On Jason Stopa's Lecture:

After attending Jason's lecture on Thursday, I could not help but think about the idea of expressionism being a "short lived intervention" and response to the cultural moment, and it can relate to my ceramics practice that I see happening around me within the ceramics sphere. As I mentioned in our studio visit on Wednesday, the ceramic's world can be difficult to penetrate because there is a celebration of community, networking, and fine craftspersonship (I prefer this word so much more than crafts"man"ship!) more than there is any critical dialogue or constructive criticism. I would like to look closer at developing ceramics, especially ceramic artists in Australia, because their work seems to be working with this idea of reacting to the present moment with ceramic work that is more loose and less fussed over; the vessels are more expressive and it seems that there is less concern over craftspersonship, though there is definitely an aspect to control and skill within keeping things loose.

One artist that I have been looking at (who is also a painter) is Madeleine Preston: 
In this recent body of work, she uses Guston's paintings and color palette as a source of inspiration. 

Madeleine also created a body of work called "Tanagras Archive: The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie", which combines her loose ceramic sculptures with paintings of domestic bourgeois interiors. I am very interested in how she combines the paintings and ceramic pieces in the gallery space: 

-Anthony K. 

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