Fire and Ash: One Kiln…One Firing…One Team

  • Opening

    Friday 06 September, 2024

    6-8pm

    To be opened by Steve Harrison and Leonard Smith: potters and researchers with a consuming interest in sustainable practice with Montessa Maack: Editor, Journal Australian Ceramics 

     

    The physical demands of the process often invite artists to undertake wood firing as a collective venture; a team of artists will join forces to share the labour in preparing and loading the kiln and firewood. Yet, it would be inaccurate to envisage the teamwork in solely pragmatic terms; ideas are passionately exchanged, and deep camaraderie invariably forms during the several sleepless nights spent together to ensure the firing's success.

     
    In Fire and Ash: One Kiln...One Firing...One Team, we are proud to showcase the outstanding works of one such team. Led by the distinguished Barbara Campbell-Allen OAM, ceramicists Montessa Maack, Yumi Sakai-Harmelin, Yegana Jafarova and Chris Suttie partook in the firing of the former's Anagama kiln, Matilda, in July 2024 to produce exemplar ceramics that collectively capture the rich aesthetic possibilities of a single firing. The surface and form of each work display the individuality of each artist, while simultaneously retaining their shared origins. Together, they embody the collaborative spirit of wood firing at its finest.

     

  • The Kiln

    Barbara Campbell-Allen's anagama, Matilda
    The Firing

    July 2024
    The Team

    Barbara Campbell-Allen OAM

    Montessa Maack

    Yumi Sakai-Harmelin

    Yegana Jafarova

    Chris Suttie (visiting from the UK with work now in England)

  • Selected Works
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