Show Cart ( 0 item ) $0.00
Australian Ceramics Triennale 09

Special Events

For information regarding ceramic art exhibitions during the triennale, please click here.

 

Please scroll down the page to view these special events that are taking place pre and post conference:

 

  • Student Exhibition
  • The Great National Coffee Mug Competition
  • Pre-Conference Seminar - Making dollars and internet sense -e-marketing and finanical know-how for creative professionals
  • Renegade Clay
  • Bus & Walking Ceramic Exhibitions Tours
  • Ceramics Direct
  • NAS Winter School Workshops
  • Ceramics Auction

 

Emerging Artists EXHIBITION -  emerging artists/students attending the Triennale are offered and encouraged to take part in 'Drop In', an exhibition to be held at the National Art School for the duration of the conference. Emerging artists/students at the conference are invited to bring one piece of work with them to be dropped in at the NAS on the afternoon of Thursday 16th or the morning of Friday 17th July. The work must be clearly labeled with the artists name, title of work and contact details whilst in Sydney. The work can be for sale, but it is the responsibility of the artist to make contact with the buyer and deal with money themselves. Makers, teachers, gallery owners, magazine editors and collectors will be attending the Triennale in large numbers. This is a wonderful opportunity to showcase your work and be involved in a display of contemporary work from new makers across the country. We look forward to your participation.


THE GREAT NATIONAL COFFEE MUG COMPETITION

As a mark of respect to the late alan Peascod, Janet Mansfield is hosting the Great National Coffee Mug Competition in conjunction with the Australian Ceramics Triennale. Artists and Potters are asked to bring a set of six coffee mugs that best reflect our contemporary way of life for judging by the delegates of the conference. Prize money of $2,000 will be awarded to the winner and all works should be for sale. Click here to download entry forms.  

 

 The Great National Coffee Mug Competition

  

- Revisited - 

 

 

 

 Deborah Halpern. Victoria. 1981. Earthenware. Opaque white glaze with 

over-glaze decoration. The Great National Mug Competition.

Pottery in Australia. Nov/Dec. 1981. Vol 20/2. Collection: Janet Mansfield.

  

In 1981, at the 2nd National Australian Ceramic Conference, 800 entries were received for the Great National Coffee Mug Competition. The 650 delegates voted, in a secret ballot, for the set they liked the most. Jeff Mincham was the winner. Some of the sets of six were functional in a traditional way, some, like the Deborah Halpern set, shown above, offered a sculptural solution.  Many sets offered beauty, some were confrontational, and all drew comment and discussion.

 

For the Australian Ceramics Triennale ‘09, Sydney, the magazine Ceramics Art and Perception, established by Janet Mansfield, and with thanks to the support of the Australian ceramics community, will offer delegates to the conference a chance to revisit this event and bring a set of six coffee mugs with the chance to win $2000 for the set voted on by delegates as the most appropriate for contemporary life. The award is non-acquisitive but all sets should be for sale.

 

Janet is offering this project award as a mark of respect to the late Alan Peascod, whose practical and intelligent approach to ceramic art inspired many thoughtful, innovative and forward-thinking ideas to the ceramic field world-wide.

 

 

PRE-CONFERENCE SEMINAR:
Making dollars and internet sense – e-marketing and financial know-how for creative professionals
*FULL - WAITING LIST ONLY

Thursday 16 July 2009
9am- 5pm Level 47, MLC Centre, 19 Martin Place, Sydney
Does trying to understand your cash-flow send you potty? Eyes glaze overwhen you read your balance sheet? Are you a creative genius withyour product,
but not so creative with your marketing?This interactiveworkshop will provide you with the essential business skill set ofmarketing and finance, tailored 
especially for businesses in thecreative industries. Develop an online marketing plan and learn how tomake the most of your online presence. Combine 
this with anunderstanding of basic profit and loss statements, cash flow and pricinginformation and this all day workshop will provide you with the know-how
to put a price on your product, sell your product and, importantly, profit!
Carolyn Loton of Juntos Marketing has tailored a comprehensive all dayprogram, complete with templates and notes.This is also a great opportunity to 
network with other creativebusiness operators.This unique workshop will be held on Thursday 16 July 2009 at Level 47,MLC Centre, 19 Martin Place, Sydney.
Join us for a prompt 9.00 am start.The workshop will conclude at 5.00pm. Refreshments and lunch provided.There is no cost for this workshop, but places 
are limited. Book for the workshop online at: http://events.smallbiz.nsw.gov.au/Events.aspx?eventid=520

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
This workshop is a NSW Department of State and Regional Development

Initiative in partnership with the Australian Ceramics Triennale.

 

RENEGADE CLAY - ephemeral clay performances by six ceramic artists in six key positions across Sydney's CBD.

