ARTIST STATEMENT                                                                                                                           My solo exhibition titled ‘Demolition’, held at ARC, Yinnar in September this year.

This body of work is centred on the process of pulling apart Hazelwood Power Station.

I worked from photographs which I took of various stages and aspects of the process of demolition.

As a long term resident of Latrobe Valley, I am used to heavy industry being part of the landscape.

In this body of work, I have used the technique of drypoint mostly, as I find it suggests the grimy agedness of these old industrial landmarks.

I have worked as usual, large scale to commemorate Hazelwood’s imposing size.

With my drawing style, combined with the drypoint technique, I have attempted to pay tribute to a now vanished industrial landmark.

Amanda Thompson.

Our next Exhibition is Textile, entitled  “Gathered Threads” which is an invitational exhibition curated by textile artists Dijanne Cevaal and is partially funded by Amaga which runs from 4 June until 3 July . The exhibitors have been invited  from around Australia  but quite a few have connections to the region.  The exhibition runs in conjunction with some textile workshops facilitated by Cheryl Cook and Dijanne Cevaal  which will run on 11/12 June and 25/26 June, which are free ( as they have been funded by Amaga), apart from a materials fee of $10. The aim is to create a textile hanging for Arc to  celebrate our 40 years, though there will be enough material provided for you to also take something home- we will be covering a number of different techniques as well as assembling a joint textile piece for Arc. There are only two places left in this workshop and will now be advertised to the wider community. please find the workshop information following

Textile Workshops

Workshops; 11/06-12/06

               25/06-26/06

 The workshops have been funded by Amaga (Australian Museums and Gallery Association). The brief is to teach textile techniques as well as create a textile piece for public display to become a part of the ARC Yinnar collection. You will contribute to the community piece but will also have the opportunity to dye/print and stitch pieces for yourself to take home

There is a small materials fee for the cost of dyeing materials as well as printing ink of $ 10 per person ( this is for the materials you will take home for your own use)

Your Teachers ;

Cheryl Cook: felter and teacher https://www.artybirdaustralia.com/tutor

Dijanne Cevaal: textile artist, writer and teacher http://origidij.blogspot.com/

 It would be good if you could attend all four days of the workshops the program includes:

 Day 1 ( 11 June 2022) ; natural dyeing of 100% natural fabric ( eg cotton, wool, silk) with natural dye materials and indigo.

Day 2 ( 12 June 2022); monoprinting and printing on the  aforementioned dyed fabrics

Day 3 (25 June 2022); stitching samples, design of community textile artwork

Day4 (26 June 2022); assembling of community piece

 You will need to bring:

Your normal sewing kit, including stitching needles and scissors and thread and embroidery threads if you have them)

For day 1- fabrics that are 100% natural fibres. You can source cotton/silk/wool in op shops, nb techniques will not work on synthetic materials or materials that have a percentage of synthetic content. Pieces of fabric to be around 50cm x 50 cm or smaller and you can bring several. There will also be some fabrics provided by Cheryl and Dijanne

Kitchen gloves (not the latex ones as they are too flimsy for immersing fabric in the hot dye pots)

BYO Lunch.

A stunning collection of work of significance within the Latrobe Vallery Arts practice and Australian ceramics

All artists have had an association with Arc Yinnar in the last 40 years and it’s connection to ceramics teaching and learning in the Latrobe Valley, Gippsland. The was funded by the Australian Museums and Galleries Association.

Gallery arc

THE ARTISTS

Adam Cox.

Adam Cox was a member and had a studio at arc in the 1990’s when in his twenties. He Spent his formative years working along side Kiyoshi Ino who lectured at the then Gippsland Centre for Art and Design, Gippsland Institute of Education /Monash University and Peter Corser who both also had studios at arc. Residing now in Mirboo North, Adam has been creating porcelain and stoneware pots, vases and bowls, working from his purpose-built studio in the beautiful Strzelecki Ranges, Gippsland Victoria, His works are both decorative and functional works. His work has evolved to a uniquely elegant approach to form and the use of slip carving and beautiful crystalline glazes.
Adams work can be viewed within the Featherston Cabinets in the foyer gallery of arc and his works are for sale.

Adam Cox , Matt Blue Vase with Crystalline Glaze. 2022

Chris Myers

Chris Myers established his own studio in 1973 after training at Caulfield Institute of Technology. In 1981 he was working at Kaligda Pottery, in Frankston, Victoria and teaching full-time at Caulfield. In 1996 he was still teaching full-time but had moved to Beachside Pottery at Aspendale, Victoria. Chris tutored in ceramics at the Central institute of TAFE (Gippstafe) Newborough in the 2000’s and many of his students were members of arc who studied with Chris at the campus studio and practiced their in arcs Ceramic studio.
Chris’s simple, elegant forms are decorated with an extraordinarily complex approach, built up by sand-blasting and/or acid-etching the previously fired glazed surface and applying low-fire lustres. The effect creates a beautifully balanced and elegant works. These works compare strikingly with his equally beautiful hand built and dry glazed mid fired forms in which he also works.

