Season 9: Australian Studio Pottery Masters
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Our new season opens this weekend,  Friday 29 September. The exhibition features Australian studio pottery masters, including but not limited to Jane Barrow, Garry Bish, Les Blakebrough, Pippin Drysdale, John Gilbert, Andrew Halford, Peter Harris, Col Levy, Jenny Orchard, Peter Rushforth, Chris Sanders, Ted Secombe, Shigeo Shiga, Hiroe Swen and Amanda Warner. For the first time, we have no mystery potters in the main gallery but we still have a wide range of pots in the workroom – some by known artists and others still mysteries –  for those who like to venture there. We will be open on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday during the season and by appointment at other times.

 

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Season 8 wrap up

IMG_7290Our Season 8 exhibition, held from Friday 30 September 2016 to Monday 3 July 2017, was entitled “Fifty Shades of Brown”. Many of the pieces exhibited were from the 1960s and 1970s but we also bought new pieces for the exhibition, including recent work by Robert Barron, Owen Rye and Julie Shepherd. On our north plinth we had a lovely display of work by Sylvia Halpern. It was a slower season this year with fewer visitors overall but we still enjoyed the people who came to see us and made good Internet sales .

Our pattern of buying changed during the year.  Our drawers and storeroom shelves  now contain so much stock that we decided to focus our new acquisitions on a smaller number of significant works by known artists. Now on our winter break, we will keep the current display in place for a while before starting to set up the new exhibition. Visitors are still welcome by appointment during the winter months and we will let you know more about what we are planning for Season 9 in a few week’s time.

Illustrated: Several pieces by Sylvia Halpern from the Season Eight exhibition.

Eighth Season coming to an end

We still have two weeks to go before our eighth season at Australian Pottery at Bemboka  comes to an end at close of business on Monday 3 July. However, we will still be open by appointment over the winter months, and we will have a new exhibition ready to open on Friday 29 September.

Judy Lorraine
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We were pleased to acquire this large handbuilt piece by Judy Lorraine this week. It is 32 cm high with a tiny nut-like opening and swelling assymetric shape. The surface has been worked all over  with a modelling tool and  burnished with oxide. Judy Lorraine has almost no auction record and, until now, we have only been able to find her thrown domestic work on the secondary market, so this piece has been a welcome addition to our collection.

Pairs

Our current exhibition features a number of interesting pairs. Shown here: two Lyrebird Ridge Pottery plates; two vessels from Maryke Henderson’s Red River Gum series; two bottles with crystalline glazes by John Stroomer; and two plates with cane handles from Phillip McConnell’s The Pottri.

Season 8: Fifty Shades of Brown

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Our eighth season in Bemboka will open on Friday 30 September with a new exhibition called “Fifty Shades of Brown”.

Brown is a warm colour ranging in tone from beige, straw and light tan through copper and bronze to deep, rich siennas and umbers. The exhibition draws on these tones with works that are raw-glazed (some woodfired), or coloured with slips, understains and glazes. Many are from the 1960s and 1970s but we have also bought new pieces for the exhibition, including recent work by Robert Barron, Owen Rye and Julie Shepherd.

Each season we think that the new exhibition is the best so far and this is no exception. We have been living with it for several weeks now and it has been giving us much pleasure. The labels are almost done, the new cards have been printed and our next major task before the new exhibiton opens will be to work on our spring garden so that it will be neat and tidy on 30 September.

Illustrated above: Helen Gulliver, Decanter; Noel Blue, Floor Jug.