The Journal of Australian Ceramics Vol 50 No 2 July 2011
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Australia Wide<br />
<strong>July</strong> to 18 September 201 1. We hope to also<br />
display works from potters throughout Australia.<br />
In April, CPC organised a half-day raku-firing<br />
workshop, inviting non-members to participate.<br />
<strong>The</strong> day was such a success that the club decided<br />
to repeat it on a larger scale during Festival<br />
Cairns, 9 August to 4 September.<br />
<strong>The</strong> CPC is also organising a one-day workshop<br />
at the Cairns Regional Gallery on 14 August for<br />
the people <strong>of</strong> Cairns to make pots for the raku<br />
firing day at the club on Sunday 28 August .<strong>The</strong><br />
club will be opening its doors for the locals to<br />
visit the clubhouse on the Sunday afternoon, buy<br />
a pot, decorate it with glazes provided and get<br />
it fired on the spot. <strong>The</strong> event is planned to go<br />
on well into the evening, so it should be a lot <strong>of</strong><br />
fun!<br />
<strong>The</strong> forthcoming international conference,<br />
9th International Meeting <strong>of</strong> the Pacific Rim<br />
Ceramic Societies (PacRim 9) will be held in the<br />
Cairns Convention Centre, 10-13 <strong>July</strong> <strong>2011</strong>. <strong>The</strong><br />
Cairns Potters Club has been invited to set up<br />
an exhibition, which will be open to the public,<br />
at the conference. So, if you happen to be in<br />
Cairns, please drop in.<br />
Lone White, E: lone@tpg.com .au<br />
qld south east<br />
How about we delete <strong>2011</strong>! Floods, tsunamis,<br />
cyclones, earthquakes, tornadoes, fires ... the list<br />
goes on and on. Just as well we have beloved<br />
clay to soothe away the ills and dramas <strong>of</strong> the<br />
world.<br />
Here on the Gold Coast we are rushing along<br />
with a string <strong>of</strong> events planned for <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
Convener Suki Mead is working feverishly to<br />
make our Empty Bowl Lunch on 19 June even<br />
more spectacular and successful than the first<br />
in 2010. In early <strong>July</strong>, Helen Charles will be<br />
holding a workshop at our Benowa Studios on<br />
hand-building large pots. This workshop filled<br />
very quickly with much interest from Stan thorpe,<br />
Warwick and the Sunshine Coast, and we are<br />
looking forward to a weekend <strong>of</strong> manipulating<br />
clay into fantastically large forms. On 31 <strong>July</strong>,<br />
Megan Puis will be conducting a wheel-forming<br />
workshop, with an emphasis on recycling clay,<br />
throwing tall bottles, altering, adding, Southern<br />
Ice, non-turning bowls, throwing <strong>of</strong>f the hump,<br />
stack throwing and goblets.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Gold Coast Potters' Association (GCPA)<br />
Annual Members' Exhibition will open on 13<br />
August <strong>2011</strong> at the Clay Art Benowa Gallery,<br />
with the themed section, functional domestic.<br />
We look forward to having new students' work<br />
exhibited this year.<br />
Di Buckland <strong>of</strong> the GCPA held a primitive firing<br />
workshop in April with participants coming from<br />
as far as Stanthorpe. An article on the workshop,<br />
written by June Cummings, can be viewed in the<br />
May edition <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong> Claypen. To access the article<br />
go to www.goldcoastpotters.com or the GCPA<br />
Facebook page.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Clay Art Benowa Gallery group held a very<br />
successful opening exhibition on the 27 March<br />
to welcome Kathryn Mitchell and Joanne McFaul<br />
to the Gallery. <strong>The</strong> gallery is open each weekend,<br />
lOam - 4pm; for viewings outside these times<br />
please call 07 5539 2<strong>50</strong>2.<br />
Suncoast Clayworkers Spring Fever is on 7-11<br />
September, so for a registration form, please go<br />
to www.suncoastclayworkers.org.au.<br />
Happy potting,<br />
Lyn Rogers<br />
T: 07 5594 3307; F: 07 5594 3365<br />
E: romeo-whisky@bigpond.com<br />
sa<br />
<strong>The</strong> JamFactory <strong>Ceramics</strong> Studio welcomes David<br />
Pedlar as the new program manager. Together<br />
with creative director Prue Venables and the<br />
associates, David will establish new studio ranges<br />
and commission work for the Ceramic Studio.<br />
Prue Venables was one <strong>of</strong> four finalists in the<br />
Alcorso Foundation Vitrify <strong>Ceramics</strong> Award, a<br />
newly established $ 1 0,000 annual ceramics prize<br />
in Hobart.<br />
Gus Clutterbuck's solo exhibition was held at Art<br />
Images Gallery <strong>No</strong>rwood, 13 May - 5 June. From<br />
the catalogue: "Clutterbuck's work is inspired<br />
by objects found in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara<br />
Yankunytjatjara lands <strong>of</strong> South Australia. His<br />
work celebrates the broken, discarded and<br />
dysfunctional ... things that disintegrate into the<br />
landscape and become part <strong>of</strong> the earth."<br />
Susan Frost, Jane Robertson, Stephanie James<br />
Manttan and Maria Chatzinikolaki will take part<br />
in the Bowerbird Craft Fair in Adelaide on 6, 7<br />
THE JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN CERAMICS JULY <strong>2011</strong> 103
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