The Journal of Australian Ceramics Vol 52 No 1 April 2013

Collection
The once rich sea grass meadows of the Coorong are sadly depleted and the river systems are under
threat. A sense of nostalgia, of longing, is discernible in Jeff Mincham's work over past years and a love
of place can almost be felt in the way the landscape is rendered in some of his more recent works,
In Sea of Grass, the side edges and base are worked as if tracing out t he contours - the bays and
peninsulas - of the Coorong river and coast system. An entire area then, described in object form,
1 Ryoji Kuroda, Takeshi Murayama, Classic Stoneware of Japan: Shine and Or;be. Kodansha International. Tokyo, 2002. 37
2 Robert Bell, Arronview 71. Spring 2012, 29
Jeff Mincham, Sea of Grass, 201 1, stonewa re, glazed, h.52cm, w,67cm, d,19cm
National Gal/ery of Austra lia, Canberra, Gift of Susan Armitage 201 1