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hand cast porcelain geraniums.
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hand cast porcelain geraniums.
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We are delighted to announce that Northcote Pottery will be sponsoring the Crumbling Ecologies Project.
This week I got to meet Ray and the team from Northcote, they helped me load and unload their enormous kiln. I was filled with pride seeing it flooded with hundreds of porcelain Geraniums.
I am so grateful to everyone that has opened up their classrooms, homes and kilns to help out with the project!
We are pleased to announce the Australian Ceramics Association's support of the Crumbling Ecologies Project. Since publicising the project nationally I have been getting emails every few hours from artists across Australia wanting to get involved. This is completely unexpected and very exciting!!
The ACA will be monitoring and contributing to the project through out it's development. We will be working together to publish an article in the Australian Journal of Ceramics later in the year.
New from the studio today....our first batch of Porcelain Geranium leaves have come out of the kiln and they have cast beautifully!
a few hundred more batches and we should be nearly there : )
a big thank you to Sharon and Jess for their contribution.
In many parts of the world there are species of geranium that are critically endangered or extinct. The garden geranium is on the Australian National Heritage Trust’s Alert List for Environmental Weeds that threaten biodiversity and cause environmental damage. Soon to become a huge pest to Victoria’s native flora and fauna, they are one of the most popular commercially sold garden plants. In Victoria, geraniums sit ambiguously between a plant and a weed, deriving connotations of being out-dated and old fashioned. One of the key arguments used to justify the closure of media based studios including glass, ceramics and metals is that they have become out-dated and no longer relevant to contemporary arts practice and research. Geraniums signify the economic impact on the ecological equilibrium and the importance of preserving craft as a diverse form of contemporary arts practice within Victoria.
http://www.weeds.gov.au/publications/guidelines/alert/p-alchemilloides.html, Australian Government, Department of Environment and Heritage- CRC Australian Weed Management.
