacing of spheres.”

The elemental Chineses Animals are on a 60 year rotation so the last time we had the very feminine Water Rabbit leading into the creatively potent Wood Dragon was 1963/64. That era was an extraordinary time of emboldened artistic flow and innovation, introducing new rythyms, both musically and visually.

  This post will be an exploration of art that might be again alluding to that exceptional direction of lively rythyms in design and structure with soul enriching art, similtaneously considering the influence of the rhythms of the natural world in decorative choices.

 

Anna V Freeman

Anna V Freeman — monumental vase

XYLEM II

 

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‘Dancing with a free spirit’ — Liselotte Watkins

 

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Vincent Schoepfer ceramics

 

 

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Vase by Lindstrand for Orrefors

 

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A1 enhanced fashion image, a recent paradigm shift in art expression.  A1erama adaption of composite photoshopping.

 

 

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Peaceful cloud textures

 

 

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Barbara Chadwick

 

Julie Woods-'My Grandmothers Country

Julie Woods – ‘My Grandmothers Country’

Australia’s indigenous inhabitants sometimes deliberatly walk lightly on the ground, their gentle steps being a display of their recognigition of the perfection of our earth and its elements and the contribution it makes to maintaining the balance between strength and vulnerability, while sustaining the natural order.

They revered their ‘Country’ as a living entity, which sustains all life and exists as a product of their Creator Ancestors.

 

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For me, one of the creative highlights of this year  was when a Matchstick Plant I was gifted with, unexpectingly bloomed into a triumpant, vibrantly pink and purple Bromeliad, which I had bever seen before.

 

 

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Another was the arrival of a Huntswoman with her silk sack of spiders on the canvas blind outside my window. She stayed there for 21 days with dedicated devotion and didn’t even leave them for feeding herself. This was followed by witnessing the arrival of 34  babies out of the silk. All up about a 7 week gestation.

 

 

Joshua-Tobey King Of Jacks

Joshua Tobey — King Of Jacks bunny creations

 

 

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Cat lover sweater pullover

 

 

Steve-Smith-Piece-21-scaled

Steve Smith vase

 

 

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Boho  flair and flamboyamt floral flirtations raged in the 60’s The floral aesthetic featured strongly with the Flower Power designs attempting to introduce more gentleness as a counter balance to the harshness of war. I’m wondering whether we will see a new type of kombucha kindness manifesting against the current turmoil.

 

 

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Melting floral tie-dye inspired  Fall/Winter Collina Strada 2024 collection

 

 

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Large cloisonné enamel jar and cover  The slightly faceted sides of the globular body decorated with battling phoenix and dragon

Meiji period

 

 

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Spring liberation of the Almond Blossom — Vincent van Gogh

 

 

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The launching of a hot air balloon in Brazil

 

 

 

Ben Gufford

Ben Gufford

 

 

Bruno Brunetti---La Cava

Vintage Bruno Brunetti — La Cava

 

 

 

Ceramic ‘Dogfish’ 

Revisited 60s style funk music was used for this video

Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery!

 

 

Bulbous french art deco porcelain red & orange stork vase

Bulbous French art deco, porcelain red & orange Stork vase

 

 

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Ewer in the form of a dragon ca. 1600 Italian, probably Urbino

 

 

Carolyn Genders

Carolyn Genders

 

 

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Hand painted MCM Polish porcelain tri legged fruit bowl

 

 

 Porelain vase from Chenlu, China---Silktravels

Porcelain vase from Chenlu, China—Silktravels

 

 

 

Mata Ortiz Nicolas Quezada † Magnificent Olla Redish Brown-or-Orange-Terracota

Nicolas Quezada — Olla Redish Brown

Mata Ortiz

 

 

Celadon Bakji Tea Bowl -- Ben Gufford

Celadon Bakji Tea Bowl — Ben Gufford

 

 

bulbous vase by Charles Catteau for Boch Freres Keramis

Bulbous art deco vase by Charles Catteau for Boch Freres Keramis

 

 

Kangaroo-paw-in-sea-of-rpsmary

Anigozanthos ‘Kangaroo Paw’  displaying natures decorative rythym in a vivid orange

 

 

Clarrice Cliff Solitude 360 vase

Clarice Cliff  ‘Solitude’ 360 vase

 

 

 

Cobalt Aynsley English Bone China Hand Painted Butterfly Tea Cup and Saucer Set

Cobalt Aynsley English Bone China Hand Painted Butterfly Tea Cup and Saucer Set

 

 

Cody Hoyt asymmetrical vessel

Cody Hoyt asymmetrical vessel

 

 

colorful-bird

Tufted coquette hummingbird—diversity of design from Mother Nature

 

 

Craig Medson

Craig Medson sculpture

 

 

 

Hungarian Mid Century black and white dual vase

Hungarian Mid Century black and white vase

 

 

Manyosai-Shinoglaze--Vase-by-Hayashi-Shotaro

Shino glaze Vase by Hayashi Shotaro

 

 

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Catherine White

 

 

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Ceramic collection of George Lin

 

 

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Recently acquired Red Cloud dragon vase. Typically, the majority of dragon illustrations display dramatic movement to invite the flow of luck.

Yuan dynasty (1279–1368)

2024 is a Wood Dragon Year  — height 17.3 inches

 

 

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Melanie Ferguson

 

 

Adam and Eve Vase

 

Adornos Para Casa Abstract Minimalist Ceramic Bud Vase

Adornos Para Casa — Abstract Minimalist Ceramic Bottle Vase

 

 

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Jeti Ögüz rocks, Issyk Kul Region of Kyrgyzstan

 

 

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Fabienne Fauvel vase

 

 

 Pueblo Pottery Native American Art including Hopi, Maria Martinez black pots

Hopi, Maria Martinez black pot

 

Jean Mayodon vessel with decoration of sailboats

 

 Merlin Cohen Neo Rhapsody from Canadian Chlorite

Merlin Cohen —  ‘Neo Rhapsody’ sculptured from Canadian Chlorite

 

 

 

Portuguese vintage vase

Portuguese vintage vase

 

 

Nightingale vase Carlton Ware

Nightingale vase — Carlton Ware

 

 

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Maureen Williams — ‘Altered Landscape’

 

 

Natasha-Dikireva--Ganesha-for-Ukraine

Natasha Dikireva — Ganesha for Ukraine

 

 

 

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Elizabeth Raeburn vessel – ‘Strata Bridge’

 

 

Art Nouveau style vase, 1905 1910, earthenware, height 30 cm, Egisto Fantechi manufacture, Sesto Fiorentino, Tuscany, Italy, 20th century

Art Nouveau style vase, 1905/1910, earthenware, height 30 cm,

Egisto Fantechi manufacture by Sesto Fiorentino,

Tuscany, Italy, 20th century

 

 

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Ros Auld  –‘Escarpment’

Her sculptural and functional work is informed by the dynamic forces, surface textures and subtle colours of the Australian landscape.

 

 

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Mid century ceramic jug, vintage gold lava vase

 

 

Mid Century Italian Pottery Vase Orange by Bitossi

Orange Mid Century Italian Vase by Bitossi

 

 

Tsukamoto-Haruhiko sake set

Tsukamoto Haruhiko sake set

 

 

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Cat visiting Koi pond

 

 

Flying to the Inside Green Blue

Judith Ernst – ‘Flying to the Inside’ Green/Blue

 

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Gambone Guido – ceramic rooster

1959

 

Goro Suzuki ceramic vessel

Goro Suzuki ceramic vessel

 

 

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Ros Auld – ‘Incandescense’

‘I aim to express both the power and fragility of nature using materials from the earth, with an interplay between the monumental forms and delicate, complex surface textures.

Landscape is my source; more the accumulation of recollected impressions than particular sites: the weathered surfaces, textures and subtle colours of the Australian bush and patterns in the cultivated landscape.

 

 

 

Zsa Zsa - Suzy Birstein

Zsa Zsa – the creative freedom of Suzy Birstein

 

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Aire Goutt sculptural vessel

 

 

 

Hakeme Henko Pottery Vase by Yagi Kazuo

Vase by Yagi Kazuo

 

 

Handmade pottery vase Pottery Pappas

Pottery Pappas

 

 

Helen-Fuller cubist styled decoration

Helen Fuller cubist styled decoration

 

 

Hori Ichirō japanese pottery

Hori Ichirō

 

Balanced rock photo Carol Highsmith

Balanced rock — photo Carol Highsmith

 

 

Ingrid Saag

Ingrid Saag nude figure vessel

 

 

James Whiting

James Whiting

USA

 

 

Hee Kyoung

Hee Kyoung

 

 

Japanese-Sumida-Pottery-Koko

Japanese Sumida Ware Vase With Two Men on Rocky Ledge by Inoue Ryosai II

 

 

Jar with white slip and connected ridge design

Jar with white slip and connected ridge design

 

 

Jena Bedson ceramics

Jena Bedson ceramics

 

 

BOMATY Gogyo Shino Ware Tea Bowl,

BOMATY Gogyo Shino Ware Tea Bowl,

 

 

Jill Rosenwald Vase--

Jill Rosenwald Vase

circa 1980’s.

 

Jitka Palmer jug

Jitka Palmer jug

 

 

Judi Tavill Ceramics..

Judi Tavill Ceramics

 

 

Kakurazaki Ryuichi lidded vessel

Kakurazaki Ryuichi — bizen ware lidded vessel

 

 

Kei Mindscape by Ken Mihara

‘Kei Mindscape’ by Ken Mihara

 

 

Kosta-Wedding-Bertil-Vallien-vase-Centilop

Vintage vase by Bertil Vallien

 

 

Jun Kaneko

Jun Kaneko

 

 

Kyle Scott Lee

Kyle Scott Lee

 

 

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NAKADA Masaru — “SEN”

 

 

ES Keramik Vase West German Pottery Mid Century Modernist Fat Lava 20cm

ES Keramik Vase West German Pottery Mid Century Modernist Fat Lava

height 20cm

 

 

Lemaire Gregoire

Lemaire Gregoire

 

Lesley Baker -- Fly On Wall

Lesley Baker — ‘Fly On Wall’

 

 

Ken abd Tina Riesterer-2021Hold-On-To-Peace-Vase

 

Ken abd Tina Riesterer – ‘Hold On To Peace Vase’

2021

 

 

Wollumbin National Park summit, also known as Mount Warning

Wollumbin National Park summit, also known as Mount Warning

The summit is famous for being the first location on the Australian East Coast to see the sunrise each day.

 

 

Mount-Warning

Sacred Mount Warning

 

 

Palm-Blossom--vase

Palm Blossom vase

 

Paul-Evans

Paul Evans — ‘Onion’

ca. 1960s,

 

Paul Soldner-Wood Fired Ceramic Vessel

Paul Soldner – Wood Fired Ceramic Vessel

 

 

Vintage Vallauris sailing yacht set

Vintage Vallauris sailing yacht set — Tess Ceramique

 

 

Peter-Voulkos-Coffee-Pot-ca

Peter Voulkos Coffee Pot

 

 

Pottery-Art-by-Jose-Reyes-Martinez-of-San-Juan-de-Oriente-in-Nicaragua

Jose Reyes Martinez

San Juan de Oriente in Nicaragua

 

 

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Marlize Myburgh

 

 

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Geoffroy Pascal

 

 

 

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Charles Catteau —  ceramic vessel with stylized floral motifs

 

 

Rebecca Hillman

Rebecca Hillman vase juxtaposed against idyllic background

 

 

Rupert-Andrews-Pottery

Rupert Andrews

 

 

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‘Forms Within’ — Eiko Kishi

 

 

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Vincent Schoepfer

 

 

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Wada Morihiro

 

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Marcello Fantoni

 

 

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Yoko Imada, ‘Sei’ (Purity)

 

JOHN MALTBY large stoneware spade vase, stylised landscape decoration with bird flying

John Maltby — large stoneware spade vase, stylised landscape decoration with bird flying

 

 

 

Zsolnay Vase with Bird and Flower Decor

Zsolnay Eosin glaze vase with Bird and Flower Decor

 

 

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Lithuanian ceramicist Ula Sukyte

 

 

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Annual Australian Ceramic Open Studios event

 

 

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Full listing here —  ceramic artists having an Open Studio

 

 

This weekend is your opportunity to purchase handmade pottery wares directly from the studio and make a connection with the ceramic creator. Witness the inner workings of their craft production and artistic flair.

 

Free Adnission

10am till 4pm

Australian ceramic artists and studio locations:

 

 

Maricelle-Olivier

Maricelle Olivier

1 Aspinall Street, Watson, ACT 2602

 

 

Mike-Hall-

Mike Hall

58 Florence Terrace, Scotland Island, NSW

 

 

MY-Studio-–-Ian-Hodge

MY Studio-–-Ian Hodge

4 Cherry Grove, Donvale, VIC 3111

 

 

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‘Neo Ceramics’ – Jack Balfour

247 Abbotsford Street, North Melbourne, Victoria

 

 

 

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Jack Balfour

 

John-Balfour

Jack Balfour

 

 

Nic-Auton-–-Legend-Pottery

Nic Auton – ‘Legend Pottery’

10 Reid Avenue, North Curl Curl, NSW 2099

 

Njalikwa-Chongwe-–-Zinongo-Studio pottery

Njalikwa Chongwe -–- Zinongo Studio

47 Lefroy Road, Beaconsfield, WA 6162

 

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Njalikwa Chongwe mug

 

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Njalikwa Chongwe

 

 

 

Ochre

Ochre

44 Main Arm Road, Mullumbimby, NSW

 

 

Cara-Kushlin-–-Day-Studio

Cara Kushlin-–-Day Studio

183A Waverley Road, Malvern East, VIC 3145

 

 

Cathy-Franzi

Cathy Franzi

18 Kerferd Street, Watson, ACT 2602

 

 

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Cathy Franzi

 

Red-Kangaroo-Paw

Cathy Franzi

 

 

Ceramic-Ocean-–-Brett-Smout

‘Ceramic Ocean’ -–- Brett Smout

126 Duntroon Street, Hurlstone Park NSW

 

 

Claudia-De-Salvo

Claudia De Salvo

142 Birds Road, Guanaba QLD 4210

 

 

Clay Canoe

Clay Canoe

33 Yule Road, Merewether, NSW 2291

 

 

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Clay Canoe

 

Clay Ground studio

Clay Ground studio

601 Botany Road, Rosebery, NSW

 

 

Dannielle Wilkinson-–-Dusty Pots

Dannielle Wilkinson –- ‘Dusty Pots’

1 Maldon Road, Castlemaine, VIC 3450

 

 

Elnaz Nourizadeh

Elnaz Nourizadeh

62 Newlands Road, Coburg North,, VIC 3058

 

 

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Elnaz Nourizadeh

 

Evelyn Alvarez -- Alvarez Visual Art

Evelyn Alvarez — ‘Alvarez Visual Art’

4 Hyman Street, North Tamworth,, NSW

 

 

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Evelyn Alvarez

 

 

Grace Chaplin -–- Muckware

Grace Chaplin -–- ‘Muckware’

853 Hinterland Way, Newrybar, NSW 2479

 

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Muckware

Plate with ash fired glaze and eggs on toast

 

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Muckware Studio

 

 

Lee Anne Peters

Lee Anne Peters

9 New Street, Campbell Town, Tasmania 7210

 

 

Heather Gandy-–-Potable Pottery Heather Gandy-–-‘Potable Pottery’

138B Wallington Road, Ocean Grove, VIC 3226

 

 

Jen Lyall

Jen Lyall

2 Ben Bullen Road, Glenorie, NSW 2157

 

 

Pink Ember Studio

Pink Ember Studio

22 Allenby Street, Coburg North, VIC

 

Rainforest Ceramics

Rainforest Ceramics

56 Gittoes Lane, Possum Creek, NSW 2479

 

 

Richard Newton Potter

Richard Newton Potter

62 The Bulwark, Castlecrag, NSW 2068

 

 

Ronelle Clarke

Ronelle Clarke

28 Briarwood Street, Carindale, QLD 4152

 

 

Sasa Scheiner

Sasa Scheiner

878 Binna Burra Road, Federal, NSW 2480

 

 

Jane-Annois

Jane Annois

109 Kangaroo Ground-Warrandyte Road, North Warrandyte VIC 3113

 

Cindy Tong Ceramics

Cindy Tong Ceramics

189 Foster Street (Corner Barkly Street), Sale, Victoria
Entry and parking via Barkly Street to avoid traffic from Foster Street

 

 

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Cindy Tong Ceramics

Thrown on the wheel and decorated with coral, yellow ochre and slate slip then carved with an illustration of the banskia flower and pod

 

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Sonali Patel-The Dreamer_

Sonali Patel – ‘The Dreamer’

Saint Peters, South Australia 5069

 0438639856

 

Jean McGhee Ceramics

Jean McGhee Ceramics

5 Syme Street, South Hobart, Tasmania 7004

 

 

Liz Izquierdo pottery

Liz Izquierdo

Unit 1
10 Stanton Road
Tingalpa QLD 4173

 

 

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Josephine Powell

106 Reynard Street, Coburg, Victoria

 

 

Josephine Powell

Josephine Powell

 

 

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Josephine Powell

 

 

Madeleine Meyer

Madeleine Meyer

72 Bega Street
Tathra NSW 2550

 

 

 Pottery Penny

Pottery Penny

5 Burreel Avenue
Elsternwick VIC 3185

 

Peter Wilson-–-Rosemont Pottery

Peter Wilson-–-Rosemont Pottery

131 Gilmour Street
Kelso NSW 2795

 

Dawn Vachon

Dawn Vachon — A peek into the studio, pots for sale (firsts and seconds), and perhaps a refreshment.

