Art and Abart

Ceramic of course! I was delighted with this one. Click on it to see the music.

These are the first of my series of ceramic violins. They are about 15 x 30 cm. They both had brown (iron oxide) slip highlights under the ...

The ceramic artist Ah Xian gave a talk at the art school last week. His amazing decorated porcelain busts are held in many prestigious coll...

Greta told me that if she was making ceramics she would probably use motives of Australian native plants. Next morning as I walked to school...

The pot below looks as if it has just been dug up. The brown is an iron oxide slip. The wiped back glaze is moss green by Simone Frazer. If ...

The first lot of work fired in the reduction kiln (no oxygen) at 1300C has just come through. It is all experimental work at this stage, but...

It has taken me a while to get my web management software working again after the laptop got fixed but finally I have put some new work up o...

Homework: paint a paprika white ... and draw it.... then again....

I saw the wonderful Laurie Anderson's light show at the opera house last night. People sat the steps of the opera house forecourt watchi...

This plate was a surprise. It was painted with slip with large music notes, but the slip was too thin and disappeared during firing. (The la...

Terracotta bowl with slip edge. It was fired at 1120C and the terracotta colour is not quite as rich as the clay bowl with music which was ...

This plate (about 30cm diameter, from the same mould as the plate below) had two firings. The first firing was at 1080C with an alkaline gl...

This plate, terracotta clay with a white slip, was made on a self made mold. The guitar pattern was made by scratching a pattern through the...

Our art theory class is held in an old sandstone building, part of the convict prison. They have installed heaters now so it is not uncomfor...

A terracotta bowl with black music (Tristan and Isolde!) This flat plate is made of white stoneware clay. The face is made of slip, which is...

This zipper plate was made by making a mould with a zipper pressed into it. The name on the zipper, Luigi, is intelligible through the glaz...

The National Art School is housed on an old prison, a very old prison right in the center of Sydney. It is peaceful despite the location as ...

This is a painting by Rupprecht Geiger called 402/64 . Geiger was one of Germany's foremost abstract artists and painted mainly in red...