The Journal of Australian Ceramics Vol 49 No 1 April 2010

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GREG DALY : A PASSION FOR LUSTRE
Greg Daly returns to his love and passion for lustre. During the last 14 years he has explored and
developed a palette of rich surfaces utilising the glaze-on-glaze technique and adding lustrous gold and
silver leaf to the surface. Angles of Light presents this technique which will be shown alongside new
lustre work, which he has revisited.
Greg began exploring lustre as a student in the mid 70's, developing a resinate lustre. He then went
on to develop lustre glazes and pigment lustres which he used until the late 90's. His new lustre work
encompasses a technique called lustre glaze, where copper, silver and bismuth are mixed with the glaze,
resulting in a rainbow of colours and light on the surface.
Lustre is created by developing a very thin layer of metal on top of the glaze where light reflects light
breaking it into a myriad of colours. The underlying colour is ail-important for the final surface result.
The viewer only has to move a centimetre or two and the surface flares into colour or is subdued.
Intensity of light, natural or artificial and the viewing angle all contribute to the viewing experience.
This exhibition is the result of Greg's recent writing of a new book on lustre techniques. He has since
realised how much he had missed lustre in his practice. This has resulted in a new, fresh body of work
cailed Angles of Light that shows the intimate relationship lustre has with light.
Left to right: lustre glazes, Copper lustre glazed bowl form, 2010, and studio window landscape
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