8 Patterson Street
Coburg VIC 3058

 

Chris Johnson

Chris Johnson –Place Matters Studio

‘Always with clay beneath my feet – and often under my fingernails’

‘This is about connections – to land and the joy of making’

 

10 McMillan Road, Green Gully, VIC 3462

 

 

 

More ceramic artists with open studios at Australian Ceramics Community with extra contact details

 

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— Includes 214 studios and location map

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Japanese Ceramic – London exhibition

 

 

Japanese Ceramic – London exhibition

 

Morihiro-Wada,-Vase,-1987

Morihiro Wada, Sculptural Vase

 

Erskine Hall & Coe

 

Japanese Ceramics, an exhibition featuring over thirty ceramic works by classic artists.

Rie Aizawa, Kenji Hara, Ryūichi Kakurezaki, Shoji Kamoda, Yasuhisa Kohyama, Ryoji Koie, Shozo Michikawa, Machiko Ogawa, Mineo Okabe, Suzuki Osamu, Hayato Sawada, Keiichi Shimizu, Iwao Shinno, Miki Tomii, Shiro Tsujimura, Morihiro Wada

Including emerging artists Miki Tomii and Rie Aizawa, both of whom are represented for the first time in the UK.

 

 

20 September – 5 October 2023

Tuesday to Saturday, 11:30am – 5:00pm

15 Royal Arcade,
28 Old Bond Street,
London

+44 (0) 20 7491 1706

[email protected]

web – ehc.art

 

 

Rie Aizawa, - Sarai no Ao,

Rie Aizawa, – Sarai no Ao

50.5 x 63 x 33.5 cm

 

 

Blue ash glaze tea bowl, 2022Machiko Ogawa

Blue ash glaze tea bowl, 2022  — Machiko Ogawa

 

 

Cup and saucer, 2008 -- Shozo Michikawa

Shozo Michikawa —  Cup and saucer, 2008

 

 

Fukinotou,-2023 Miki Tomii

Miki Tomii — Fukinotou, 2023

 

 

Hayato-Sawada-0-

Hayato Sawada — Tri legged ceramic ‘Guinomi’, 2016

 

 

Keiichi-Shimizu-KSH-0001-original

Keiichi Shimizu

Glazed stoneware vase, 37 x 12.2 x 15 cm

 

 

Kenji Hara Kiseto Dohimo Chawan, 2018

Kenji Hara  — Kiseto Dohimo Chawan, 2018

 

 

Machiko-Ogawa

Machiko Ogawa – stoneware Tea Bowl

2020

 

 

Mineo-Okabe

Mineo Okabe — ‘Flower shaped bowl’ c. 1963

 

 

Anagama fired stoneware, 26 x 20 x 10 cmSuemono, 2017 Yasuhisa Kohyama

Yasuhisa Kohyama — ‘Suemono’, 2017

Anagama fired stoneware, 26 x 20 x 10 cm

 

Shuka no Tsuki (Summer Moon)

Suzuki Osamu — ‘Shuka no Tsuki’ (Summer Moon)

 

 

Small celadon cup - Iwao Shinno

Iwao Shinno — Small celadon cup

 

 

stoneware-with-ash-glaze-and-feldsparShiro-Tsujimura--Sake-bottle-and-cup,-1993--

Shiro Tsujimura–Sake bottle and cup, 1993

stoneware with ash glaze and feldspar, Height: 16.5 cm

 

 

Tea-bowlryoji-koie

Tea bowl — ‘Ryoji Koie’

 

Yasuhisa Kohyama -- Tokkuri and Guinomi, 2019

Yasuhisa Kohyama — Tokkuri and Guinomi, 2019

 

 

Shozo Michikawa

Shozo Michikawa

 

 

Shiro Tsujimura

Shiro Tsujimura — ‘Moon Vase’

stoneware, 21.6 x 20.3 cm

Provenance: Estate of the late Diego Cortez

 

 

Ryūichi KakurezakiUna Mistura vase, 2018

Ryūichi Kakurezaki — Una Mistura vase

2018

 

Ryūichi Kakurezaki, Flower vase, bizen type, 1999

Ryūichi Kakurezakim — Flower vase, bizen type

1999

 

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Ryoji Koie tea bowl

 

 

Ryoji Koie Container stoneware, 15.9 x 18

Ryoji Koie — ‘Container’ stoneware

15.9 x 18cm

 

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Ryoji Koie

Tea Bowl stoneware, 7.3 x 15.2 cm

 

Machiko Ogawa White tea bowl,-2023

Machiko Ogawa White tea bowl,-2023

 

 

Machiko-Ogawa-

Machiko Ogawa — Stoneware Platinum small bowl

 

 

Suzuki-Osamu-Kumo-no-Kagami-(Mirror-of-Cloud)

Suzuki Osamu — ‘Kumo no Kagami (Mirror of Cloud)’

 

 

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EHC Gallery

 

 

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Generations Of Clay — Southern California

 

Generations Of Clay exhibition

 

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A gallery show featuring the works of generations of  Southern California artists.

Featured Artists

Peter Voulkos, Harrison McKintosh, Jerry Rothman, Otto and Vivika Heino, Beatrice Wood, Vincent Suez, Karen Thayer, Randall Au, Mark Messenger, Marsha Judd, Patrick Crabb, Kathryn Stovall Dennis, John Meulmester, Young Shin Kim, Richard Shaw

 

The Muckenthaler Cultural Center | 714-738-6595 | info@themuck.org 1201 W. Malvern Ave, Fullerton, CA
3d August to 29th September

instagram – @muckcc

 

 

 

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John Meulmester  —  ‘Coil Pots Tall and Short’

 

 

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John Meulmester

 

 

John-Muelmuster---Coil-Pot

John Meulmester

 

Kathryn Stuall Dennis

Kathryn Stuall Dennis

 

Kathryn-Stualll-Dennis (2)

Kathryn Stuall Dennis

 

Kathryn-Stualll-Dennis

Kathryn Stuall Dennis

 

 

Budapest Mark Messenger

‘Budapest’ – Mark Messenger

 

 

Halo - Mark Messenger

‘Halo’ – Mark Messenger

 

 

Beatrice Wood ceramic bowls

Beatrice Wood

 

 

Harrison Mckintosh

Harrison Mckintosh

 

 

Karen Thayer

Karen Thayer

 

 

 

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Karen Thayer

 

 

Patrick Crabb

Patrick Crabb

 

 

 

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Marsha Judd

 

 

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Marsha Judd

 

 

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Otto and Vivika Heino

 

 

 

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‘Radiant Angels’ — Mark Messenger

 

 

Mark Messenger ceramic art

Mark Messenger

 

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Mark Messenger

 

 

Patrick Crabb

Patrick Crabb

 

 

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Patrick Crabb

 

 

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Patrick Crabb

 

 

Randall Au

Randall Au

 

 

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Randall Au

 

Randall-Aue

Randall Au

 

 

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Young Shiu Kim

 

 

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Young Shiu Kim

 

 

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Young Shiu Kim

 

 

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Young Shiu Kim

 

 

Mark Meulmester

Mark Meulmester

 

 

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Mark Meulmester

 

 

Richard Shaw

Richard Shaw

 

 

Vincent Suez

Vincent Suez

 

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Vincent Suez

 

 

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Beatrice Wood

 

 

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Beatrice Wood

 

 

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Peter Voulkos

 

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Peter Voulkos

 

 

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Vintage Vogue on location

 

The innovative design trajectory of the lively, free flowing, colouful and expressive fashion that evolved during the 50s/60s was demanding to be elevated with a more dynamic presentation and the photographers responded to the challenge with aplomb. During this era it was a visual experience to behold, witnessing chic models wearing shimmering, bold, stylishl garments lensed by brilliant photogrphers while juxttaposed against ancient monuments in exotic, distant locations or exciting street scenes.

Editor-in-chief at Vogue US, Diana Vreeland, commisioned photographers like David Avedon, Horst P Horst, Henry Clarke and Irving Penn to travel to foreign countries like South-America, Spain, and Africa adding a fresh dynamism to fashion editorials This was an instrinsic extension to her previous work as a stylist with Louis Dahl-Wolfe, who was an integral trailblazer and gifted visionary in the development of a new era in fashion photogrpahy. This  included favouring natural outdoor light, candid spontaneity in the model poses, the inclusion of designs focused on form and line along with refined composition and balance and more muted colour palletes. She developed a rich vein of exceptional photographic images which helped to liberate the visual arts from the confines of the studio and introduce a sophisticated glamour, presented with a more relaxed sense of style and freedom. which is still a couture de force till this day.

The following photos highlight the photograhers that contributed to this reshaping of the fashion narrative and visual culture that was launched during this highly unique era.

 

 

 

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1955 Vogue—photo Richard Rutledge

 Condé Nast Archive

 

Model Lisa Fonssagrives lounging on bed, wearing Claire McCardell's pink and white striped dress. Photo by Richard Rutledge

Model Lisa Fonssagrives lounging on bed, wearing Claire McCardell’s pink and white striped dress.

Photo by Richard Rutledge

 

 

Photo-Benedetta Barzini ---Valentino . Vogue Italia, 1970

Photo-Benedetta Barzini —Valentino — Vogue Italia, 1970

 

 

Bettina in an unpublished fashion photo by Henry Clarke, 1954

Bettina in an unpublished fashion photo by Henry Clarke, 1954

 

 

Jeanette Christiansen -- Ban Lon top with matching wide legged pants by Louis Feraud

Jeanette Christiansen — Ban Lon top with matching wide legged pants by Louis Feraud

 

 

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Dior’s ‘New Look’ coat in black wool crépe, Paris, 1947

Photography by Louise Dahl Wolfe

 

 

Lillian Bassman Black with one white glove Barbara Mullen dress by Christian Dior NY Harper s Bazaar 1950--

 ‘Black with one white glove’ — Model Barbara Mullen, dress by Christian Dior

NY Harper’s Bazaar 1950 — photo Lillian Bassman

 

Horst P. Horst — Fashion for Vogue with Dali Mural in Helena Rubinstein’s apartment, NYC

Horst P. Horst — Fashion for Vogue with Dali Mural in Helena Rubinstein’s apartment, NYC

 

 

Photo by Guy Bourdin, 1967

Photo by Guy Bourdin, 1967

 

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Viktoriya Sasonkina, Jourdan Dunn & Rose Cordero in ‘A Dream of a Dress’ editorial by Paolo Roversi for Vogue Italia

 

 

Bettina in blue dotted organdie dress with pale blue satin sash by Lanvin Castillo Paris Vogue February 1954 Flickr

Bettina in blue dotted organdie dress with pale blue satin sash by Lanvin Castillo

Paris Vogue February 1954 from Flickr

 

 

Model Isa Stoppi photographed by Henry Clarke for Vogue UK, 1966.

Model Isa Stoppi photographed by Henry Clarke for Vogue UK, 1966

 

 

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Photo by Chiron Duong

 

 

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Iman wearing Valentino – Horst P Horst

Horst P. Horst produced distinctive, elegant work and was a pioneer of the genre now known as Classic fashion photography

 

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Photo by Chiron Duong– ‘Fly’

 

 

 

Federico Forquet---Dolce Far Forquet

Design by  Federico Forquet for Dolce Far Forquet

Model Donvale Luna

 

 

 

Geneviève in grey flannel suit with matching stole by Pierre Balmain, photo by Georges Saad, Paris, 1953

Geneviève in grey flannel suit with matching stole by Pierre Balmain

photo by Georges Saad, Paris, 1953

 

 

Chiron-Duong--Red-birds

Chiron Duong — ‘Red birds’

 

 

 

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photo – John Rawlings

Vogue, 1941

 

Christian Weissdynamic-Stillness

Christian Weissdynamic – ‘Stillness’

 

 

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1950’s colourful Pierre Cardin coats

 

 

 

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Donvale Luna

 

 

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Photographer Enrique Vega, Model Denisa Kucik

 

 

Yves Saint Laurent haute couture, spring 1988

Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture, Spring 1988

 

 

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Dior fall/winter 2023 campaign, revival of  50’s elegance
HCM@hoodcouturemag

 

 

 

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 Model Francoise Rubartelli,  photograph by John Cowan

Machu Piccu, Vogue 1968

 

 

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Vogue Italia – Adut Akech

 

Zebra print by Nina Ricci 1962

Zebra print by Nina Ricci, 1962

 

 

Elsa Schiaparelli mastered the genre of wearable art

Desiged by Elsa Schiaparelli, one of the original pioneers of wearable art.

 

 

 

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Photo by Henry Clarke

 

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British Vogue—‘From Byzantium’

Model Duckie Thot — photo Nick Knight

 

 

black and white beauty veruschka models a white mini dress with aluminum accessories in the caribbean 1968 vogue

Veruschka modelling a white mini dress with aluminum accessories in the Caribbean,

1968 Vogue

 

Federico Forquet 1966, chapeau de Canessa, escarpins de Barrilà. Photo Marc Hispard. Mannequin Donyale Luna

Federico Forquet collection 1966, chapeau de Canessa, escarpins de Barrilà.

