THEATRE AT AFRICA NOVA

The stage is set at Africa Nova.....my work together with Gemma Orkin vessels.

NARRATIVE VESSELS

Just taken hot out of the kiln!

VASES AND VESSELS

Vessels/vases in progress - wheel thrown, distorted and assembled

I have been invited to take part in an exhibition entitled VESSEL at Kim Sacks Gallery in Johannesburg in June. In the 80's I was zealously crusading the concept of 'VESSEL' as an expressive art form. Today, however, as a somewhat less cocky prosetylizer, that seems a little pretentious. I might now rather settle for the utilitarian and simple concept of VASE. Besides, the word VESSEL conjures up a complexity of meaning - from a container, to a conveyer of blood and fluids, to sailing ships etc. Hence re-visiting this area of the ceramic discourse, I am inspired by T.S.Eliot's lines from Little Gidding
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/tseliot/7069

'We shall not cease from exploration,
and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time.

With that in mind, let's see what I can come up with!

REFLECTIONS ON EASTER MONDAY

Seeking the inner path

A tale from ancient China - a noble man passing a potter at work, asks him how he is able to form vessels that possess such convincing beauty. "Oh," answered the potter, "you are looking at the mere outward shape. What I am forming lies within. I am interested only in what remains after the pot has been broken."

It is not the pots we are forming, but ourselves. (M.C.Richards in her inspiring book CENTERING)

EXHIBITION PREVIEW...

GREEN COMPOSITE VASE



BROWN BLACK CHEQUERED COMPOSITE VASE

In between completing end of year orders, much focus is on my up coming exhibition, titled HEARTH, taking place in December 2009, opening 10th, at The UCT Irma Stern Museum in Cape Town.
Here are some of the images for the show..