Yellow and white sieve with silver handle and black oval stemmed bowl 2021
Defiantly spinning, the potters wheel directs and dominates form, frequently also prescribing and defining future use and purpose of outcome. Manipulating and breaking this orbital force, different types of movement and innovative questions of origin gradually evolve. Finely practiced techniques facilitate a new playfulness and poetry. Silver handle allows adventures beyond clear limitations of high fired porcelain. Metal whispers of elapsed history, finding solutions to construction and fresh suggestions of function
The bowl reaches upwards, its rim enveloping space, like a ribbon looping through the air. The sieve grounds and settles drawing attention downwards while the handle cuts the air, an upward line, a quiet movement, as if lifting lightly from its foundation
Bowl: (h) 15 x (w) 24 x (d) 17.5 cm
Limoges porcelain, thrown, altered, reduction fired, 1320C
Sieve (h) 9 x (l) 34 x (d) 14 cm
Limoges porcelain, hand thrown, altered, pierced, reduction fired, 1320C; fine silver
Black oval vessel and black sieve with silver handle 2021
Defiantly spinning, the potters wheel directs and dominates form, frequently also prescribing and defining future use and purpose of outcome. Manipulating and breaking this orbital force, different types of movement and innovative questions of origin gradually evolve. Finely practiced techniques facilitate a new playfulness and poetry. The silver handle allows adventures beyond clear limitations of high fired porcelain. Metal whispers of elapsed history, finding solutions to construction and fresh suggestions of function. The two forms display contrasting energies, an interplay of relationships.
Oval: (h) 14 x (w) 13.5 x (d) 9.5 cms
Limoges porcelain, thrown, altered, reduction fired, 1320C
Sieve: (h) 10 x (l) 34 x (w) 14 cms
Limoges porcelain, thrown, altered, pierced, reduction fired, 1320C, fine silver handle
Triangulated yellow form, yellow and white jug, white spoon with silver handlel 2021
Defiantly spinning, the potters wheel directs and dominates form, frequently also prescribing and defining future use and purpose of outcome. Manipulating and breaking this orbital force, different types of movement and innovative questions of origin gradually evolve. Finely practiced techniques facilitate a new playfulness and poetry. The silver handle allows adventures beyond the clear limitations of high fired porcelain. Metal whispers of elapsed history, finding solutions to construction and fresh suggestions of function.
The yellow triangle reaches inwards, enveloping space. In contrast, the sieve and the jug ground and settle this movement, while the handle cuts the air, drawing an upward line, a quiet trace.
Triangle form and Jug: Limoges porcelain, thrown, altered, reduction fired, 1320C – (h) 7 x (w) 18.5 x (d) 16 cms; jug – (h) 11 x (w) 8 x (d) 5 cms
Spoon: Limoges porcelain, thrown, altered, reduction fired, 1320C; fine silver –
(h) 7.5 x (l) 38 x (w) 10.5 cms
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Prue Venables
Australia
Selected in 2018 as the 9th ‘Living Treasure – Master of Australian Craft’, a solo exhibition is currently on tour around Australia
Education – Harrow School of Art, London – Studio Pottery Course (1983);
Masters in Fine Art – RMIT University, Melbourne (1995)
My attention quickly shifted from initial thrown, painted earthenware tea sets to more minimal thrown, altered and constructed clear forms in high temperature porcelain. Technically extremely challenging, these pieces have won many Australian and international awards
My focus has always been on the making of high quality objects with subtle or direct functional references and the grouping of these into small interactive assemblies.
This work has been exhibited consistently in Australia, Europe, Asia and America
The objects are handmade, but frequently draw on my observations from industrial sources across the world – materials, techniques and thinking – informing my practice and facilitating risk and experimentation