Photo Marc Hispard, model Donyale Luna

 

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Federico Forquet 1966. Photo Marc Hispard. Mannequin Donyale Luna

 

 

Geoffrey Beene set. Villa Romana del Casale, Piazza Armerina, Sicily, Italy, 1967 © Henry Clarke

Geoffrey Beene set. Villa Romana del Casale, Piazza Armerina, Sicily, Italy, 1967 © Henry Clarke

 

 

Givenchy L'Officiel magazine 1975

Givenchy — L’Officiel magazine

1975

 

 

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Grace Hartzel Preens In Las Pozas

Lensed By Mikael Jansson For Vogue US, 2016

 

 

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Harper’s Bazaar UK 2010

Meghan Collison is clothed in layers of exotic bohemian wear

 

 

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Photographer Henry Clarke, 1977

 

 

Henry Clarke castello San Nicola Larena Vogue 1967

Henry Clarke photo

San Nicola Larena, Italy —  Vogue 1967

 

 

Jean Patchett in Dior, Vogue, 1950

Jean Patchett in Dior, Vogue, 1950

 

 

Joseph Leombruno and Jack Bodi 1954

Joseph Leombruno and Jack Bodi photo

1954

 

 

Albert Watson

Photography Albert Watson

 

 

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 Verushka by Richard Avedon

American Vogue 1966

 

 

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Baronne Van Zuylen on a Camel

Egypt

 

 

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‘Beneath the veil’ — Photographed by Henry Clarke,

Vogue,1969 — Cynthia Korman, Golestan Palace

 

 

Valentino1968 69. Photo Henry Clarke. Model Marina Schiano

Valentino 1968/69 — Photo Henry Clarke, Model Marina Schiano

 

 

Harper's Bazaar 1957 photo Louise Dalh Wolfe

Harper’s Bazaar, 1957

Photo Louise Dalh Wolfe

 

China-Machado

China Machado

 

 

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Emilio Pucci caftan exemplifying the free flow inherent in the Rabbit Year of 1963

 

 

Evening dresses from the'Vivace' Spring Summer Collection; 1967

Evening dresses from the Vivacé Spring Summer Collection; 1967

 

 

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Vibrant dress from the Vivacé  Spring Summer Collection

1967

 

F.C. Gundlach The Photographic Work’ at Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin

F.C. Gundlach photo at Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin

 

 

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Jean Patchett wearing a buttoned sheath dress with polka-dotted hat,

Vogue 1954

 

 

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Harley Weir — Jimmy Choo and Mulger

 

 

L’Officiel 1969 Yves Saint Laurent jumpsuit

 Yves Saint Laurent jumpsuit

L’Officiel, 1969

 

 

Louis Faurer, Models wearing Design by Castillo for Lanvin, Gare du Nord, Paris, 1960

Photo by Louis Faurer, Models wearing ensembles by Castillo for Lanvin, , Paris, 1960

 

 

Louise Dahl Wolfe photography, 1930s 50s

Natalie in Gres Coat, Kairouan, 1950

Louise Dahl Wolfe photography

 

 

 

Liz Gibbons (l) and Bijou Barrington (r), photo by Louise Dahl Wolfe for Harper's Bazaar 1942

Liz Gibbons and Bijou Barrington  (r), photo by Louise Dahl Wolfe for Harper’s Bazaar 1942

The Andes, Peru

 

 

photo by Luis Monteiro-model #Olga Serova

Photo by Luis Monteiro — model #Olga Serova

 

 

Anne Gunning in evening gown by Marc Bohan for Dior, 1961

Anne Gunning in evening gown by Marc Bohan for Dior, 1961

 

 

suit by Jacques Fath from the Spring collection of 1952, photo by Willy Maywald

Suit by Jacques Fath from the Spring collection of 1952, photo by Willy Maywald

 

 

 

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Marisa Berenson photographed in Capri wearing a black-white print silk cape-coat by Forquet

1968

 

 

Marisa-is-wearing-a-sea-headdress-created-by-Alexandre-to-complement-the-blues-of-the-eye-makeup-by-John-Robert-Powers,-photo-by-Henry-Clarke,-Sardinia,-Vogue-US,-June-1969

Marisa wearing a sea headdress created by Alexandre

photo by Henry Clarke

Sardinia

 

 

Marisa is wearing kangaroo fur coat by Cornelius Furs, photo by Arnaud de Rosnay, Australia, Vogue US

Marisa is wearing kangaroo fur coat by Cornelius Furs, photo by Arnaud de Rosnay, Australia,

Vogue USA

 

 

Model-in-floral-print-bouffant-dress-by-Simonetta--Venice--1957

Summer floral print bouffant dress by Simonetta

Venice, 1957

 

 

Model inModel in Valentino evening coat, photographed by Henry Clarke in Sicily, Italy, 1967

Model in Valentino evening coat, photographed by Henry Clarke in Sicily, Italy, 1967

 

 

 

Model Marie Lise Gres -- wearing a dress by Sarmi and photographed by Henry Clarke. Vogue,January 1966

Model Marie Lise Gres — wearing a dress by Sarmi and photographed by Henry Clarke. Vogue,January 1966

 

 

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Veruschka sitting on the Baroque sculpture of a man—wearing pink floral gypsy dress by Ken Scott

 

 

model wearing a Bill Blass silk organza dress at the Xanadu complex in Calpe Spain Vogue, 1969 photo Henry Clarke

Model wearing a Bill Blass silk Organza dress at the Xanadu complex

Calpe Spain Vogue, 1969 photo Henry Clarke

 

 

Giovanni-Natale

Giovanni Natale

Vogue Photos Italy

 

 

1956 La Femme Chic Magazine

 La Femme Chic Magazine

1956

 

 

Anna Carin Bjorck leans against a 1959 Cadillac convertible cover photo by John Rawlings Vogue 1958---Flickr---Photo-Sharing

Anna Carin Bjorck leans against a 1959 Cadillac convertible

photo by John Rawlings Vogue, 1958—-Flickr

 

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Dovima by Henry Clarke Vogue Paris, 1956

 

 

Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks photo

 

 

 

Nena von Schlebrugge, photo by Norman Parkinson, Vogue 1958

Nena von Schlebrugge, photo by Norman Parkinson, Vogue

1958

 

 

Norman Parkingson

Norman Parkinson photograph

 

Celeste Tesoriero Dress --Model BrittanyBurke-summer-Della Bass

‘Summer’ by Della Bass

Celeste Tesoriero Dress — Model BrittanyBurke

 

 

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La Femme Chic – 1956

 

 

Oscar de la Renta Vogue US,1967

Oscar de la Renta — Dominican fashion designer Vogue US,1967

 

 

Persepous Audience Hall of Xerxes-and Lauren Hutton

Persepous Audience Hall of Xerxes-and Lauren Hutton

 

 

Photo by Claude Virgin

Photo by Claude Virgin

 

 

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A shoot on the roof of Vogue studios, photographer Claude Virgin is perched on a step ladder while the model is balancing on the edge of the roof.

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Nena von Schlebrügge in a printed silk chiffon dress

 

Nena von Schlebrügge in a printed silk chiffon dress

US Vogue  1962 – Photographed by Horst P Horst

 

 

Model Raquel Zimmermann photographed by Craig McDean

Raquel Zimmermann photographed by Craig McDean

 

 

Charm Magazine---Dovima---1953

Charm Magazine—Dovima—1953

 

 

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Geneviève Grad — French Elle Magazine, 1966

Duffy Archives

 

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Samantha Jones in a hooded silk jersey chemise by Emilio Pucci

photo by Henry Clarke — Udaipur India, Vogue 1966

 

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Staff photographer for Harperâ Bazaar, Louise Dahl Wolfe, introduced a witty naturalism to the staid conventions of fashion photography

1936 through 1958

 

 

Sweet Memorie” by Maryna Khomenko

‘Sweet Memorie’ — Maryna Khomenko photo

 

 

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Maudie James by Norman Parkinson Vogue UK, 1969

 

 

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Shiraz Perspolis Iran

 

Valentino Haute couture Spring/Summer 1966

Donvale Luna wearing Valentino Haute Couture Spring/Summer 1966

Photography by Marc Hispard

 

 

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Veruschka photo by Franco Rubartelli

Vogue, 1968

 

Veruschka on a Barren Cliff in the Arizona Desert Franco Rubartell

Veruschka in the Arizona Desert  by Franco Rubartelli

 

 

 

Model in gold swimsuit interwoven with Lastex is by Mabs of Hollywood, model in pink suit is by Gantner, 1948

Model in gold swimsuit interwoven with Lastex is by Mabs of Hollywood, model in pink suit is by Gantner,

Photo Louise Dahl Wolfe, 1948

 

 

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Veruschka by Franco Rubartelli

Vogue, 1968

 

 

Veruschka von Lehndorff wearing tunic and pants by Valentino while standing in Piazza Di San Giorgio

Veruschka von Lehndorff wearing tunic and pants by Valentino while standing in Piazza Di San Giorgio, Italy

 

 

Veruschka-wears-a-hooded-caftan-by-Emilio-Pucci-at-Lake-Tanganyika-in-Tanzania.-(Photo-by-Henry-Clarke

Veruschka wears a hooded caftan by Emilio Pucci at Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania.

Photo by Henry Clarke

 

 

Vogue Italia 2015 Edie Campbell by Tim Walker

Vogue Italia, 2015 — Edie Campbell by Tim Walker

 

 

Vogue Italy 2017 Luigi and Lango

Vogue Italy, 2017

Luigi and Lango

 

 

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Vogue Italy, 1951

 

 

Isa-Stopp--Photo Henry Clarke

Model Isa Stoppi — Vogue UK, 1966

Photo Henry Clarke

 

 

Model in a Nettie Rosenstein suit with brooch by Tiffany worn at the waist, 1941

Model in a Nettie Rosenstein suit with brooch by Tiffany worn at the waist.

Photo Louise Dahl Wolfe, 1941

 

 

Vogue US 2016 Lupita Nyongo by Mario Testino

Vogue US, 2016

Lupita Nyongo by Mario Testino

 

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Dior Haute Couture collection— fall winter 2010

photo Patrick Demarchelie

 

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Vintage photo Henri Manuel

Fashion study 1910 in German Vogue

 

 

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Tiago Lima — ‘Clouds’

 

 

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Traina Norell Coral red silk chiffon dress– 1953–Model Evelyn Tripp

photography Horst P Horst

 

 

Model in black jersey dress by Mad Carpentier, photo by Pottier, 1953

Mid Century decor -Model in black jersey dress by Mad Carpentier, photo by Pottier

1953

 

 

Silhouette fashion photo, Seeberger Bros

Black and white silhouette fashion photo, Seeberger Bros

 

 

 

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Sculptures by the water

 

 

White Buddah -- yuliatettamanti-Flickr

White Buddah Koi pond

Photo — yuliatettamanti, Flickr

 

Sculptures highlighted by uplifting locations of lakes, rivers and the ocean.

 

Being a Year of Water Rabbit, which is recognized as one of the most powerful combinations in the Chinese Zodiac, I am continuing my focus on the creative fluidity that is enlivened by the presence of the embracing water element with a collection of sculptures presented in various water enviroments.

Also a 5 minute video of a journey into a exremely remote location in the Kimderley region of North West Australia featuring pure spring waters.

 

Marble Sculptures Georg Scheele Free of troubles

 ‘ Free of troubles’ – Georg Scheele Marble Sculptures

 

 

Dianna The Huntress--Anna Hyatt Huntington. Brookgreen Gardens, Myrtle Beach, SC

‘Dianna The Huntress’ — Anna Hyatt Huntington.

 

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Koichi Ishino –  ‘In the Grey of Daybreak’

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2019

 

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Dragon at Bagillt Beacon site, UK

 

 

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‘Elephant Rock’ (natural formation) – Iceland

 

 

 

Lake Taupō New Zealand

Maroi relief art

Lake Taupō, New Zealand

 

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‘Leviatano’ – Michael-Shewmaker

2014

 

 

Paul-Jackson---The-Sea-Series

Paul Jackson — The Sea Series

 

 

Playtime Jurien Bay, Australia, 2019Tom Cannon

‘Playtime’ Tom Cannon

A sea pup playing fetch, showing off a sculptural bunch of kelp

Jurien Bay, Australia, 2019

 

 

Autumn leaves frame 'Vase' in stacked slate James Parker Sculpture

Vase in stacked slate —  James Parker Sculpture

 

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Graceful flowing sculpture by Pompeo Marchesi

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

 

 

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‘The Giant’ — beach of Fegina, Italy

It is a 1910 sculpture in armed cement and iron, created by Arrigo Minerbi of Ferrara and the engineer Levacher

 

 

Bruldsjurk by the Kunstenaarscollectief Patchwork. 1994

Bruldsjurk by the Kunstenaars collectief  — ‘Patchwork’

 

Steve Nicknell sculpture at coast of East Sooke Regional Park, British Columbia, Canada

Steve Bicknell sculpture at coast of East Sooke Regional Park, British Columbia, Canada

(composite insertion)

 

 

Andrew Rogers, Weightless Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2022

Andrew Rogers —  ‘Weightless’

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2022

 

Tania Spencer, Inspired by Rosie, Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2018

Tania Spencer, ‘Inspired by Rosie’,

Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2018

 

Aphrodite riding a dolphin over the sea

Aphrodite riding a dolphin over the sea

Terracotta sculpture

 

 

The River aka_The Floozie in the Jacuzzi - Victoria Square, Birmingham

The River aka The Floozie in the Jacuzzi

Victoria Square, Birmingham

 

April Pine, Tidal, Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2021

April Pine – ‘Tidal’  (aka ‘You don’t say’)

 Photo Jessica Wyld

Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2021

 

 

Australian Marine Observatory by Baca Architects will resemble a whale emerging from water

Australian Marine Observatory by Baca Architects will resemble a whale emerging from water

 

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Australian Marine Observatory

 

Mary On Mission--Wanner Sculpture Studio

Mary On Mission — Wanner Sculpture Studio

 

 

Masayuki Sugiyama, Sight Walk On The Moon, Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2021. Photo Richard Watson

Masayuki Sugiyama —  ‘Sight Walk On The Moon’

Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2021

Photo Richard Watson

 

 

Matt Sloane

Matt Sloane, Aus.

 

Matthew Tyrrell Rippon-vineyard-sculpture-#3

Matthew Tyrrell — Rippon vineyard sculpture

 

 

Nuliajuk is a goddess lives on the bottom of the sea and controls sea mammals seals, walruses, and sea lions.

Nuliajuk is a goddess who lives in the sea and controls sea mammals seals, walruses, and sea lions.