Chris Myers lustred lidded container.

Chris Myers, Rainforest Patterns, mid range fired 1200.

Christopher Headley

Chris Headley studied at York School of Art before majoring in Ceramics at the Central School of Art in London, learning to throw with (the late) Michael Casson and hand-build with Gordon Baldwin. Chris graduated in 1973 and set out for Australia

Christopher Headley has  connections with both Federation (previously Monash ) University and arc Yinnar. He undertook his Master’s degree at the Australian National University, graduating in 1991; and in 1999, with Dr Owen Rye as his supervisor, gained his PhD from Monash University, Victoria. (http://www.christopherheadley.net/#!about)
During this time he spent time working in the ceramics studio at arc

His work in the exhibition comprises narrative collections of beautifully rendered objects of white earthenware with his own designed decals and lustre as surface decoration. The observer is invited to pause and read the work. 

Christopher Headley, Lost Worlds, White Earthenware with ceramic decals.

Anthea Williams

A long time member of arc, currently lecturing at the now Federation Uni,  Anthea William’s unique approach to ceramics is observable in her series  'Black Hole’ black fired ceramics which respond to the local industry and reference the grime and black dust of a world crumbling under our reliance on coal. The works are a combination of clay and charcoal

Anthea Williams, 2 works from her Black hole series

Dragi Jankovic

Dragi Jankovic is a member of arc and is currently working part time in the Ceramics Studio as tutor and technician. Dragi tutored in ceramics at the Central Gippsland Institute of TAFE (Gippstafe) at the Newborough Campus for many years alongside Chris Myers.  

In 1973 Dragi met Kyoshi Ino, who greatly influenced his artistic profession, with ceramics playing a pivotal role in his professional career as an artist.

Many of Dragi’s and Chris Myers students at Gippstafe, particularly during the early 2000’s, were also members at arc, studying  with Dragi and Chris at the campus studio and practicing their craft in their spare time at arc"s Ceramic Studio.

Dragi’s large striking sculptural forms  and smaller functional vessels, have been high fired in gas kilns resulting in beautiful reduction glazes that produce a smooth gloss surface.  As well on show are his Shino carbon trap glazes,  a glazing technique that originated in Japan,  that have less predictable but equally mesmerising decorative surface effects. 

Dragi Jankovic ‘Large Form’, Stoneware, Copper Red Glaze and ‘Mechanical’ Stoneware, Mirror Black.

John Rojo

John Rojo has worked as a graphic designer, teacher, potter, painter, lecturer and builder. He works from his own studio and gallery in the Tarra Valley. Wood fired pottery is his passion and his wood fired work and works with painterly and patterned surface design can be also seen on show in Gallery arc. John Rojo was a post graduate student of Owen Ryes during the Monash years and recently lecturer at Federation University Gippsland.

John Rojo, ‘Billabong’ underglaze design.

Kiyoshi Ino (1946 to 2008)

Kiyoshi Ino was born in Kyoto, Japan in 1946 to a family that has been involved in the production of pottery for some 160 years. Working in the family studio he studied at the Kyoto School of Arts and Crafts, completing his diploma of Ceramic Art in 1969. He then studied a post graduate course in glazing at the Kyoto Technical School and later lectured in ceramics at the Kyoto Technical School.

In 1973 Ino was one of a group of Japanese potters that travelled to Australia following in the footsteps of the famous Japanese potter, Shoji Hamada, who had visited in 1965.  Kiyoshi Ino visited Sydney in 1973, and worked with Japanese potter Shigeo Shiga . He undertook a position as Visiting Lecturer in Ceramics at the Gippsland Institute of Technical Education, Yallourn, Victoria, from 1974 to 1976 and returned to the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education as Assistant to the Senior Lecturer in Ceramics in 1979. He ceased teaching at the Gippsland Institute in 1988. Ino was involved in the establishment of ceramic space for artists at arc where he had a studio and continued to work and teach until his death in 2008. He has exhibited extensively throughout Australia.

Kiyoshi Ino and Adam Cox, Bowl, Private collection. Circa mid 1990’s

Kiyoshi Ino, Saki Set, Crackle Glaze, Private Collection

Kiyoshi Ino, 3 bowls Crystalline glaze, Private collection.

