Round Table

Round table postcard, Moher cliffs, Eire. Family correspondence sent from Liscannor, Clare to Townsville, Queensland, early 1900's.

Round table place, Cliffs of Moher, Clare, May 2008. 

Metal ties of the table are still in the flagstone platform. 

Cumulus 2008, 100 porcelain beakers on a round table. 

Work in progress, September 2008.

Woonjeegaribay Highlands, New South Wales; 

paddock to peat wetland and dam.

Why so soon, Dorothy?

Dorothy Porter, eminent Australian poet, 1954 - 2008.

"Let's talk death, can't we be friends?"

Too soon, Dorothy.  

Thanks for your 

lucid courage. 

Fluid time +

Liscannor five, 2008

Translucent porcelain, glazes, including an ash glaze made from the wood of wind and wombat-felled eucalypts in home paddocks, and burnt over the 2008 winter in a wood-burner for warmth in the house. Wombats are brilliant excavators and their burrowed home tunnels undercut the root sysytems of old gum and bloodwood trees. With strong winds to gales on the Woonjeegaribay highlands, these fall in paddock and remnant forest. One large old paddock gum has provided years of firewood after falling, and its root base is still the scaffolding of a burrow system. It has, in turn, provided natural re-seeding of its immediate area, and a new ash glaze, which over the last few months has begun to reveal itself. 

Lightbox

light tools five, 2005-8

wheel thrown porcelain

Savannah 1

Mary E, Woodlands, Woodstock, between Townsville and Charters Towers, Northern Queensland. Termites, jodphurs, spirit.

fracture

fracture 1, 2007-8 Inlaid, translucent porcelain

fluid time

winter ash flow in november 2008

high light

September 24, 2006, radiant light, ceramic  zone

gordon street

Gordon Street, Bowen, Q, March 21, 2005, smell of 60's salt, coke works over left shoulder

Fusions - Salute from Brisbane

Salute, an Invitational Exhibition curated by Janet Mansfield, launches the new incarnation of Fusions Gallery, Brisbane, October 17. On show until November 22. (Fusions Gallery: Australian Network of Clay and Glass Artists).

Re-crossing 2007, 2007-8. Porcelain.

September 15, 2008

Waiting for La Niña series 2006-7, in September morning sunlight 2008.

August 3 afternoon light, porcelain and winter rainwater

Melbourne was sunny, 14C and so to here

2007-8

2007

August 2 Highlands light, Southern Ice porcelain forms.

Melbourne was cool, a southerly off the Bass, and so back to here where the frosts are biting grasses and creaking the roof. A gale-force south-westerly has blasted all with Eucalypt leaves and branches, and the wind chill says it is snowing in the Alps. Out of the wind, the growing light, post - solstice, beckons the camera. 

Humans in wombats' backyard

A young wombat has moved into the internal garden, taking up new burrow-making at the outer edges of its home range, in company with such exotics as a Gingko tree, a very old ornamental Japanese maple, a big old American Crabapple, my favourite native grass, a potted Port Jackson fig and Aloe vera.

The brick wall provides a perfect tree-like buttress to burrow under. 

Fair ground

La Nina catch and taste, 2007.

Inlaid, glazed, translucent Southern Ice porcelain; Louise Boscacci.

Melbourne Art Fair 2008: July 30 - August 5

Connectivity 2

Small solace suite 2007 (detail): porcelain assemblage

Mount Stuart, Townsville: dry tropical savannah woodland, June 2008.

Connectivity 1

From top: 

Austral four 2007. Inlaid porcelain

Bone china count inlaid into porcelain, 2004

Magpie Geese, Nyleta Wetland, Atherton, Queensland, June 2008

Rose Gum (Eucalyptus grandis) ecotone, Paluma Road, June 2008; after 26 years of photographing this forest, the road to Hidden Valley has now been bitumised. A World Heritage ecosystem. 

From top: Warming newly emerged Ulysses butterfly, Townsville backyard, June 2008.

Ulysses butterfly coccoon, Townsville backyard, June 2008.

Ulyssses butterfly, Townsville backyard, June 2008. Newly emerged, and warming up for first flight.

Images: Louise Boscacci

Liscannor 1

Round table place, Cliffs of Moher postcard, Liscannor to Townsville, undated. Private collection of M.E. Boscacci.

Cliffs of Moher, NW Clare, looking south, May 9, about 8 pm.

Liscannor quay, May 9, 2008 Louise Boscacci

London 1

Victorian collector's case of South American hummingbirds, the Museum of Natural History, London, May 7.

Light movement

Thousands of Yellow-faced Honeyeaters (Lichenostomus chrysops) are moving in streams overhead, north north-east in annual autumnal migration. They began early this year in March as the first cool days descended, and much cooler days descended into the alpine areas. In flight, the flocks continuously call; it is this that makes me look up to their extraordinary, daily movement.

White light 1, 2005

Inlaid, translucent porcelain; paddock morning.

Carry, contain, chime

Porcelain jug forms and porcelain croatal 2007. Not white (but materially translucent), they  carry, contain and chime. 

Australian Ceramic Stories underway

The exhibition Australian Ceramic Stories was officially opened Friday night, April 11. Up and running, it is a beautiful installation by the exceptional team at the Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo and curator Dr Julia Jones. This is a mammoth undertaking by a regional gallery in New South Wales, pulled off with panache.

Exhibitions Officer Kent Buchanan and Australian Ceramic Stories Curator Dr Julia Jones introducing the Curator - Artists talks, Sunday April 13.

Vipoo Srivilasa at the Curator & Artists' Talks, Sunday April 13. Here his hands mirror his ceramic hands in the exhibition. (Work by Bern Emmerichs behind him on the wall; artwork copyright Bern Emmerichs). See Vipoo's account of the Australian Ceramic Stories weekend here.

Not a decorative subject?

Austral amphora (not a decorative subject) 2007

Inlaid, translucent porcelain. Wall work.

Australian Ceramic Stories

Bowl for 264 species, 2007

Solace Works 2007-8

and this list

Catherine's bowl, 2006 (inlaid, glazed porcelain)

Early morning, overcast, March 24, 2007