 

 

 

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Michael Sibel,Star Man’

Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2020

 

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Moai sculpture pair

 

 

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‘Fountain of Neptune’ — Bologna

 

 

Björn Ekegren face sculpture Yugu Lake Yunnan

Björn Ekegren face sculpture — Yugu Lake, Yunnan

 

Boaz Vaadia Ma'aseyahu Point Leo Sculpture Park

Boaz Vaadia —Ma’aseyahu’

Point Leo Sculpture Park, Victoria

 

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 Jason de Caires Taylor France architecture installations sculpture

Cannes Underwater Museum

 

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Carving face from cement with a grinder – Jason de Caires Taylor

Cannes Underwater Museum

 

Cape Gamoda sculpture

Cape Gamoda beach sculpture

 

 

Carl Milles -- Jonah

Carl Milles — ‘Jonah’

 

 

Chee Kiong Yeo, Monumental sculpture – Triumph (2017), Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2022

Chee Kiong Yeo – Monumental sculpture – ‘Triumph’

Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2022

 

 

Chen Wenling, Autumn Moon in the Sky, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2017

Chen Wenling,Autumn Moon in the Sky’

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2017

 

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Chris Booth — ‘Laminae’

Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2021

 

Cui Yi, Time After Time No. 2, Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2019

Cui Yi, Time After Time No. 2′

Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2019

 

Everest-Himalayan sculpture

Himalayan sculpture, Mount Everest in background

 

 

Frangulyan Georgy, Dante Virgil, Isola San Michele, Fondementa_Nuova_statue Venezia_Venice

Frangulyan Georgy, Dante Virgil, Isola San Michele, Fondementa Nuova statue  – Venezia

 

 

 

Herbert-Flugelman -- Making-Waves

Herbert Flugelman — Making Waves’

 

 

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‘Innversion Sphere’ – Bondi

 

Isabela Lleo Castells, Working in the Clouds, Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2022

Isabela Lleo Castells,Working in the Clouds’,

Cottesloe WA 2022

 

 

 

La Péri by Gustave Moreau, 1878

‘La Péri’ by Gustave Moreau, 1878

 

 

ORISHA OYA Goddess of Wind Yoruba African Statue Sculpture Bronze Finish

Orisha Oya Goddess of Wind

Yoruba African Statue Sculpture Bronze Finish

 

 

Wilfried-Fitzenreiter-1988-on-the-River-Spree,-Berlin

Wilfried Fitzenreiter sculpture 1988 on the River Spree, Berlin

 

 

Lucy Barker, Chrysalis, Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2021

Lucy Barker, ‘Chrysalis’

Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2021

 

Magadha

Ghora Katora Lake near Rajgir Magadha, India

 

Owl Moon Sarah McNulty

Owl Moon

photo Sarah McNulty

 

Peter-Mandl--Charites

Peter Mandl– ‘Charites’

 

 

Philip_Jackson_Glass-Slipper_Large

Philip Jackson — Glass Slipper’

 

Philip Jackson's Garden Skittles with Scarlatti gardeb sculpture

Philip Jackson’s ‘Garden Skittles with Scarlatti’

 

 

Pohutukawa tree NZ muniki statue

Pohutukawa tree, NZ and Tiki statue

 

 

Pond(er) at NGV International

Pond(er) at NGV International, Henry Moore sculpture

 

 

Primavera, 2008 by Orazio Barbagallo

Primavera, 2008 by Orazio Barbagallo

 

 

Richard Robinson emerging shark

Richard Robinson photo –  emerging shark

 

Origins by Simon Gudgeon, Sculpture by the Lakes, Pallington, Dorchester, Dorset

‘Origins’ by Simon Gudgeon,

Sculpture by the Lakes, Pallington, Dorchester, Dorset

 

 

Capalbio Garavicchio_ _Il_Giardino_dei_Tarocchi_Niki_Saint_Phalle

Capalbio Garavicchio — Il Giardino dei Tarocchi — Niki Saint Phalle

 

 

sculpture by lake Helen Gallimoret

Sculpture by lake photo — Helen Gallimoret

 

Sculpture in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection Alexander Calder

Sculpture in the Peggy Guggenheim Venice collection — Alexander Calder

 

 

seal

A seal making his way back to the beach at Blairgowie after a misadventure at the nearby shopping strip.

 

 

Seal pup found on farm in South Australia 3km from ocean---

A disorientated Seal pup found on a farm in South Australia 3km from the ocean.

 

 

Water Cloud Stuart Green Nick Wright Dorrigo, NSW

‘Water Cloud’ — Stuart Green

Donated by Nick Wright at Dorrigo, NSW. Controversialy rejected by some of the locals.

 

Rain in Mountains_Oleh Lesiuk

‘Rain in Mountains’ — Oleh Lesiuk

 

 

Bronze sculpture by Linda Brunker using elements collected from the ocean

Santa Monica bronze sculpture by Linda Brunker using elements collected from the ocean.

 

 

ShapingSpirit-Driftwood-Sculptures-by-Debra-Bernier

Shaping Spirit Driftwood Sculptures by Debra Bernier

 

Sphere-by-Michael-Snape

‘Sphere’ by Michael Snape

 

Stephen-Page--Paun-2021

Stephen Page —Paun’

2021

 

 

studio view ceramic sphere

Studio view ceramic elliptical form

 

 

Talland-bay-hotel

Talland Bay Hotel sculpture

 

The Castle by the Sea -- photo Emily Soto

The Castle by the Sea — photo Emily Soto

 

 

The Infinity Ring Charles Sherman

‘The Infinity Ring’ — Charles Sherman

 

 

The Reefline OMA Miami Beach public sculpture park_Dezeen

Order of Importance, by Leandro Erlich

The Reefline OMA Miami Beach public sculpture park

Dezeen

 

This bronze sculpture named 'Floating Figure' was sculpted in 1927 by Gaston Lachaise and cast in 1979 by the Modern Art Foundry in New York

This bronze sculpture named ‘Floating Figure’ was sculpted in 1927 by Gaston Lachaise and cast in 1979 by the Modern Art Foundry,NY

Canberra, Aus

 

 

Tony Cragg

Tony Cragg sculpture

 

 

Tung Min Hu, Ark, Sculpture-by-the-Sea,-Cottesloe-2022

Tung Min Hu — Ark’

 

vintage glass art Yatch Sailing

Vintage glass art sailing yatch

 

 

Visconti and Borromeo of Villa Visconti Borromeo Litta

Villa Visconti statue

 

Stephen Marr, Thinking It Up, Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2020

Stephen Marr — ‘Thinking It Up’

Cottesloe 2020

 

 

Vlase Nikoleski, Flooded Weir, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2022

Vlase Nikoleski —  ‘Flooded Weir’

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2022

 

 

Water of Life Cathedral Sculpture — Broadbent Studio

‘Water of Life’ Cathedral Sculpture — Broadbent Studio

 

 

Wenceslas Square (Vaclavske Namesti) Franciscan Garden sculpture

Wenceslas Square (Vaclavske Namesti) Franciscan Garden sculpture

 

Yoshio Nitta, I Put a Moon on the Table, But it Has a Hole and is Lacking, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2017

Yoshio Nitta — ‘ I Put a Moon on the Table, But it Has a Hole and is Lacking’

 

 

Barbara-Hepworth's-Three-Obliques-(Walk-In)-1968-installed-beside-Aristide-Maillol’s-Action-in-Chains-1906-at-Hakone-Open-Air-Museum,-1970

 

Barbara Hepworth’s ‘Three Obliques’ (Walk In) 1968 installed beside Aristide Maillol’s ‘Action in Chains’ 

Hakone Open Air Museum, 1970

Japan

 

 

Sacred Healing Springs Journey with Ernie Dingo – Remote Aussie Kimberley

SBS series ‘Going Places With Ernie Dingo’

Any references to ‘Saltwater Mob’, ‘Giant Lizards’, ‘Snapping Handbags’ and ‘Big Lockjaws’ are the local Indigenous Australian , slang description of the Aussie crocodile.

 

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Ochre ocean elevation – blue rabbit emerge

 

rabbit-elevation

Vision of a rabbit lake surrounded by a rich ochre terrain from an elevation of 3km

NT,  Australia

 

 

Rabbit blue lake in middle of OZ

 

Despite being the Year of the Rabbit, bunnies weren’t really on my radar, having already done a feature post on the refined rabbit. Recently, while indulging in an arial landscape foray for gong shi exploration, I had a chance sighting of an intruiging rabbit lake in the centre of Australia. It was in an auspicious location due to its proximity to Mount Wedge and Pupanya (origin of Indiginous Aussie Art from bark to canvas). This acted as a visual catalyst that motivated me to take a closer look into the Rabbit Year 

As this year is associated with the Water Rabbit, which only comes every 60 years, the last time this happened was in 1963, right on the cusp of an era of  cultural and artistic revolution.The Water Rabbit arouses artistic fluidity, creative virility, feminine flexibility, moderation, balance and moving with the flow. 

At this time the Beach Boys were launching their  breezy Surf Music mania and wave motion imagery was becoming very popular. Even ocean symbolic, shark fin designs were appearing as a frequent feature on most cars cruising around in the sixties. The bold sea sail architectural statement of the Sydney Opera House was also opened in 1963.

Miro, Jackson Pollock, Guido Gambone, Robert Crumb and numerous artists had introduced a freewheeling flow and spirit in their works, emboldened by a carefree abandon. So many shackles were suddenly shed, releasing an irrestistable spirit of freedom which kept expanding along with the far reaching musical innovation and genre fusion unleashed from Coltrane, Hendrix, The Beatles, Miles Davis and countless others in this artistically fertile decade.

 

 

Vivid-Sydney-2019

Vivid light festival projected onto sails of Sydney Opera House

 

The currently unique combination of the Water Rabbit, the emergence of Neptune and the beginning of a new Jupiter Grand Transit (2020) is a potent mix for spiritual illumination. I’m now anticipating a new phase of cultural expansion and creativity becoming imminent. I don’t beleive we can assimilate another ride as wild as the last time but I feel there will be a more nurturing component of rejuvination, creative healing, sustanence and preservation. 

Enjoy this collection inspired by rabbits, feminifience, calming beauty, ochre orange, trippy blue palletes, ethereal spontaneous flow and good fortune.

 

 

boho-chix

Wavy hair, flowing dresses, Boho Chic, all in the essemce of the peace loving Water Bunny

 

 

Ceramic-Vintage drip glaze vallauris

Vintage drip glaze vessel from Vallauris

 

 

large stoneware bowl with bright polychrome floral decoration to the interior exterior glazed in black painted signature diameter 35cm

Tchalenko floral bowl

 

 

Daniels Kelly ceramic cups

 Kelly Daniels ceramic cups

 

 

Jose de Rivera-vintage sculpture

Jose de Rivera vintage sculpture

 

 

alfagar

Alfajar Ceramica Pequeno Formato Alcuza — Small Flask

 

 

gone-with-flow-vintage

Flamboyant vintage orange and white striped vase

 

 

Chrysanthemum-and-rabbit-stone-7

Rabbit and Chrysanthemum Flower Suiseki/GongShi stone

 

 

Art Nouveau fluttering butterfly vase Stephanie Young

Art Nouveau fluttering butterfly vase — Stephanie Young

 

 

Annie-Thomas-Burke mosaic design

Annie Thomas Burke — mosaic panel

 

 

 Alfajar imaginary of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures together with the pure abstraction of lines and colors

SpanishAlfajar  — expressive female face vessels

 

 

Agnes Weinrich-1920Woman With Flowers

Agnes Weinrich  —  ‘Woman With Flowers’

1920

 

 

Anelise Bredow vintage inspired vases

Anelise Bredow vintage inspired vases

 

 

Afrofuturism Collages of Kaylan

Afrofuturism Collages of Kaylan

 

 

Isabelle-TuchbandBrasil

Danseuse de flamenco — Isabelle Tuchband

Brasil

 

 

St Albans Pottery

St Albans Pottery, UK

 

 

Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri -- Honey Ant Dreaming

Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri — ‘Honey Art Dreaming’

1987

Clifford Possum was an artist of early dot painting activity at Pupunya. His Honey Art Dreaming was featured on the Australian Five Dollar Silver coin.

 

 

Vase Sirene 1960 Jean Derval

Vase Sirene — Jean Derval

1960

 

 

melissa-gougeon-dot-body-arrt

An interpretation of indigenous dot painting by French artist Melissa Gougeon

 

 

Bob-Iles-1

Bob Illes —  female sculpture

 

 

 

Sue Tirrell Black Rabbit Star Plate_2019

Sue Tirrell Black Rabbit Star Plate — ‘A bunny Ba Qua’

2019

 

Portal to another time and place Deborah Halpern

‘Portal to another time and place’ —  Deborah Halpern

 

 

 

5 hand painted nesting doll birds created by Aboriginal artist Leah Brown.River Nesting

5 hand painted nesting doll birds created by Aussie Indigenous artist Leah Brown

 

 

 

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Isabelle Tuchband

 

 

Banksia-coccinea-flowering-in Stirling Range National Park Terry Dunham

Banksia Coccinea flowering in Stirling Range National Park

photo Terry Dunham

 

 

Flowers of Edo Young Womans Narrative Chanting to the Shamisen

Flowers of Edo Young Womans Narrative Chanting to the Shamisen

 

 

Monty Dons Gardens of Venice

Monty Don’s ‘Gardens of Venice’

 

M-Montedoro

M.Montedoro Art Deco postcard

1920’s

 

 

Irina Charmy Pony

Irina Charmy – ‘Pony’

 

 

Lake Titicaca Puma and Rabbit

Lake Titicaca, Puma chasing a Rabbit — The Sacred Lake of the Incas

 

Natasha-Dikareva

Natasha Dikareva— Third Eye Poodle

 

 

Compressed Spiny Oyster and Mojave TurquoiseCompressed Turquoise Medicine Bear Zuni Fetish

Compressed Spiny Oyster and Mojave Turquoise— Medicine Bear Zuni Fetish

 

 

Eastern Grey Kangaroo

Eastern Grey Kangaroo in habitat

 

 

Ceramics-Carolyn-Genders-

Carolyn Genders

 

 

 

Georges_Braque_1909_Port_en_Normandie_LGeorges-Braque-1909-Port-en-Normandie-Little-Harbor_in_Normandy

Georges Braque — ‘Little Harbor in Normandy’

1909

 

 

A_R_Archipenko-Alexander-Arabian-1936

Alexander Archipenko — ‘Arabian’

1936

 

 

Sea Dragon

Sea Dragon

 

 

Serpent Rising Alexander Calamei

‘Serpent Rising’ —  Alexander Calamei

 

— “This dot art piece was inspired during the time of 12/12 /2020 as it was a pinnacle time due to  many stars aligning in our solar system and the dormant energy of the serpent under Uluru rising again. Mother earth is changing and she is waking up in many areas on the planet and Uluru. The centre is the Emotional Chakra of the Earth, waking the dormant serpent to assist with clearing trauma within the consciousness for healing humanity.” — Alexander Calamei

 

 

large-serpent-

Rising serpent ariel landscape capture

Northern NT

 

 

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IaRex lAtelier International Artists Residency Exchange

France

 

 

Waylande Gregory Europa and the Bull ca. 1934. Earthenware

Waylande Gregory — ‘Europa and the Bull’

ca. 1934. Earthenware

 

 

Christine Brallier -- mosaic blue cat

Christine Brallier — mosaic blue cat

2023 is also Year Of Cat

 

Bowers Lynn Smier

 Lynn Smier Bowers

 

 

Kangpigeon earthenware with glazes and enamels Delinquent children_ Jenny Orchard

‘Kangpigeon’ earthenware with glazes and enamels – Jenny Orchard

Delinquent Children exhibition

 

 

drafon-yang-to-yin-rabbit

‘Dragon and Waves’ 1827

The Yang Dragon is also a polarisation of the Yin Rabbit and their luck. The Water Rabbit is the luckiest sign in the Chinese zodiac calender.

 Smithsonian

 

 

Wings of Victory 1978

Erte — ‘Wings of Victory’

1978

 

 

Women Knowledge GatherersAlexander Calamei

‘Women Knowledge Gatherers’  — Alexander Calamei

 

 

Gwion-Motif kimberley rock art

 Yowna Gwion – Kimberley rock art

13000BC

 

Hellenistic terracotta vase from Centuripe Sicily

Hellenistic terracotta vase — Centuripe, Sicily

 

 

Huntsman-with-Ram-and-Sita-

My visiting Huntsman spider promoting the amber vibe

 

 

Kumakura Junkischi

Kumakura Junkischi

 

 

Laura Bird running green woman vessel

Laura Bird  — running naked green woman vessel

 

 

mystical iconic Australian grass tree

Magical iconic Australian grass tree attracts fairies according to folklore.

