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

Australian Ceramic Stories

"A window is a window, but there is looking out and looking in": Margaret Atwood, Homelanding, in Good Bones, 1993.

Groundtruthings: Australian Ceramic Stories

Wellington to Dubbo, March 18, 2008

"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time"...John Berger 

 Oliver Wendell Holmes described photography as a "mirror with a memory" in 1859.

"I'd have to be really quick

to describe clouds -

a split second's enough

for them to start being something else"

              Wislawa Szymborska  

(Geoff Dyer : The  Ongoing Moment, 2005)                  

porcelain count, 2004

NSW Southern Highlands, April 2004

Small porcelain 'drawings', 2005 (above) and inlay, glaze and stencil tests on porcelain fragments, 2002-2006 (below). Traces and threads of all continue in recent exhibition works. Vocabulary is the elusive hook.

Window north, 2005

Glazed porcelain vessel with ceramic curtain stencil. A Townsville remnant.

Val Plumwood PhD, extraordinary thinker and writer, died on February 29. See Remembering Val Plumwood. I only hope her insights and philosophical works continue to grow as a cultural force. She has touched many people, probably more than she ever realised, including me.

Postcard from Liscannor, Clare, Eire. From my mother's collection of family letters and photos, held in Townsville, Queensland. A long story of connections and intersections. Reticulae, in fact. The image depicts seaweed gathering, once a crucial part of the local subsistence economy. I photographed this in 2005. The postcard from Kate is undated. Elements of this, including her words of correspondence handwritten, verso, found their way into the ceramic series and exhibition 'Return (Porcelain: Time, Light, Loss), 2006'.

A porcelain disk/dish with glaze 'stencil'. High-fired to a translucent state, with textural depth. Not a decal. Part of the set savannah town tea 2007. The 'pattern' is my mother's lace curtain; one of many that once graced the windows of tropical-zone towns where windows were open all day, most months of the year. The one time we had to close them was during a good Wet or active cyclone season. A Townsville remnant.

Australian Ceramic Stories

Small solace suite, 2007 - porcelain assemblage

Image of a work to be exhibited in the large group exhibition Australian Ceramic Stories at the Dubbo Regional Gallery, Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, 5 April - 18 May 2008