 

Bruce McWhinney, director of Renegade Clay, wishes to acknowledge the help and support of Karen Weiss, the committee of the Australian Ceramics Triennale and the artists, students, helpers and film makers, for making this exciting project possible.

A 60 minute DVD of Renegade Clay is in production, and a summary DVD will be shown on Monday July 20 at NAS at the conclusion of the Triennale. 

 

Renegade Clay is a world first project and a special satellite event of the Triennale. Renegade Clay is a series of six site specific Public Art events that will engage,

delight and fascinate the general public with two-hour acts of EMPHERAL CLAY PERFORMANCES and INSTALLATIONS in Sydney's CBD during weekday lunch hours. This is a celebration of the arts and in particular ceramic arts, taking our artists and their work to the streets, becoming part of the everyday life of Sydneysiders and it's visitors.

 

Renegade Clay Event Plan

Bringing clay to the People of Sydney We encourage conference delegates and all people interested in clay to attend these unique performances. 

Mitsuo Shoji - Spiral Butterflies Installataion
Monday July 6 - 12 noon- 2pm - Martin Place Amphitheatre
Mitsuo and helpers will encourage onlookers to participate in the making of clay butterflies to beplaced in a large spiral configuration in a gesture toward world peace.
Sue Jorgensen - Renegade Chairs Sculptural Installation
Tuesday July 7 - 12 noon- 2pm - Martin Place Amphitheatre
Sue and helpers will construct a sculptural installation out of remodelled chairs, which will be covered in soft terracotta clay and painted with white slip to be reminiscent of 
our cultural heritage.





Kristyn Taylor - Seated clay figure Installation
Wednesday July 8 - DixonSt Mall Haymarket
Kristyn and helpers will construct a life size clay figure seated on council seating. Perhaps he willbe eating Chinese Takeaway.

 

Honor Freeman - Objects in Odd circumstances
Thursday July 9 - Wed July 13 Various locations at Circular Quay and Martin Place
Honor will  place ceramic objects to create unusual ambiguity and raise public general awareness. Porcelain bars of soap and drain plugs will be
positioned in or near fountains. Porcelain door handles will be placed on building facades.

 

Simon Reece - TexturalClay Seating Monday July 13 - 12 noon- 2pm Martin Place amphitheatre

Simon will construct larger clay stools and seats out of coarse textural clay. The performancewill hinge on the direct and spontaneous interaction of the artist with material. 
Walter Auer - Clay In Motion: Tuesday July 14 - 12noon - 2pm Hyde Park Archibald Fountain
Walter and 12 students will perform a ritualistic creation of a pavement installation at the north side of Archibald fountain. The carrying and laying of clay slabs relates to both 
the relationship of clay to the architectural and cultural heritage of Sydney built by convict labour.
For more information about Renegade Clay, click here. 


CERAMICS DIRECT

 

Delegates are invited to bring their work to sell at Ceramics Direct. Ceramics Direct, a Makers Expo in the grounds of the historic National Art School offers collectors and artlovers an opportunity to buy work by fresh, emerging and established Australian ceramic artists, directly from the artists themselves. 

Date: Sunday 19th July, 12 - 1.30pm

Delegates wishing to participate are asked to put their name on a list when they come to the registrations desk at the National Arts School to give the organising comittee an idea of tables needed. Please bring your work in to the conference at the National Art School on the Sunday. Tables will be provided and will be set up late Sunday morning for you to start preparing your display. All set-up and money handling is the responsibility of the maker

 

  

EXHIBITION BUS TOURS AND SELF GUIDED WALKING TOURS

 

Download instructions and routes for bus tours.

Bus Route 1 download pdf 
Bus Route 2 download pdf

Self Guided Walking Tours - download pdf

Galleries Walking Tour - download pdf 

 

 

 

Gallery Bus Tours Timetable – Thursday July 16, 09,

Buses leave National Art School at 10. AM

 

Tour bus 1 


1. 10.30 Helen Stevens

Gallery

252-4 Bronte Road,

Bronte

2. 11.05 Rex Irwin Gallery

1st Floor, 38 Queen

Street, Woollahra,

3. 11.35 Ray Hughes

Gallery

270 Devonshire

Street Surry Hills

4. 12.05 Dank St Galleries

Brenda May &

Stella Downer

2 Danks Street,

Waterloo

 

Lunch 12.30-1.10pm


5. 1.20 Legge Gallery

183 Regent S,t

Redfern,


6. 1.55 Kerry Lowe

Gallery

49 King St,

Newtown


7. 2.40 Delmar Gallery

Trinity Grammar

School, 144

Victoria Street,

Ashfield


8. 3.10 Tin sheds Gallery

The Faculty of

Architecture, 148

City Road


9. 3.20 Tin Sheds Gallery

The Faculty of Architecture,

148 City Rd

 

Tour bus 2

 

