Currawong Song

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Currawong Song was my contribution to a group exhibition called COMMUNE - the community part of Museum of Brisbane’s CLAY exhibition - earlier this year. Ceramic artists from around Queensland were invited to make a memory vessel that celebrated clay and their personal ‘memory of place’ and life in Brisbane. For me, it’s city living in a bubble of tropical green around the Brisbane River to the soundtrack of the currawongs, magpies and crows! I ended up choosing the currawong because one visited me in my backyard the morning I started making this entry – sending an ambassador to help me decide seemed a sensible reason choose!

This little vessel is the origin story for what has become my signature style of coloured, textured, layered coil pot sculptural vessels.

The base on inside and the top outside edge is unglazed, allowing the lovely raw surface texture of the clay to interplay with the smooth glossy finish of the glazed clay surfaces.

Currawong Song measures 100 x 80mm w x h (130mm high to the tip of the currawong’s beak).