 

 

 

Painted Plate Dudley Vaccianna

Painted Plate Dudley Vaccianna

 

 

Buste Feminin en papier mache

Buste Feminin en papier mache – dédé

 

 

Centrotevola in terraccotta Jean Cocteau

Centrotevola in terraccotta Jean Cocteau

 

 

Italian-Pottery-Fratelli-Fanciullacci-Bowl

Italian Pottery- Bowl  —  Fratelli Fanciullacci

 

 

Mata Ortiz Pottery by Lazaro Ozuna Silveira Sgraffito Olla

 

Mata Ortiz Pottery Sgraffito Olla — Lazaro Ozuna Silveira

 

 

Chinese Handmade Ceramic Red Blue White Dimensional Dragon Vase

Chinese Handmade Ceramic Red Blue White Dimensional Dragon Vase

 

 

Corinna-MaguireThreadcakes-Online-Cake-Competition

Corinna Maguire – lucky octopus cake

Eight legged creatures like the octopus and the spider (and their web) are worthy of contemplation  because they can guide you beyond entrapement from your deep past. The intricate webs and tentacles being symbolic of the entanglement that can bind us. That’s why traditionally they are known to free emotional and creative blocks. As a new era of inner freedom is now emerging, its a great time for some serious release.

 

 

Dresden ZwingerChina Qing Zeit 1644–1911

Porcelain Koi  relief teapot — China Qing Zeit 1644–1911

Dresden Zwinger museum

 

Edward-C.-Curtis-1905

Edward C. Curtis photo

1905

 

 

Alfajar-ceramica-Arte-en-ceramica

Alfajar –nude figure flask

 

 

Barocco -- Richard Tarone And Jacques Massard V Europa Pan And Dionysis19951995

Barocco — Richard Tarone And Jacques Massard — ‘Europa, Pan And Dionysis’

1995

 

French Art Deco Colonial Vase

French Art Deco Colonial Vase

 

 

imiso-ceramics-01

Imiso ceramics Africasso vessel

 

 

Jean Arp sculpture

Jean Arp sculpture

 

 

Joely Clinkard Small Red Spring STROLL Vessel

Joely Clinkard —  Small Red Spring Stroll Vessel

 

 

BUTHAUD-Rene -- Plate

Rene Buthaud large plate

 

 

Michael Kay circus performers

Michael Kay circus riders

 

 

 

James Webb Telescope Detects An Asteroid Roughly The Size Of Romes Colosseum

Reaching Out  — recent image from the James Webb Telescope

 

 

rabbit-Island

Rabbit Island, Valsanzibio garden, Italy

During the Venice plague of the 1630’s, Giovani  Barbarigo made a vow to the Divine that if his family survived, he would create a grand garden at Valsanzibio.

Monty Don

 

 

 

Large Cobalt Ground Satsuma Vase

Large cobalt ground Satsuma vase

 

 

 

MaPo-Kinnordcosmic-key-4-web_orig

MaPo Kinnord  — ‘Cosmic key’

 

 

Ren Buthaud French Art Deco Ceramic Vase Nude Figures

Ren Buthaud French Art Deco ceramic vase with nude figures

 

 

Richard-Erdman

Richard Erdman

 

 

Sophie MacCarthy Open Houses 2013 Wandsworth Artists

Sophie MacCarthy

 

 

Whale-cruising

Cruising whale rider

 

 

Maureen Minchin jug

Maureen Minchin jug

 

Longwy Figural Ceramic Vase, Longwy France Circa 1930

Longwy Figural Ceramic Vase, Longwy France

Circa 1930

 

 

Les Namingha pottery

Les Namingha pottery

 

moon-gazing-hare

Moon gazing hare

 

 

Palais Bulles France

Palais Bulles, France

 

 

 

rudy-autio_1_memoir-clay-slips-and-glaze-1998-thenevicaproject

Rudy Autio

 

Vintage-Retro-Collectible-Blue-White-Ceramic-Glazed-Large-Dragon-Teapot

Lively, large blue dragon teapot

 

 

C

French Art Nouveau vase with floral relief

 

 

Ryuichi Kakurezakis sake bottle stoneware

Ryuichi Kakurezakis sake bottle

6 in. 15 cm in height – stoneware. 2015

photo George Bouret

 

 

Mykonos pottery display wall

Mykonos inventive pottery display wall

 

 

Young-Stephanie ceramic vessels set

Stephanie Young – ceramic vessels set

 

 

photo George Boure Lucien Koonces tokkuri 5½ in. 14 cm in height stoneware 2015

 Lucien Koonces — Tokkuri — 5½ in. 14 cm in height, stoneware 2015

photo George Boure

 

 

Rebecca Zweibel-Boat

Rebecca Zweibel  ceramic ‘Boat’

 

 

Steve Bicknell

Steve Bicknell abstract dancers sculpture

 

 

Satsuma Plate Japan 20th century round with three dragons in low relief

Satsuma Plate with three dragons in low relief

Japan

 

 

Magpie-Cup--Everest-photoVanessa-Mason

Everest base camp

 

 

King-Cobra-

Herbie Hancock and his Shelby Cobra

( built in Venice California. USA)

 

The bunny luck was working for Herbie in 1963 (Rabbit Year) when he acquired this Cobra car on a whim in NY for $6000, with money from his paycheck from his huge hit ‘Watermelon Man’. He had also just recorded a song called King Cobra, which he described as an attempt to “expand the flow [of jazz tunes and chords] so that it would go in directions beyond the usual” This was the beginning of  his expanding journey into fusion music that also included building the Funk genre in the 70’s. He still owns the Cobra, currently worth 2 $million.

 

 

The Beach Boys with Ray Charles ‘Sail On, Sailor’

Masters of Harmony meeting the Master of Soul, 25th Beach Boys Anniversary Tour, 1987

 

 

 

‘Free’ – Prince, Larry Graham, Chaka Khan, Graham Central Station

 

 

Boom Crash Opera — ‘The Best Thing’

 

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Striking clayart designs featuring Monochrome

 

 

Tjinpuna-William

Large incised vase – Tjinpuna William

 

 

Alluring clayart emphasis using the black and white, monochromatic aesthetic.

 

The heightened contrast that is inherent in monochromatic imagery possesses a unique charm and attraction. The enhanced vivacity and extreme tonality of designs in black and white encourages a refreshing perception and appreciation of the emboldened shape and lines that emerge. Becoming confronting and raw, this leads to a sharper definition and clarity, creating the presence of a more definative statement.

Pattern and textures become more enlivened with the higher contrast and the reduced distractions that occur from the absence of colours.

We are constantly reminded of this phenomenon by the natural appearance of shadows and their ability to display a stark contrast, creating a minimilist appearance that can be very captivating.

Here is a compilation of art displaying the enticing emphasis that is possible using a black and white aesthetic.

 

 

 

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Wedgwood – Lee Broom products design

 

 

Arches-VAse-Matthew-Ward

‘Arches Vase’ — Matthew Ward

 

 

Alejandra-Jones

Vintage Black and White ovoid ceramic  vessel  —  Alejandra Jones

 

 

Andrew-Ludick-ceramic vessels

Andrew Ludick

 

 

 

Barbara-Pfeiffer-

Barbara Pfeiffer ceramic black and white raku fish

 

 

 

Between Painting and Sculpture – Handmade Oval Ceramic Forms by Jun Kaneko

Handmade Oval Ceramic Forms by Jun Kaneko

 

 

Christiane Barbato black and white serving bowl

 Black and white serving bowl  —  Christiane Barbato

 

 

Cmielow serwis Antyki i Sztuka Strona 2 Allegro

Cmielow Serwis —  Antyki I Sztuka Strona —  Allegro

 

 

Colleen Halford Ceramics

Colleen Halford Ceramics

 

 

Virgil Ortiz-Taboo-contemporary-ceramic-art

Virgil Ortiz – ‘Taboo’

 

 

 

Antonia Campi

Antonia Campi —  ceramic jug

 

 

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Vintage Black White striped pitcher

 

 

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Bulbous vase with Peau-de-serpent (“snakeskin”) glaze  —  Rene Buthard

 

 

Nicolas-Contreras-www-nicolascontreras-net

 

Nicolas Contreras

 

Beverly-MorrisonWhite-Stoneware-Satin-GlazeHANE-WITH-GESTURE

‘Hanè with gesture’

Beverly Morrison  – White Stoneware Satin Glaze

 

 

CBacon-Pottery-vase-in-ther-wild

CBacon — Pottery vase in the wild

 

Dish-with-Harbour-Scene-circa-1990-Stoneware-off-white-slip-over-a-textured-surface-with-black-grey-and-yellow-painted-and-incised-Jojhn-Maltby

Dish with Harbour Scene circa 1990

Stoneware off white slip over a textured surface with black grey and yellow painted and incised –John Maltby

 

 

Eckhard Engler vase

Eckhard Engler vase

 

 

Glazing Ceramics with Wood Ashes the Japanese Nuka Glaze

Press-Moulded Bottle, Shoji Hamada, 1963

Japanese Nuka Glaze using Wood Ashes

 

 

Godart-Sylvie

Sylvie Godart — tree motif vase

 

 

gorrogarah-binjdil-overcast-tea-tree-creek-dish

Gorrogarah Binjdil — overcast tea tree creek dish

 

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Designer Diarra Bousso

 

 

Alex Hodge We Belong Only to Ourselves Hand Built and Carved Porcelain Vase

Alex Hodge — ‘We Belong Only to Ourselves’

Hand Built and Carved Porcelain Vase

 

 

Cone Bowl Overlaping Lines Penny Fowler

Cone Bowl Overlaping Lines — Penny Fowler

 

 

 

Lemaire Gregoire ceramic vase

Lemaire Gregoire

 

 

Lurking Crab Bowl

Lurking Crab Bowl – C Bacon

 

 

 

Pam Dodds His Miracle hand thrown turned and cut porcelain

Pam Dodds — ‘His Miracle’ hand thrown turned and cut porcelain

 

 

Matthew Ward Studio-pair of ceramic bottles

Matthew Ward Studio

 

 

Pairing Elements Lindsay Rogers Ceramics

Pairing Elements —  Lindsay Rogers Ceramics

 

 

Scheurich Lora. Schlossberg Fat Lava vase

Scheurich — Lora Schlossberg Fat Lava vase

 

 

Schlossberg-Roulette

Schlossberg — ‘Roulette’ vase

 

Barbara Billoud french ceramicist

Barbara Billoud

 

 

 

Alex-Hodge

‘Reimagining the Divine as You’

Sgrafitto bottle – Alex Hodge

This vessel is a part of the series Unsung Muses and references art historical imagery such as Botticelli’s Venus, the Minoan Snake Goddess, Hera, and the Three Muses

 

 

Slab built stoneware vessels are by German artist Monika Debus

Slab built stoneware vessels — Monika Debus

 

 

Elizabeth-Kendall-EK Ceramics

Elizabeth Kendall Black and White  ceramic containers

 

 

Hand painted Wine bottle art

Hand painted Wine bottle art

 

 

irene-vase

Irene Vase  — Zbigniew Śliwowska Wawrzyniak

1957

 

 

Jun-Kaneko Dango sculpture

Jun Kaneko Dango sculpture

 

 

Kare Berven Fjeldsaa-1955.

Kare Berven Fjeldsaa

1955

 

 

picasso

Pablo Picasso – Chouette, 1957

 

 

kristy-jo-beber.-2014-Fish-Plate

Kristy Jo Beber – Fish Plate

2014

 

tusk rhino trail

Tusk Rhino Trail, London

 

 

Pichet Gothique aux feuilles, Picasso,

Pichet Gothique aux feuilles, Picasso

1952, Ist Dibs

 

 

Vicky-Lindo Oh I on wangs could rise

Vicky Lindo —  ‘Oh that I on wings could rise’

 

 

Vintage 50s RUSCHA GRAPHIS Vase Kurt Tschorner West German Pottery Fat Lava

Vintage 50s RUSCHA GRAPHIS Vase Kurt Tschorner West German Pottery

 

 

Ron Mello Lidded ceramic sgrafitto vessel

Ron Mello — Lidded ceramic sgrafitto vessel

 

 

RUPERT-JACK

Rupert Jack sgraffito vase

 

 

slab-built-stoneware-vessels-are-by-German-artist-Monika-Debus

Monika Debus — slab built stoneware vessel

 

 

Sodeisha Legend Yagi Kazuo early White Flower Vase

Yagi Kazuo ‘Early White Flower’ Vase

 

 

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Sculptral vessel from ceramic artist Nicholas Arroyave

 

 

th2studio ceramic plate

th2studio ceramic plate

 

 

Tim-Christensen-

Tim Christensen sgrafitto lidded jar

 

 

Danish modernist decorative plate wall decoration centerpiece Large Black And White Ceramic Wall Plate Centerpiece Starck Andersen 1950s

Danish modernist decorative large Black And White Ceramic Wall Plate Centerpiece –Starck Andersen

1950s

 

 

Vivka and Otto Heino

Vivka and Otto Heino

 

 

White Felix Bowl Set -- Mathew Ward

White Felix Bowl Set — Mathew Ward

 

 

Yvette Glaze -- Shadow Play

Yvette Glaze — Shadow Play

 

 

Zsolnay Hand painted vase with BIRD decor

Zsolnay Hand painted BIRD decor vase

 

 

Ceramic Black and White Spaniel Dog Decorative Sculpture Italy 1960s

Black and White Spaniel Dog Sculpture

Italy 1960s

 

Pin-by-Idaris-Colon-on-Decoracion-Moderna

Aguilart  Decoracion Moderna

 

Tim Christensen Grasslands vase

Tim Christensen ‘Grasslands’ vase

 

 

Sally-Russell totem black white

Sally Russell totem black white

 

 

 

Ruscha-Scheurich-Fat-Lava-and-ES-Emons-Sons-Fat-Lava

Ruscha Scheurich Fat Lava

 

 

A-New-Zealand-Potter-Sue-Scobie

Sue Scobie, NZ

 

 

Kim-Ceramik

Kim Ceramik crackle glaze vase

 

 

Georgie Gardiner b;ack and white vessel

Georgie Gardiner black and white vessel

 

 

 

Sarah-Cihat line series

Sarah Cihat porcelain

 

 

Contemporary Abstract sculpture, Sheryl Zacharia, Rocking Triangle

Abstract sculpture, Sheryl Zacharia– ‘Rocking Triangle’

 

 

Rick-Rudd ceramic bottle

Rick-Rudd ceramic bottle

 

 

 

Martyna Nysk Photography

 Andrea and Rozarka

Martyna Nysk Photography

 

 

Braque-Georges

Georges Braque — Stylized Dove sculpture

 

 

ceramic mugs etched and painted by hand in traditional designs by Acoma Pueblo Potter Diedra Romero

Pair of eramic mugs — Etched and painted by hand in traditional designs

Acoma Pueblo Potter Diedra Romero

 

 

Robert Lallemant French Art Deco Ceramic Vase 1928

Robert Lallemant — French Art Deco Ceramic Vase

1928

 

 

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Indigenous Aussie Art Fair Tarnanthi

The 2022 Taranathi Art Fair

14-17 Oct 2022 online

The Tarnanthi Art Fair supports the ethical production and sale of works of art by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists in Australia

 

 

Katherine NgallamettaMinh Punchiy-2020

Katherine Ngallametta — Minh Punchiy

2020

 

 

Jay-Jurrupula-RostronMimih-Dancing-2022

Jay Jurrupula Rostron — ‘Mimih Dancing’

Lino print on silk fabric

2022

 

Lyarra Lyarra Wren-2022-Anita Ratara

‘Lyarra Lyarra Wren’  – Anita Ratara

 

Mabu Mayi bush tucker screenprinted cotton in shadow frame 2022

‘Mabu Mayi Bush Tucker’ screenprinted cotton in shadow frame — Miss S. Chiguna

2022

 

Mayhmayh Bird 2022 Larry Bangarr

‘Mayhmayh Bird— Larry Bangarr

 

 

Mima-Smart -- Dreaming-2022

Mima Smart — ‘Dreaming’

2022

 

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Syd Bruce Shortjoe posing with his red tomato and potato cod sculptures made from ghost net and recycled materials.