1. 10.30 Birrung Gallery

2. 11.00 Gallery 41

3. 11.30 Mori Gallery

4. 12.05 Sabbia Gallery

72 Campbell Street,Surry

Hills 

Planet Furniture &Gallery

114 Commonwealth St

 

Lunch 12.30-1.10pm 

 

5. 1.10 Horus & Deloris Gallery

Level 2, 102 Pyrmont Street,

Pyrmont 

6. 1.45 Glebe Galleries ( walk)

Gig: 70A Glebe Point Rd,

Adagio: 91 Glebe Point Rd,

Red: Shop 11, 131-145

Glebe Point Rd,Glebe 

7. 2.25 Inner City Clay Workers

Gallery

St Johns Road and Darghan

Street, Glebe 

8. 2.50 Crissie Cotter Gallery

Pidcock St, Camperdown,

Sydney 

9. 3.20 Tin Sheds Gallery

The Faculty of Architecture,

148 City Rd 

 

Buses will pick up delegates at 5pm and return them to the National Art

School for the exhibition openings. 

 

 

AGNSW TOUR

Ceramics in the Asian Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales with Head Curator of Asian Art Jackie Menzies
Thursday 16 July 2-3pm
The Art Gallery of New South Wales has an extensive permanent display of Asian ceramics: in the lower East Asian gallery are to be seen Chinese Han to Tang dynasty earthenware tomb figures (mingqi), Ming imperial porcelains, objects for a scholar's desk, and stunning individual pieces, such as a large porcelain fish bowl. A smaller display of Korean ceramics includes Koryo celadons and an impressive piece by contemporary master Yoon Kwang-cho. Japanese ceramics include tea wares, plus a special display of contemporary works.
Ceramics are also in the upper Asian gallery: a long wall of export ceramics, organised according to their find spots in Asia: Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Displays also include Asian ceramics made for their own local markets. The displays provide a wealth of ceramic types across countries and centuries!
Meet at the information desk, ground level.

 

To book email Ann MacArthur This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  tel. 02 9225 1702 

 

POWERHOUSE MUSEUM - TOUR OF CERAMICS BASEMENT STORE WITH GRACE COCHRANE.

500 Harris Street,Ultimo. The tour of the Museumstorage area will provide an insight into the extentof the ceramicscollection. You will see the work of Australian, and someinternational, studiopotters; china painting and pottery from the 1920s;and Australianindustrial ceramics. Nearby are examples of European andEnglish and Asianceramics. Key ceramic pieces in the collection are in thepermanent exhibition,Inspired! Design across time. This exhibition includesall media in decorativearts, crafts and design, across three centuries. Thesecond section, Mark ofthe maker, focuses on the contemporary craftsmovement, from 1940 tothe present. Seewww.powerhousemuseum.com/exhibitions/inspired.asp


 

For those booked on thebasement tour, go to the Security Office, next tothe Museum in MacarthurStreet, 15 mins before the tour starts. From there,Curator Paul Donnelly accompanied by Grace Cochrane, will collect you. After the tour we can take youto the Museum for discounted entry ($6.00) whereyou can see at yourleisure, the Inspired! exhibition. 

Please contact thePowerhouse Museum for all bookings on tel: 02 9217 0222.

 

*Please note, both the Powerhouse and AGNSW tours are only open to delegates of the Australian Ceramics Triennale

 

  

WINTER SCHOOL WORKSHOPS AT THE NATIONAL ART SCHOOL

13-16th July 2009 - 4days 

 

Wheelforming with Takeshi Yasuda

 

Master Potter Takeshi Yasuda will demonstrate a wide range of wheelforming processes and bring to this workshop his personal and professional experience of Eastern and Western traditional and contemporary wheelforming. Make the most of this unique opportunity to learn from a world-class ceramicist. Open to all levels; selected work is bisque fired and stoneware clay is supplied.

 

Hand-building with Virginia Scotchie

 

Discover how ordinary objects can become extraordinary through dissection and reinterpretation of everyday materials. Visiting American ceramic artist Virginia Scotchie guides you to develop a new vocabulary of assembling and building clay sculptures using coil, slabs and pinching techniques. Explore the relationships between groups and sets of clay objects and the alternative surface possibilities of textured surfaces, metallic glazes, layering glazes and multiple firings. All clay supplied.

 

For information and registration please contact Public Programs at the National Art School  Ph: 93398745

www.nas.edu.au 

Australian and International Ceramic Auction
Shapiro Auctioneers and Gallery is hosting an Australian and International Ceramic Auction to coincide with the Australian Ceramics Triennale.Viewing for this auction will be 
14 - 21 July 2009 At: Shapiro, 162 Queen Street, WoollahraAuction: Tuesday 21 July, 6pmAt: Shapiro, 162 Queen Street, WoollahraShapiro Auctioneers & Gallery
Ph: +612 9326 1588Fax: +612 9326 1305Email: 
 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
 Web: www.shapiro.com.au