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Black earth wet from evening rainamber trailed by gum branch shadows as wild ochre slip crosses the raw clay.The canvas no longer blankfor colours from the kitchen garden.On my throwing bench tapas plates for a local restaurant wait to be dried off and packed. Fired in the electric kiln this work was quite a departure for me from the work in the wood kiln - however the connections remain with the

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red door intervention in a field of dry summer grasses,a way in or a way to find out.Travelling towards the east coast of Tasmania, a red door is propped in a field by the road. This is a marketing device to promote the recently launched interior design course for the University of Tasmania. It sits by the road to Port Arthur, a notorious 19th century convict penal settlement where escape was

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Deadfall  is gatheredthen stacked near the road,a circle of roundness growsas the wood  rests, dryly braced waiting for the splitter's wedge.We are gathering wood from the land ready for splitting, some for the house fire over winter, but also to fire the small kiln. Our land has mostly black wattle, peppermint and blue gum and we use it all in various ways - if not as fuel in the kiln then the

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arc of lightcurving incandescentfilament to firmamentI'm back -  with the intention to try to keep this going as I work towards the next exhibition that I am involved with which is "Working Fire" at the Carnegie Gallery in Hobart, Tasmania in May 2009. The exhibition features my work as well as sculptures from fellow fireworkers Neil Hoffman and Michael Stephan. As part of the exhibition a

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One small cup sits floatingtimeless in place.The swell of the bellyand the curve of the lip,carry the expanding linesout into space.In the Archeological Museum in Heraklion this small cup caught my eye.

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Fluted columns remain, with lintels resting on the foundations of western civilisation. As the tourist buses gather our footfalls slowly polish the acropolis marble.We start a journey back through time, to experience a past that still shapes the present.

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The jars of Knossosonce held the spirit of Minoan life.Now they too are heldcaged from the palace hordes.To Crete where the traces of Minoan civilisation are strongly present.

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As winter deepensthe mist gathersaround the workshop,with the courtyard framedin swirling white.As we leave, spring is coming but the grip of winter still holds.

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