Photograph: Paul Jakubowski

 

 

Adrian Jangala Robertson with this amazing painting Yalpirakinu

Adrian Jangala Robertson —  ‘Yalpirakinu’

 

 

Arts-Ceduna -- Beaver Lennon

‘Salt Lake of Gawler Rangers’  —  Beaver Lennon

 

 

Christine-Tschuna-Rockhole-2021

Christine Tschuna – ‘Rockhole’

2021

 

 

Christine Holroyd 22 My Grandpas Body Paint.

Christine Holroyd  —  ‘My Grandpas Body Paint’

 

I remember my old people. When I was young they all had scarring from initiation on their bodies. Every clan group had their own pattern. I remember my old people painting their bodies with red and white ochre. They painted their bodies every day. You knew what clan group belonged to because of the pattern they painted on their bodies. Nowadays we still paint up only when we dance.

 

Coiled Pandanus Basket 2021Selina Nadjowh

Coiled Pandanus Basket  —  Selina Nadjowh

2021 –  Injalak Arts and Crafts Aboriginal Corporation

 

Connection-To-Country-Kelly-Taylor

‘Connection To Country’  – Kelly Taylor

Acrylic on canvas —  Arts Ceduna

 

 

Gapuwiyak-Lake-Evella-2022

Michael Mungula — ‘Gapuwiyak (Lake Evella)’

Milingimbi Art and Culture – 2022

This is a Gupapuyŋu clan story which the artist’s father Tom Djäwa also painted. The central circle represents both an emu nesting ground and the lake of Gapuwiyak. Emu (Wurrpaṉ) tracks lead to and from the nest within the vertical and horizontal bands. The Wurrpaṉ’s food (yukuwa) bush berries is also represented. These elements are all part of Gupapuyŋu yaraŋu (public) cosmology.

 

Ngalmangiyi Long Necked Turtle 2022 Connie Nayinggul

‘Ngalmangiyi Long Necked Turtle’ — Connie Nayinggul

2022

 

Turtle-Plate-2014

‘Turtle Plate’ — Graeme Beamish Bonnington

 

 

Luke-Djalagarrarra-Bird-2022

Luke Djalagarrarra ‘Bird’

2022

 

Mangroves at Night_Maxine Charlie 2018

‘Mangroves at Night’ – Maxine Charlie

2018

 

Whale Dreaming-2021-Verna Lawrie

‘Whale Dreaming’ — Verna Lawrie

2021

 

 

Kija Country screenprinted linen in shadow frame black 2022Rowena Morgan

‘Kija Country’ screenprinted linen in shadow frame  — Rowena Morgan

 

 

Marie Manadoblock printed cotton

Marie Manadoblock — printed cotton

 

 

Tanya Singer photography

Tanya Singer photography

 

 

Sea Turtle With-Fish -- Elliot Koonutta

‘Sea Turtle With Fish’ — Elliot Koonutta

 

 

 

Thepa Ntjaarra Birds 2022 Anita Ratara

Thepa Ntjaarra Birds’ — Anita Ratara

2022

 

Mervyn Rubuntja etching Yapa Honey Ant Dreaming 2021

Mervyn Rubuntja etching

‘Yapa Honey Ant Dreaming’, 2021

 

 

Nancy Jackson and Mrs Burke near Warakurna Western Australia 2011 photo by Rhett Hammerton

Nancy Jackson and Mrs Burke near Warakurna Western Australia, 2011

photo by Rhett Hammerton

 

Babbarra Womens CentreMududu Mud Crab And Romolo 2022Lucy Yarawanga

Mududu Mud Crab And Romolo  — Lucy Yarawanga-2022

Babbarra Womens Centre

 

Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala

— presented by the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia. The major exhibition features two extraordinary works by Manydjarri and his father, Muwarra Ganambarr amongst an ambitious collection of 90 important barks from artists from Yirrkala and surrounding homelands. MAḎAYIN will tour through the United States until 2024, beginning with the Hood Museum at Dartmouth, September 3- December 4, 2022.

 

Wilson Manydjarri Ganambarr in Milingimbi with Maṉa ga Dhukururru Ancestral Shark and Sacred Rock natural pigments on eucalyptus bark

Wilson Manydjarri Ganambarr in Milingimbi with Maṉa ga Dhukururru Ancestral Shark and Sacred Rock natural pigments on bark

 

 

Dhambit Munungurr Ocean detail 2019 natural pigments and acrylic on eucalyptus bark.

Dhambit Munungurr —  ‘Ocean’

–natural pigments and acrylic on eucalyptus bark

2019

 

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Doris Bush Nungarrayi

 

I blend and overlap colors to bring out the beautiful eye catching effect of ancient art fusing the traditional with the contemporary

Kelly Taylor

“I blend and overlap colors to bring out the beautiful eye catching effect of ancient art fusing the traditional with the contemporary.”

 

 

Living on Country Kelly Taylor

‘Living on Country’ — Kelly Taylor

 

 

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Freda Brady –  Ngayuku Ngura My Country

 

 

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Weaving from the Milingimbi artists

Milingimbi Art and Culture Centre

 

Ngadiyali Russell Wanapuyngu photo-Ben Ward

Ngadiyali Russell Wanapuyngu

photo – Ben Ward

 

 

Tony-Raguwanga-Cameron-Camp-dog-2022-Gunga-Pandanus-Spiralis

Tony Raguwanga Cameron — ‘Dog’

Gunga (Pandanus Spiralis) fibre sculpture

Gapuwiyak Culture and Arts

 

Mylene Holroyd -- Shell Women 2022

Mylene Holroyd — ‘Shell Women’ 2022

 

 

Ashley Fitzgerald

Ashley Fitzgerald

 

 

Freshwater story

‘Freshwater story’ – Tony Raguwanga Cameron –  Acrylic on Canvas

Freshwater story paintings of animals and plants that live in freshwater billabongs like Baypinga (Saratoga), Yangura (long necked turtle), Dakuwa (Freshwater crayfish), Madalaytj (Short necked turtle), Baritjar (catfish), Djaykung (filesnake) and Dhatam (water lily). These are all favourite foods for Yolngu.

 

 

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Vibrant Belgian Designer in Marrakech

 

 

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Abstract face plate — LRNCE Ceramics  Artist Laurence Leenaert

Marrakech, Morocco

 

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Laurence Leenaert

 

Leenaert discovers her designer trajectory in Morocco

 

As a creative free spirit, lured by the abundance of sunshine, arid climes, swaying palms and the rich artisan tradition of the North African Maghreb, Laurence Leenaert arrived in Marrakesh on an intuitive wim and a prayer carrying not much except her sewing machine and a desire for more exotic artistic expression. Maybe she was seeking inspiration from a distant, orientalist mystique similar to the likes of Matisse, Delacroix, Laurent and Lichfield. This spontaneous decision has proved to be very fortuitous because she now has a burgeoning design empire manifested from a love for the local tribal arts and their traditional materials, while managing to encounter the right people at the right time. This also included applying her natural design talents and the knowledge that she aquired from past studies in Fashion Design at Kask, in Ghent and a productive internship at Bless in Berlin.

 

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‘Shens’ painting  — LRNCE

 

Favouring rich, grounded, earthy palettes, highlighted by freewheeling, minimalist line drawings in Piccaso, Miro modernist styles while infused with Morrocan tribal patterns and ritualistic symbols, Leenaerts multidisciplinary designs exude a joy and respect for the local artisans she readily embraced. Her diverse product line now includes textiles, ceramics, clothing, wall hangings, rugs and furniture based on impulsive, resorceful local collaborations, beautifully handcrafted by a broad collection of resident artists.

Founded in 2013, LRNCE has become the lifestyle brand that Leenaert had dreamt of while back in Belgium and has astutly brought into fruition.

 

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Lrnce ceramic vase

 

 

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Jacquard Fabric Chairlrnce objects chair

 

 

Lrnce-Studio

Lrnce Studio bottle vase

 

 

Lrnce-Studio-Neas Terra Cotta' Cotton Jacket

‘Neas Terra Cotta’ Cotton Jacket with Jacquard Fabric

 

 

 

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LRNCE Hand painted vase

 

 

lrnce wall painting and decor

lrnce wall painting and decor

 

 

 

Hand painted twin handled vase by Laurence Leenaert

Hand painted twin handled vase with relief panel

Laurence Leenaert

 

 

Henri Matisse Zorah on the Terrace 1912 Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Moscow

Henri Matisse ‘Zorah on the Terrace’, 1912

Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

 

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LRNCE soft furnishings and ceramics

 

 

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lrnce – ‘Le Palmier’ vase

height 24 ins

 

 

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Lrnce ceramic charger

 

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LRNCE hand painted ceramic vases and objects

 

 

Woven Jacquard Fabric Pouffelrnce textiles pouffes - Hanif

 Pouffe – lrnce textiles pouffes  – Woven Jacquard Fabric –  Hanif

 

 

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lrnce ceramic vessels

 

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Laurence Leenaert in Marrakech courtyard

 

 

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Four handpainted LRNCE plates

 

 

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Laurence in her Marrakech studio

photo by Jack Johns

 

 

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LRNCE embroided cotton hanging

 

 

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Large ‘Chetan’ vase – LRNCE

 

 

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Embroided cotton wall hanging – Lrnce

 

 

Ayoub wearing the Anwar shirt - Lrnce studio

Ayoub wearing the Anwar shirt

 

 

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lrnce ceramic abstract fruit dish

 

 

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Laurence Leenaert line drawing on vases

 

 

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Morrocan vases by LRNCE

 

 

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‘Scene de campagne’ — Jacques Azema

1971

 

1855 Moroccan Saddles His Horse Hermitage Museum Eugene_Ferdinand_Victor_Delacroix

‘Moroccan Saddles His Horse’  Eugene Delacroix – 1855

Hermitage Museum

 

 

Lrnce Morroccan pottery

Lrnce – modernist pottery

 

 

lrnce burnt orange glazed pottery

Lrnce – rich orange glaze pottery

 

 

a royal palace in Morocco Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant

‘A Royal Palace in Morocco’ — Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant

 

 

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Embroided cushion — lrnce

 

 

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French Tribal Dance ovoid vessel

 

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Large Saladier bowls

 

 

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lrnce ‘Gabriela’ Hand Painted Ceramic Large Saladier

 

 

jalil wool embroided on cotten panel

Jalil — wool embroided on cotten framed panel

 

 

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Large lrnce charger

 

 

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LRNCE cotten jacket

 

 

Marrakech Jemaa El Fna 1990 for Vogue Paris Kristen McMenamy by Peter Lindbergh

Marrakech Jemaa El Fna  — Kristen McMenamy by Peter Lindbergh

1990 Paris Vogue

 

 

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lrnce store display,  A New Tribe, London

 

 

Paul and Talitha Getty in Marrakech courtyard

Paul and Talitha Getty in Marrakech courtyard

photo by Peter Lindbergh, 1970

 

 

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White wrought iron modernist line chairs – LRNCE

 

 

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Liberation from The Tyranny of the Inevitable

 

Amanda Ward - At The Top

Amanda Ward – ‘At The Top’

 

Marvelous melange of uplifting clayarts.

 

Presenting a collection of inspired ceramic creativity, unleashed by artists with an innate instinct for free expression, zaniness and feel-good originality. Kitchy clay constructs beyond any pretence that invite you to embrace life by virtue of their frivolous flirtations of flair and brilliance.

A celebration of those who dare to promote a shift in the paradigm to deliver an enriching fullfilment for the aficionados of the quirky, surreal and audacious. During challenging times, indulging in art that’s infused with a free spirit of creative abandon is invariably uplifting and therapeutic. Saluting all worshipers of the whimsy and flamboyant.

 

leunig---Tyranny of the Inevitable

In Curly Flat, people often change direction and turn off roads to free themselves from the expected way ahead.

escaping ‘The Tyranny Of The Inevitable’ —  Michael Leunig

 

 

Life-Force

‘Life Force’ – Michael Leunig

 

 

Small-dark-blue-and-silver-ceramic-Sun-table-lamp-by-Georges-Pelletier

Golden/silver ceramic Sun table lamp by Georges Pelletie

 

Large-Ceramic-Sculpture-or-Lamp-Base-Toro-One-of-a-Kind-by-Dominique-Pouchain

Large Ceramic Sculpture or Lamp Base ‘Toro’ One of a Kind by Dominique Pouchain

 

 

jiha-Moon- red lips vessel

Jiha Moon

 

 

Clemens Briels Lasenora -- Passionada

Clemens Briels Lasenora — ‘Passionada’

 

 

 

Stacey-Manser-Knight female swimmer drinking cup

Stacey Manser Knight female swimmer drinking cup

 

 

Stacey Manser Knightsexy kitten candleholder

Stacey Manser Knight – sexy kitten candle holder

 

 

Steve Bicknell turquoise blues figure sculpture

Steve Bicknell — turquoise blue garden figure sculpture

 

 

The_Messy_Teddy09_Agustina-Garrigou-2018

‘The Messy Teddy’ 09 –Agustina Garrigou

2018

 

 

The Wings of Love----Reflection of the Soul” by Oleh Lesiuk.

‘The Wings of Love’ —- ‘Reflection of the Soul’ by Oleh Lesiuk

 

 

 

Turquoise Fish Totem garden sculpture

Turquoise Fish Totem garden sculpture

 

 

Tigger tiger Naughty Cat by Nolan Windholtz of Round Tree Pottery

Tigger tiger Naughty Cat by Nolan Windholtz of Round Tree Pottery

 

 

Vertical-Lenticular-Jug-Alfajar

Vertical Lenticular Jug by Alfajar

 

 

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Abandoned Spainish church converted into a mural-covered skatepark

 

 

 

Monumental highway vase at Accolay Poterie

Monumental highway vase at Accolay Potterie, France

 

 

Accolay Potteries vintage 1960s ceramic vase

Accolay Potteries vintage ceramic vase

1960s

 

Akio Takamori face vessel

Akio Takamori face vessel

 

mendes-clay-projects

Jenny Mendez

 

Kelly Wearstler-African Sculpture

Kelly Wearstler – African Sculpture

 

 

Niki-de-Saint-Phalle-Bete-gentille-ARTZUID-2011-archief

Niki de Saint Phalle — Bete gentille

ARTZUID

 

 

Cubist-Alexander-ArchipenkoWoman-with-a-Fan

Alexander Archipenko — ‘Woman with a Fan’

1914

 

Bag-Lady-Ice-Floes-2011-Debra-Sloan

‘Bag Lady Ice Floes’ — Debra Sloan

 

 

Beautiful green Mimetite with pseudo cubic orange Wulfenite

Rising Green Duck — Green Mimetite with pseudo cubic orange Wulfenite

 

 

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Botanically enhanced bust

 

 

Birger Johannes Kaipiainen was one of the best known ceramicists in Finland

Birger Johannes Kaipiainen

 

 

Bohemian Crystal octopus- designed by Jiri Pacine

Bohemian Crystal metamorphiic marvel octopus- designed by Jiri Pacine

 

 

1980s Rosenthal ceramic CABINET PLATE with black white Fornasetti image

 Rosenthal ceramic Cabinet plate with black white Fornasetti image

1980s

 

Bluewater Avery Venus Egg of Time Sculpture

Bluewater Avery ‘Venus Egg of Time’ Sculpture

 

 

Ceramic octopus sculpture by JUDY FOX

Octopus sculpture by Judy Fox

 

 

Carafe a liqueur de marque Garnier Liqueurs Enghien

Carafe –Garnier Liqueurs, Enghien France

Made in Italy

 

 

Cloisonne work Ox TurningUniverse MasterZhang Tonglu

Cloisonne work ‘Ox Turning Universe’ — Master Zhang Tonglu

 

 

 

Colin Burn‘s Pearl Royale chess set

Colin Burn‘s Pearl Royale chess set

 

 

Daniel and the Lion in terracotta sculpture by WilliamNewland from the 1950s

Daniel and the Lion in terracotta by WilliamNewland

1950s

 

Figure of a woman ceramic handmade sculpture

‘Figure of a woman’ ceramic handmade sculpture —

Pablo – Art of Toreadors, Bulls

 

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Picasso – ‘Taureau’ terracotta charger plate. 1957

 

Since his childhood in Spain, Pablo Picasso was an avid fan of bullfighting. He was captivated by the intense interaction between the bull and the matador, the flashy machismo and the theatrical drama. He used the Banderilleros (bullfighters} and bulls as subject matter in numerous paintings, sculpture and ceramic art, displaying his exceptional virtuosity.

