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Avi Amesbury uses the making process, involving the use of materials collected from the land, as a means to explore the multi-layered and intricate relationships between landscape, experience and memory. The Dreams of Home series combine slab and slipcast construction with stamping, a technique used to express conceptual rather t...
How clay moves and feels is primarily what draws my attention to working with it. I find it personal and revealing but also frustrating and overwhelming. It's refreshing how clay forms and the array of surface treatment can stimulate emotions and the intellect. I'm on a constant journey of exploration, discovery and reflection. Much of my work responds to...
I work on clay featuring porcelain and paper clay while exploring my heritage. I draw my inspiration from the landscape and from places where I grew up in Israel. My work explores those places and relates it back to where I live now in Australia. My work reflects a journey that I experienced in childhood; I was born in Beersheba - a town in the Negev ...
I am drawn to the intricacies of the outdoors, to the beauty of line, shadow, tone, structure, texture and tactility of the natural environment. The many different materials available for use in the exploration of these concepts and the combination of mediums to convey an event or 'texture' is an important part of my practice. The process of creatio...
Process driven design used to develop industrial prototypes and semi-industrial manufacturing techniques is the focus of my ceramic practice. How this trend might deal with notions of identity is of particular interest to me as homogenously developed mass-produced objects have provided an opportunity for designer/maker entrepreneurs to satisfy a social n...
Over the past seventeen years my ceramic artwork has continued to develop as a social commentary often incorporating found objects. My passionate concern for the environment is an essential part of my practice, and as an artist I continually strive for a synthesis of technique and concept to express more clearly the issues that inform my work. My figur...
Since I started working with clay, I have been interested in the qualities that can be achieved by the reaction between clay and the wood-fire process. This fascination began when I came across images of medieval Japanese pots from kiln-sites such as Shigaraki and Bizen, and although still heavily inspired by those works, it has developed into a general ...
The Australian landscape in a number of manifestations - the local Brindabella Ranges, the Central Desert and the Kimberley's - has informed my practice for some thirty years. It constitutes the continuing narrative of journey, place and time that is the essence of my art. Although specific place(s) may be alluded to, my Australian landscape is a generali...
I make generously rounded, eccentric vessels, thrown and manipulated, with lush dimpled surfaces inviting tactile as well as visual responses. The surfaces on these vessels have evolved through years of technical research with soda glazing, development of materials and processes, and investigation of glaze microstructure. The research was done to satisfy...
I take pleasure in the way handmade pots bring different histories to domestic use. This narrative may include the training and heritage of the potter who made the piece, where the piece was purchased, whether it was a gifted or inherited piece, and possibly its forgotten or lost history. I am drawn to moments when people share conversation and compan...
I am interested in themes of nature, of journey and passage of the life of the spirit. I explore these themes in large installations. Technically, I work predominately with smoke firing and black firing techniques and more recently with unglazed porcelain. I am particularly interested in the grouping and repetition of multiple forms and patterning and som...