Below: Jillaine Hurrell, Ochre Vessels, 1990 Feeney’s Clay, Raku, Collection Of the Artist

On wall Egyptian Tales III Walker’s Clay, mid fired, dry underglazes Collection Of the Artist

Seascape III, 1990 Feeney’s Clay, Raku, Collection Of the Artist

On wall, Celtic Roots, 1997 Walker’s Clay Mid Fired, Mixed Media Collection Of the Artist

Above Jillaine Hurrell, Flights of Fancy 1 & 2, 1988 Raku & High Fired, underglaze colours & clear glazes Collection Of the Artist

Jillaine Hurrell.
Jilliane Hurrell, a student of both Owen Rye and Hedley Potts , at the Gippsland Instute of Advanced Education. Jillaine taught the Mainstreet Group from Moe Lifeskills in arc’s Ceramic Studio during the late 1990s to early 2000s and curated several of their exhibitions.
She continued to work with Mainstreet students and clients. Her uniquely formed dry glaze raku vessels, raku & high fired plates, platters and mid fired mixed media wall hangings inspired by her travel and created during this time, are featured in the show.  

Above Peter Corser, Water ways, raku fired.
Peter Corser is a long term member of arc. He spent a lot of his making time in the ceramics and print making studios when active at arc during the 1990s and early 2000’s during the wood and raku firing heydays of arc’s ceramic studio. . The above work Waterways was Raku fired in the raku kiln (now decommissioned) in the back foyer and at the rear of arc some years before the community garden was established. The works immediately below Spirit Energy and Procreation were both works fired in the Woodfiring kiln that was built at the rear of arc and now has been dismantled. The new pizza oven now stands in the same place. Peter has taken various art Teaching positions in Gippsland, just recently retiring from the Koorie Art Studies Teaching at Gippsland Tafe, He also taught art at the Fulham corrections centre in Gippsland.

Below ::Installation Spirit Energy and Procreation, wood fired & Waterways raku fired & Platter, stoneware.

Above: Peter Corser, Medium Bowl Blue, Stoneware & Small bowl Green, Stoneware.

Hedley Potts

Artist Hedley Potts, whose expressive figurative work inspired by socio political narratives and personal stories, features in the exhibition, was one of six original staff in 1972 to build an art school at the Gippsland Institute of Education.  He developed the Ceramics Studio and taught and lectured  at G.I.A.E., through its various re-brandings to Monash University Gippsland Campus, now Federation University. He retired in 1994. Some 12 years after he arrived in Gippsland, students and members of arc from the art school with the same pioneering spirit, initiated the renovation of the arc building in Yinnar from its origins as a Butter factory and then built, along with other specialist studios, the current Ceramic Studio. Read more about Headley and his work at hedleypotts.weebly.com

Hedley Potts. Jeeralang Junction: Remembering Lucy 2021/22 & Jeeralang Junction:

Rescuing Lucy 1987

Hedley Potts Refugees: No Friend but NZ 2021

Hedley Potts, The Collection of Works at the Interconnections exhibition at arc

Owen Rye

Owen Rye, known internationally for being at the forefront of the contemporary wood-firing movement, undertook the position of lecturer at the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education from 1985 until 1991 and then Senior Lecturer from 1992 until 2003.  Members of arc that included Kiyoshi Ino and Dragi Jankovic built a wood fired kiln (now dismantled) at the rear of arc during this second era.  A collection of Owen’s wood fired jars and bottles are a beautiful presence within this exhibition.

Owen Rye Blue Jar, Stoneware, ash glaze 2020

Owen Rye, Ochre Jar, stoneware ash glaze, 2020 & Blue Jar, Stoneware ash glaze 2020

Owen Rye, front Mottled Jar, stoneware feldspar glaze, 2022.

Owen Rye The collection of Jars and Bottles

An exhibition by Liz Tyler, Sheena Jones and Melissa Thompson.

‘By mapping our lesions, we explore how vast is a our yearning’

Vitality:

The State of Being Strong and Active; Energetic; the Power giving Continuance of Life

Entry Forms available here in our online shop or at arc when your next in. Contact arc at 03 5163 1310 arcyinnar@speedweb.com.au

DELIVERY of labelled works and entry fees due between 12- 4 pm on Tues 19 October/ Wed 20 October or by prior arrangement.

Opening Event Saturday 23rd October 2pm

Christine Bourchier is the the Latrobe Regional gallery Emerging Artist award recipient for 2021. The Latrobe Regional award is a partnership between The Latrobe Regional Gallery, Federation University Gippsland campus Academy of the Arts and the Art Resource Centre arc in Yinnar. It is an award for excellence to Graduating students from the Arts Academy. Christine’s work during her final year included sculptural, mixed media and digital photography. Her exhibition Tenuous Perceptions will be from September 18 to October 17 in Gallery arc. Christine was also the recipient of the DVC Art Acquistion Award 2D. Gallery arc is open from Thursday to Sunday 12 noon to 4pm.