 

 

Pablo Picasso linocut toros vallauris the matador 1959

Pablo Picasso –  linocut Toros, The Matador

Vallauris, 1958

 

 

Pablo Picasso Taureau 1945

Pablo Picasso painting ‘Taureau’

1945

 

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‘Les vendangeurs’ (The Grape Harvesters)

A linocut of a reclining  woman and a Picador

Pablo Picasso, 1959

 

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‘Mostra Picasso’, MIC Faenza

 

 

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Pablo Picasso — ceramic Centaure jug

 

 

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Pablo PicassoMatador’

Featured at the Picasso Century, NGV, see below

 

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Corrida –  The death of a woman bullfighter

1933

 

 

Bull, Skull, Fruit, Pitcher -- Pablo Picasso

Bull, Skull, Fruit, Pitcher — Pablo Picasso

 

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Dominique Pouchain vintage bull sculpture

France

 

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Terracotta twin handled vase with pastel decor — Pablo Picasso

 

 

Ceramic tri-legged-bird-jug

Tri Legged bird jug

 

 

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Picasso Bull statue, NY

 

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Pablo Picasso zoomorphe vase  ‘La Tarasque’

1954

 

Picasso 1909 Woman with Mandolin Hermitage St Petersburg

Picasso  — ‘Woman with Mandolin’, 1909

Hermitage, St. Petersburg

 

 

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Pablo Picasso ceramic sculptures

MIC Faenza, Italy

 

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Bull vessel – Pablo Picasso

LAMA

 

 

Le Carmen des Carmen-1964.

Pablo Picasso — ‘Le Carmen des Carmen’

1964

 

Picasso-bull lithograph

Picasso – bull lithograph

 

Picasso-Madoura matadfor charger

Picasso – Madoura Matador charger

 

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Museo Buitrago Ceramic with Bulls Head by Picasso

 

 

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Model make-up inspired by a Picasso painting

 

 

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‘Buste de matador’ — Pablo Picasso

1970

 

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Stage Costume by Pablo Picasso for Parade, 1917

 

The Corrida by Pablo Picasso

The Corrida by Pablo Picasso

 

The Matador bronze sculpture by Rintoul Booth

The Matador bronze sculpture by Rintoul Booth

 

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The Belarussian-born widow of Fernand Léger, Nadia Khodossevitch, donated many works from their private collection to the Soviet goverment in 1955 and this Picasso piece ended up at the Taskent Museum in Uzbekistan.

 

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French MCM bull pitcher/jug

 

 

Vintage Jimenez Ceramics California Pottery Bull and Matador

Vintage Jimenez Ceramics, California Pottery Bull and Matador

 

 

Vintage-Spanish-Matador-Ceramic-Figurine-Bull-Fighter-12ins-Tall

Vintage Spanish Matador Ceramic Figurine Bull Fighter

 

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Pablo Picasso – ‘Cavalier et cheval’

 

 

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Pablo Picasso — ‘Gros oiseau corrida’,

1953

 

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Pablo Picasso — Bust of a Woman with Hat

MutualArt

 

1955 Pablo Picasso Matador and a Bull Ceramics Plate

 Pablo Picasso Matador and a Bull Ceramics Plate

1955  — Chairish

 

 

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Pablo Picasso — ‘Les Banderilles’

1962

 

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Picasso Matado

 

 

Blessing With A Bull A Gift For Pablo Picasso Vladimir Fomin

Blessing With A Bull A Gift For Pablo Picasso

Vladimir Fomin

 

 

Before The Thrust

Before The Thrust Pablo Picasso

 

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Brutalist Sculpture of Matador and Bull

MCM Vintage

 

Bull head rhyton pottery Crete 1500-1450_BC

Bull head rhyton pottery, Crete

1500-1450_BC

 

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Vintage Matador Bull painted figurines

Elvira Parisi etsy

 

 

Le matador et femme Е loiseau

Le matador et femme Е loiseau – Pablo Picasso

 

 

MALAGA SPAIN Woman 1961 in the Museo Picasso Malaga Collection belongs to the extensive series of sheet metal sculptures that Pablo Picasso made in the early 1960s

Museo Picasso Malaga Collection belongs to the extensive series of sheet metal sculptures that Pablo Picasso made in the early 1960s

 

 

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‘Knight in Armor’  Madoura ceramic charger – Pablo Picasso

1951

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Picasso terracotta bull

 

 

The Picasso Century at the NGV (National Gallery,Victoria)

10 June to 20 October,2022

 

‘The Picasso Century’ charts the remarkable career of Pablo Picasso in dialogue with the many artists, poets and intellectuals with whom he intercepted and interacted throughout the 20th century. Exclusively developed for the NGV by the Centre Pompidou and the Musée national Picasso-Paris, the exhibition features close to 90 works by Picasso alongside over 100 works by more than 50 of his contemporaries. Extraordinarily productive until the age of  91, Picasso bestrode the modernist era like a colossus.

 

Three-figuress-under-a-tree-Picasso

‘Three figuress under a tree’ – Picasso Century Exhibition

 

Bather with beach ball

‘Bather with beach ball’ – Pablo Picasso

 

 

Reclining Woman-Picasso photo by Kate-Shanasy

‘Reclining Woman’ – Picasso

photo by Kate Shanasy

 

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‘A very happy picture’ by Dorothea Tanning

1947

 

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Crying Woman umbrella

NGV

 

Invisible-Lion-Horse-Sleeping-Woman

‘Invisible Lion Horse Sleeping Woman’ – Salvador Dali

 

 

Madoura Pottery Vallauris manufacturer Woman lamp vase-1955

Madoura Pottery Vallauris Picasso Woman lamp vase

1955

 

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Picasso –  Vase de fleurs et compotier’ (Vase of flowers and fruit dish)

 

 

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The Kiss (Le Baiser) – Pablo Picasso

1929

 

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Pablo Picasso’s ‘Portrait of a woman’ (Portrait de femme)

1938

 

 

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Picasso and Françoise Gilot in 1951

Picasso Century Exhibition

 

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“La Baie de Cannes –Picasso

 

 

Buste-De-Femme

Buste De Femme — Pabhlo Picasso

 

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Wifredo Lam painting  ‘SANS TITRE’

1942

 

 

 

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Praying Mantis dancing on Divine Breath

 

 

What a remarkable array of creatures with artistically diverse designs our planet has been blessed with

 

 

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Praying Mantis perilously close to a just trimmed Diosma branch

 

 

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Morning-sun worship – Minnie and Azure

 

I could see by the way that Minnie and Azure were relishing the early morning sun that it was shining sumptuously. It looked so enticing it made me extrememly motivated to get in the garden, bathe in some sunshine and do the garden maintenance. My meandering, eliptically shaped diosma bush was in dire need of a trim so I began its manicure with some long secateurs.

To my surprise I noticed that a praying mantis, displaying remarkable courage, had come to say hello while I was chpping away. As I was standing there admiring his/hers delicate form and vivid jade colour, it started vibrating enthusiastically on the branch. Filled with deep wonder, I was then amazed when it began to sway on the branch, rocking side to side, giving me the impression that a breeze was blowing, yet I couldn’t feel any sensation of air movement. I grabbed my phone and took a snap (see above) as a testimony to the Sunday morning celebratory solar shuffle of the praying mantis, who had flirted with its mortality to pay a visit.      

 

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Diosma Confetti Bush also known as Divine Breath

 

 

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Manicured Diosma shrub with large lemon tea tree in background

 

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Sometimes I use the symbiotic combination of fresh diosma mixed with lemon Tea tree for enhancing my breathing. Another great combo is fresh lavender and eucalyptus leaves.

 

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Mantide Geotermica by Fabiosar

 

 

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Justin Baker – praying mantis on a fence with a wondefully shaped triangular head

 

 

Another fascinatling encounter with an unexpected green visitor.

 

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Kwan yin statue with visiting cicada

 Observing the Sounds (or Cries) of the human World (Kwan Yin translation)

 

I had just finished wrapping up a photoshoot with a model at my home studio and had decided to unwind and meditate. Gradually I began to hear a clicking sound and when I opened my eyes I noticed a cicada, perched on the third eye of my Kwan Yin statue in front of me. I had never seen a cicada in my home before and as I was wondering how it got there, while also admiring its innate sense of symmetry, it suddenly startled me by flying towards me and brushing me between the eyes. Then it proceeded to walk around me as I was sitting cross-legged on the rug, while still making a clicking sound. Welcome to the mystical cicada world.

 

Life imitating art

 

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Live green lizard of remarkable resemblance getting acquainted with a brass lizard

 

After publishing this post, a French ceramicist informed  me about the intriguing visitation of a live lizard coming into her home to sit with her lizard sculpture.

 

 

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Agile gracile opossum  — Giordano Rossi photo

 

 

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Art Deco crackled and polychrome decorated ceramic vase with eating deer Royal Boch Keramis, atelier Catteau

Carlo Bonte

 

 

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High flying jay by Lasse Kurkela

 

 

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Snowy owl — photo by Brian Kushner

 

 

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Bernard Palissy, 1565-85.

© Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

 

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Flying geese

 

 

Alex-Maisey Australian Lyre Bird

Alex Maisey  — Foraging Australian Lyre Bird

 

 

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Sulphur crested cockatoo—Alison Langevad

 

 

Australian water-dragon on rock

Aussie water dragon

 

 

Bennetts Wallaby snacking on a Casuarina tree for breakfast in Tasmania

Bennetts Wallaby eating a breakfast snack from a Casuarina tree

Tasmania

 

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Rare image of a blanket octopus

 

 

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Sleeping herd of elephants in Yunnan

 

 

 

@yashasnarayan Wild.Arc leopard reclining

Leopard reclining — @yashasnarayan Wild.Arc

 

 

Woman-with-Fox-Jessie-Mooy

‘Woman with fox’ – Jessie Mooy

@jessiemooy

Sculpture in faience —I try to express the strong bond that exists between animals and humans in a poetic, delicate and lyrical manner using different clays and firing methods. Animals always speak to us with their eyes.

 

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‘Lady with a wild Cat’  — Jessie Mooy

 

 

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‘Aren’t I Pretty’ by Con Duyvestyn

 

 

Chamaleon symmetry

Chamaleon symmetry

 

 

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Wompoo fruit dove

 

 

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Friendly octopus in South Africa

 

 

red asasssain bugs

Red assassin bugs

 

 

Red cushion sea star off the coast of Belize

Red cushion sea star off the coast of Belize

 

 

red-fox by Konsta Punkka

 Red fox – photo by Konsta Punkka

 

 

Stacey Manse Knight

Stacey Manser Knight – red fox pourer

 

 

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Large 10.5 inch creamware vase from Amphora Czechoslovakia

1920s

 

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Kookaburra at water fountain

Rob Clay photo

 

 

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 Octopus in the Torre Guaceto state nature reserve

photo by Romano Gianluca

 

Free riding frog on turtle at Padang Indonesia by photographer Yan Hidayat

Freeriding frog on a turtle at Padang Indonesia

photographer Yan Hidayat

 

Gran Canaria Island--Juan Ramon Rodriguez

Gran Canaria Island–Juan Ramon Rodriguez photographer

Sardinia

 

 

Blue banded bees that use buzz pollination

Blue banded bee  using buzz pollination

 

 

Blue-crowned-Motmot

Blue crowned Motmot

 

 

Brush tailed Rock Wallabies Petrogale penicillata having a tender moment in the Little River Gorge in East Gippsland Jim Reside

Cuddling Brush Tailed Rock Wallabies (Petrogale penicillata)

Little River Gorge in East Gippsland — photo Jim Reside

 

photo by Touhid Parvez Biplob Chestnut tailed starling Sturnia malabarica Satchari National Park

 Chestnut tailed starling Satchari National Park

photo by Touhid Parvez Biplob

 

 

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Trinidad crab — Vitorb Barbosa photo

 

 

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Aynsley English Bone China Hand Painted Butterfly Tea Cup and Saucer Set

 

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Regal ring-necked snake

 

 

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Eastern spinebill

Nelson Victoria, — photo by John Eley

 

 

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An emu wandering thru the suburban streets of Adelaide

 

 

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Blood pheasant

 

 

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Kangaroos feasting on fruit

 

 

 

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Black faced Monarch at Toolangi

Photography by Jamie Smith Morvell

 

 

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 Colourful grain silo murals —  Jimmy DVate

Rochester in Victoria, Australia

 

Jonas Gratzer sea turtle

Jonas Gratzer — slow cruising sea turtle

 

 

Jurgen Otto-peacock spider

Jurgen Otto – newly discovered peacock spider with Eastern calligraphic like markings

 

 

Giraffe in the foresst hand carved wooden bowls by gordon pembridge

‘Giraffe in the forest — hand carved wooden bowl by Gordon Pembridge

 

 

konstapunkka@kpunkkaA Short eared owl and Ural owl

konstapunkka@kpunkkaA — Ural owl

 

 

Colorful Lady Gouldian Finch

Colorful Lady Gouldian Finch

 

 

Lae-cassowary living dinosaur from Queensland

A Lae-cassowary living dinosaur from Queensland rainforest

 

 

Hand crafted Lisa Lloyd Bee

Hand crafted Lisa Lloyd Bee

 

 

Orphaned-twin-swamp-wallaby-joeys

Swamp wallaby joeys

 

 

long legged jacana the jesus bird

Long legged Jacana, known as the Jesus bird because it appears to be walking on water

 

 

Martyna Nysk Photography Beauty and her wolfie

 ‘Beauty and her wolfie’

Martyna Nysk Photography

 

Melbourne street artist Jimmy Dvate known for his depictions of the natural world painted the Goorambat silos in Victorias north

Draught horses mural at Goorambat Silos – painted by Jimmy DVate

 

 

Noduled Sea Star Patomarazul

Noduled Sea Star  — Patomarazul

 

 

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Masked Owl

 

Barn Owl David Cooke Ceramic Sculptures

Barn Owl by David Cooke Ceramic Sculptures

 

 

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It’s easy to see why the orange bellied parrot (sitting top middle) loves the flowering gum

 

 

Papilio machaon the queen of butterflies

Papilio machaon — the queen of butterflies

 

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Tree hugging goanna also known as a lace monitor

 

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Climbing Goanna in Victoria, Australia

 

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Dragonesque Goanna with Chris Humfrey at Wild Action Zoo

Victoria

 

 

Possum at Boonah Park

Young possum at Boonah Park, QLD

 

 

 

The right handed crab apple poacher. Crimson Rosella

The right handed crab apple poacher –  Crimson Rosella

 

Shanghai-Lao-Wu-Snow-Owl

Shanghai Lao Wu —  Snow Owl

 

 

Spilostethus pandurus is a species of ground bug by Flavio

Spilostethus pandurus  ground bug by Flavio

 

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Kangaroo watching an early morning Tasmanian sunrise

 

Mosaic Pelican seat -- _Bob Sherri Hunter

Mosaic Pelican twin seat — Sherri Warner Hunter

Hacienda Mosaico

 

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Harbor Seal—Sherri Warner Hunter

 

Scarlet Banksia -- Nick Monaghan

Banksia coccinea – Scarlet Banksia — Nick Monaghan

 

 

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Red spotted frog — Rebecca Hillman

 

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Chinese porcelain  table lamp

 

 

A pair of glossy black cockatoos on Kangaroo Island. Photograph Michael Barth Kangaroo Island

A pair of glossy black cockatoos on Kangaroo Island.

