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.