Photograph Michael Barth

 

Heicomus_Butterfly_cup by Irina S. Zaytceva

Heicomus Butterfly cup – Irina S. Zaytceva

 

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Yosemite squirrel— photo by Chris Hood

 

 

@aussieark young Tasmanian Devil

Young Tassie Devil

 

 

Australian bustard Barkly Tablelands NT Lisa Nunn

Australian bustard  – Photo — Lisa Nunn

Barkly Tablelands NT

 

 

endangered kea is the worlds only alpine parrot

The endangered kea is the worlds only alpine parrot

 

 

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Natural bird figure cave facade – Kyneton

 

 

Martyna Nysk Photography-girl in white dress with donkey

Martyna Nysk Photography

 

 

purple-bird - Violet-backed starling

Violet backed starling

 

 

William-Robinsong--ang-gang-cockatoo

William Robinson–Gang Gang cockatoo

 

Young tiger climbing a tree Ranthambore tiger reserve India Richard Barrett

A young tiger climbing a tree

Ranthambore tiger reserve India, Richard Barrett photo

 

 

Large vase with handles in majolica decorated in symbolist style

Symbolist style tiger vase

 

 

Marcel-Boucher-Extremely-Rare-Art-Deco-Praying-Mantis-Costume-Brooch-c-1941-

Marcel Boucher — rare Art deco Praying Mantis brooch

c 1937

1st Dibs

 

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Praying Mantis

 

 

Beatrice Wood Centre –

Patrick Crabb – A Search for the Ancients

 

 

Patrick-Crabb

 

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Ceramic shard Jar by Patrick Crabb

 

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JAC 60th Anniversary

 

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Greg Daly  — round vase, 2021

Line of Sight series – – Photo – John Daly

 

‘SIXTY’ exhibition —  The Journal of Australian Ceramics 60th Anniversary 1962–2022 is a special ADC On Tour exhibition project presented in partnership with The Australian Ceramics Association to acknowledge this significant anniversary.

Where: ADC Australian Design Centre101–115 William Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney

Thursday 31 March 2022 to 25th May 2022  – 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm AEDT

The Journal of Australian Ceramics (JAC) has, over its sixty years of print publication, presented the history of ceramics in Australia. The JAC is unique in its enduring focus on all areas of ceramic art practice, finding a balance between aesthetic, technique and education.

Free event: bookings essential

The exhibiting artists are:

Glenn Barkley | Kirsten Coelho | Greg Daly | Pippin Drysdale | Dan Elborne | Penny Evans | Honor Freeman | Susan Frost | Shannon Garson | Patsy Hely | Alison Milyika Carroll | Jeffery Mincham | Damon Moon | David Ray | Ben Richardson | Tania Rollond | Owen Rye | Jane Sawyer | Yul Scarf | Vipoo Srivilasa | Kenji Uranishi | Gerry Wedd

 

 

Granite Warriors ceramic vessels --Pippin Drysdale

‘Granite Warriors’ ceramic vessels — Pippin Drysdale

 

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Pippin Drysdale

 

 

Shanon Garson--Beauty and Terror- 2020 -- wheel thrown porcelain

Shanon Garson–‘Beauty and Terror’ – 2020

 

1._Dan Elborne -- Conduit_sample_collection_hero_image_2021_Photography_by_Grace_Yu_of_Studio_Bitsy

Dan Elborne — ‘Conduit’ – Slipcast stained stoneware

 

 

Damon Moon fox profile

Damon Moon

 

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Alison Milyika Carroll — Kungkarangkalpa –  ‘Seven Sisters’

2022

 

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David Ray – ‘Mutated Tureen’ 

2021. — Photo – Chris Saunders

 

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Jeffery Mincham – ‘Early morning mist clearing to fine’

High walled bowl form

2021

 

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Gerry Wedd – ‘Welcome Pot’

2015 – Photo–Grant Hancock

 

 

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‘Here the time flies’ – Glenn Barkley

 

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Glenn Barkley

 

 

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Bulb Vase  –  Glenn Barkley

 

 

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‘Small acts of care and repair’  – Honor Freeman

2021

 

 

Jane Sawyer_-- Collapse

Jane Sawyer  —   ‘Collapse’

 

 

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Jeff Mincham

 

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Tania Rollond – ‘Rise and Fall’

2021

 

 

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Yul Scarf – ‘You keep paying 2 Wreck Me’ – ceramic plate mended with coins QR code linking to Tony Alberts work

2021

 

 

Greg Daly-Through the Mist-2022-lustre-glaze-ceramic

Greg Daly- – ‘Through the Mist’–lustre glaze ceramic

2022

 

 

Greg Daly-Brooding_Sky_2019

Greg Daly – ‘Brooding Sky’

2019

 

 

Man.garr Marsupium / PennyEvans_2021 ceramic pendant

Man.garr Marsupium  – Penny Evans

2021

 

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Owen Rye – Jar

2019

 

 

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Su-nak (Canine) and Wi-laa (Feline) –  Vipoo Srivilasa

Stoneware, underglaze, gold lustre, acrylic and mixed media. Photo:Andrew Barcham

2019

 

 

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Kenji Uransihi – Hero Image

 

 

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Ben Richardson – ‘Sheltering’

2022

 

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Susan Frost – Rise A

Photo – Grant Hancock

 

 

The exhibition will tour to 17 art centres across Australia from 2022 to 2026.

Australian Design Centre, NSW 31 March – 25 May 2022
Araluen Arts Centre, NT 17 June – 14 August 2022
Cairns Art Gallery, QLD 15 October – 11 December 2022
Cowra Regional Gallery, NSW 11 February – 19 March 2023
JamFactory, SA 4 May – 9 July 2023
ArtGeo Cultural Centre, WA 14 July – 27 August 2023
Gippsland Art Gallery, VIC 9 September -19 November 2023
Ararat Gallery TAMA, VIC 30 November 2023 – 25 February 2024
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, TAS 15 March – 19 May 2024
Design Tasmania, TAS 31 May – 22 July 2024
Tamworth Regional Gallery, NSW 9 August – 29 September 2024
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, NSW 12 October – 1 December 2024
Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW 13 December 2024 – 7 February 2025
Canberra Potters, Watson Arts Centre, ACT 20 March – 13 April 2025
Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, NSW 2 May – 6 July 2025
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, QLD 16 August – 12 October 202

 

 

More events for 2022 —

 

International Artists Residency Exchange (IARE)workshops 2022

Saint Raphaël  CÔTE D’AZUR

 

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Sharon Thompson Workshop – 17 May 2022 – 27 May 2022
‘Having fun with Decals’

Using decals in a contemporary manner while learning how to use your own artwork to create decals with Sharon Thompson, designer, artist extraordinaire. Price includes materials. Weekday lunches are to be determined.

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Sharon Thompson

 

 

Sharon Thompson having fun with decals workshop

Sharon Thompson

 

 

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Sharon Thompson — having fun with decals

 

 

Anthony Merino  – 18 Jul 2022 – 23 Jul 2022
‘Symmetrical Patterning on 3-Dimensional Forms’

 

 

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Anthony Merino Symmetrical Pattern on 3-Dimensional Forms

 

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Anthony Merino

 

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Anthony Merino Symmetrical Patterning

 

 

Natasha Dikareva  — 6 Sep 2022 – 15 Sep 2022
‘Dreams in Clay: Creating Personal Mythology in the South of France’

Dikareva is known for her surreal, exquisitely formed human figures which often morph into other biological forms such as birds, fish, clouds and trees. Humans and other living creatures are united in the experience of life.

 

 

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‘Here Was a Bee’ – Natasha Dikareva

2020

 

 

Early Bird Brings Lucid Dreams 2 by Natasha Dikareva

‘Early Bird Brings Lucid Dreams 2’ by Natasha Dikareva

 

 

Cloud Man by Natasha Dikareva

‘Cloud Man’  –  Natasha Dikareva

 

 

Inhale Deeply and Say Om ceramic sculpture

‘Inhale Deeply and Say Om’ — Natasha Dikareva

 

 

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Natasha Dikareva

 

 

Natasha Dikreva-- Letting Out

Natasha Dikreva — ‘Letting Out’

 

 

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‘Smila’ – Natasha Dikreva

– stoneware, glazes, blown glass

 

 

Do-You-Remember-Your-Last-Night-Dream

Do You Remember Your Last Night Dream? – – Natasha Dikreva

 

Natasha Dikreva figure sculpture - Dont Touch Your Face Unless Your Hand is Golden 2020

 

Natasha Dikreva  – ‘Dont Touch Your Face Unless Your Hand is Golden’

2020

 

 

 

 

‘Echoes of the River’ — Nada Murphy exhibition

Create – Connect – Country

March 16 – April 9 2022
Mossenson Galleries – 115 Hay Street, Subiaco, Perth

 

In Echoes of the River I explore the source of the Avon River at the place where it emerges from the ground. Here it reveals it ancient origins and the intersect with an indelible human imprint echoing across seasons and time – Nada Murphy

 

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‘Spillway at the Crossing II’   –   Nada Murphy

Pate de verre glass bowl

 

 

Quajabin-Nada Murphy

‘Quajabin’ – Nada Murphy

 

 

Riverbank After the Rain II - Riparian-Series-Pate-de-verre-glass-vessel-10-x-19-cm

‘Riverbank After the Rain II’ – Nada Murphy

 

 

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‘View from the Peak’  Nada Murphy

2021 – oil on canvas

 

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‘Climbing the trees II’ – Nada Murphy

 

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Does Not Hold Water  – Nada Murphy

Coiled vessels with black fleece

 

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‘Salt preserved II’ – Nada Murphy

 

 

They always bring you home©Nada Murphy

‘They always bring you home’ — ©Nada Murphy

 

 

Stardust and Other Dreams

‘Stardust and Other Dreams’   –  Nada Murphy

 

 

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Small Works, Great Artists annual exhibition

 

Erskine, Hall & Coe are currently presenting their annual Small Works, Great Artists exhibition for the fourth year running. The show features remarkable ceramic art work by British and international talent. This is running till the 11th March. Particularly distinctive are new, hand-built sculptures by Taiwanese potter, Zung-Lung Tsai and a beautifully decorated tea bowl by Shoji Kamoda dating from the 1970s, displayed alongside green-glazed, geometric forms by Karen Bennicke, reminiscent of architecture, and thrown coloured stoneware by Jennifer Lee, some of which she produced in Japan.  Other highlights of the show are a stunning footed bowl by Lucie Rie, made of porcelain with golden manganese glaze and terracotta detailing, and a pouring vessel from 1958, the first piece we’ve displayed that was made together by Rie and Hans Coper.

 

15 Royal Arcade,
28 Old Bond Street,
London, W1S 4SP

+44 (0) 20 7491 1706
[email protected]

 

 

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Claudi Casanovas- ‘Block No.17′

2001

 

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Claudi Casanovas- ‘Block No.17′

 

 

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Small Works, Great Artists annual exhibition

London 2022

 

 

Gertrud Vasegaard Beaker with geometrical rhomboids-1970s

Gertrud Vasegaard Beaker with geometrical rhomboids

1970s

 

Gwyn Hanssen Pigott Bowl c. 1995

Gwyn Hanssen Pigott Bowl c. 1995

 

Tatsuzo Shimaoka Pair of yunomi

Tatsuzo Shimaoka — Pair of yunomi

 

Inger Rokkjaer Raku bowl c. 1984

Inger Rokkjaer Raku bowl

c. 1984

 

Jacques Kaufmann Wild Strata 2018

Jacques Kaufmann ‘Wild Strata’

2018

 

Jacques Kaufmann 'Wild Strata'-2018-

Jacques Kaufmann ‘Wild Strata’

 

 

Joanna Constantinidis Ceramic Flattened bottle c. 1980

Joanna Constantinidis — Ceramic Flattened bottle

c. 1980

 

John Ward Black and white vessel c. 2005

John Ward Black and White vessel

c. 2005

 

Karen Bennicke-Multi-X

Karen Bennicke ‘Multi X’  ceramic sculpture

 

 

Karen Bennicke-Multi X-2021

Karen Bennicke – Multi X

2021

 

Koji Hatakeyama cast bronze vessels

Koji Hatakeyama cast bronze vessels

 

 

Lucie Rie Hans Coper Pouring vessel c. 1958

Lucie Rie / Hans Coper  – Pouring vessel

c. 1958

Koji Hatakeyama-Eight Faces-2017

Koji Hatakeyama – ‘Eight Faces’

2017

 

 

Lucie Rie Oil and vinegar pourers 1950s

Lucie Rie —  Oil and vinegar pourers

1950s

 

 

Machiko Ogawa Platinum small bowl 2021

Machiko Ogawa — Platinum small bowl

2021

 

Machiko Ogawa White small bowl 2021

Machiko Ogawa –White small bowl

2021

 

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Machiko Ogawa — Small White  bowl

2021

 

 

Zung-Lung Tsai -- Phototropism-2104-2021

Zung-Lung Tsai – Phototropism

 

Ryoji Koie - White bowl

Ryoji Koie – White bowl

 

Shoji Kamoda Tea bowl 1977

Shoji Kamoda Tea bowl

1977

 

Shozo Michikawa- Kohiki Sculptural Form-2017

Shozo Michikawa – ‘Kohiki Sculptural Form’

2017

 

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Shozo Michikawa – ceramic ‘Kohiki Sculptural Form’

 

Yasuhisa Kohyama Tokkuri and Guinomi 2020

Yasuhisa Kohyama — ‘Tokkuri and Guinomi’ – sake cups and pourer

2020

 

Zunglung Tsai Phototropism-2102 2021

Zunglung Tsai ‘Phototropism’

2102 / 2021

 

 

Jennifer Lee - Mashiko

Jennifer Lee – ‘Mashiko’

 

 

Saraf Lynn Spine Camber Vessel-2021

Saraf Lynn —  ‘Spine Camber Vessel’

2021

 

 

Shigaraki thrown-coloured-stoneware vessel

Jennifer Lee — ‘Shigaraki’  – thrown coloured stoneware vessel