Cairns Potters Club Inc. August 2015 Newsletter ABN 60 623 179 734 Postal Address PO Box 1470, Cairns QLD 4870 Clubhouse 28a Grove St Cairns 4870 Newsletter Editor Lone White President Lone White Phone contact 40 537 508 Email cairnspottersclub@hotmail.com - Website www.cairnspottersclub.net Fired ceramic piece from Adil Writer s workshop Page 1
President: Lone White. Vice President: Kylie McKenna Secretary: - Erica West Minute Secretary: Christina George Treasurer: Mark Davis Librarian: Christina George Kiln Booking Officer: Jennifer Arthur Newsletter: still vacant (acting newsletter editor -Lone White) Glass Officer: vacant Website Manager: - Jennifer Arthur Clay Officer:- Di Sant. Committee Members; The following members have agreed to be on the Committee: Rebecca Barnes, Claire Heathcock, Glenys Lonie, Heather McCoy & Hedy Verhulst, CLUB MEETINGS The Management Committee of the Club meets at 4.30 pm on the first Monday of the month at the Club premises at 28a Grove Street Cairns. Members are welcome to attend and/or bring issues to the Committee at these meetings. The next Management Committee meeting will take place Monday 7 September 2015 at 4.30 pm. All members are welcome. A word from the President. The glaze room extension is finished, thanks to an infrastructure grant of $ 38,000 from the Cairns Regional Council and we now also have the spray booth in place. This month we hope to start getting all the raw glaze materials placed in the room, plus plenty of glazes sorted out. The Cairns Show pottery and sculpture display this year (see page 4) did not have as many entries as last year. Hopefully next year we will have more works by Cairns Potters Club members on display. Adil Writer -potter/painter & architect from Mandala pottery in Auroville India conducted a great workshop at the clubhouse Sunday 19 July ( page 7) where all who attended learnt new skills. The next event for the club will be OPEN STUDIO 2015 (page 5). Please note: Opinions expressed or advertisements displayed by contributors to this newsletter are not necessarily those of the Editor, Executive Officers or the Committee. Whilst every effort is made to publish accurate information, Cairns Potters Club Inc. accepts no responsibility for statements made or opinions expressed. Page 2
At the Clubhouse CLASSES: SATURDAY MORNING between 9am and 11.30 am wheel throwing classes for beginners and advanced potters. Contact Marc Lucas on 40370381. EVENING CLASSES -Wheel throwing and hand building class for beginners and existing potters who would like to refresh their skills.- Tues and Wed evenings from 6:30 to 9:00.. Contact Yuki @ yuki.koyuki@hotmail.com or 0438741922 (prefer SMS) CHILDREN S CLASSES Hopefully classes will be starting shortly. OTHER ACTIVITIES: MONDAY AFTERNOONS - Partners In Recovery group classes 1 4 pm TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY MORNINGS - CLUB MEMBERS GET TOGETHER Between 9 and 12 noon no cost involved. Members can practise their hand building, wheel throwing, decorating and glazing techniques and perhaps share a firing, also a chance to get to know other potters and share their joy in pottery making. Contact Glenys 0487194747 or Yuki on 0438741922 (prefer SMS) THURSDAY AFTERNOONS - BAWU classes CLUB NEWS HELPERS NEEDED! The glaze room is finished and Geoff Gosman has delivered his special spray booth. We will now begin to sort out our glaze materials and make up new glazes. Unfortunately no club members contacted us to volunteer to help shift materials and clean up the clubhouse, so the committee have decided to postpone the clean up to next month hoping we can get some more helpers, please contact Lone ( 40537508). Any help would be appreciated. Page 3
Thanks to all the club members who helped set up and take down the display at the show and those who found time to be on the roster. Hundreds of people came and had a look at the display, so it was a good way to promote ceramics. Results from the judging of the Cairns Show sculpture and ceramic section CHAMPION 3 D WORK OF SHOW Jennie Scott Natures Alarm Clock Sculpture Open 1. Amanda McGahan The bathers 2. Amanda Purkiss Angel Highly commended - Anne Falconer Class 25008 Pottery Open Page 4 1. Tom Britton Blackie 2. Ken Ison Tea Pot Highly commended Geoffrey Gosman.
OPEN STUDIO 2015 Unearth your local potters On Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th August, hundreds of potters and ceramic artists across Australia will open their studios to the public for a weekend of clay, creativity and community. We also plan to open the Cairns Potters Club s doors to the public over that weekend between 10am and 4 pm. We are inviting members of the public and tourists to have a go at wheel throwing or hand building, look at our facilities and buy pots. On the Saturday they may also be able to participate in a Raku firing. Also opening up studios are : Frantik Designs 33 Kiernan St Manunda and Bundarra Pottery 145 Atherton Road Malanda. If you want to display and sell some of your pots during that weekend, please let us know, as we will reserve one table for you. You do not need to be present all the time over that weekend, however you need to be part of the roster. As usual we need you to provide us with a sales sheet with all items for sale and stickers on the artworks with initials, number and price. We take 20% commission on sales.. We also need helpers to show people around - for the sales table and to help budding potters to handbuild or work on the wheel. Any potters interested in participating please contact Lone on 40537508 or email lone@tpg.com.au. We need plenty of helpers. On the Saturday we will also be having a Raku firing, so if you are interested in participating in the firing bring bisque works suitable for Raku firing (fast firing up to approx 1000 degrees C in half an hour), you may also be able to buy a bisque pot at the club on the day. We will provide Raku glazes for you to apply to the pots, however if you have some exciting raku glazes yourself, please bring them as well. Wednesday 12 August from 12 noon we will be reconstituting the club s Raku glazes and make up more glazes, so if you have time to help or want to learn how to make up glazes, please call in at the clubhouse during the afternoon. BeLonging: embodied commentaries inspired by place was an exhibition of works by over 140 members of the Australian Ceramics Association displayed at the National Ceramic conference in Canberra in July 2015. (Have a look at the Australian ceramics website, where all the pots are displayed individually). All the works ranged from sculptural and functional to conceptual; some were handbuilt, others wheelthrown and many were experimenting with new technologies. The size of the works had been limited to no larger than 15cms in any dimension. Two of our members were part of the exhibition Annette Tranter and Lone White. Page 5
: We are again running short of some types of clay and will be sending an order to the Clay Shed 10 August 2015, so if you wish us to order clay or materials for you, then please contact Lone ( 40537508 or lone@tpg.com.au) as soon as possible. CLAY FOR SALE Prices as at 1 /5/15 *Non members of Cairns Potters Club will have to pay $5 extra pr bag. Clay types can all be fired to stoneware temp except Feeneys Terracotta Sales price per bag Blackwattle White Paper Clay stoneware $ 25 Walkers No 10 $ 22 Walkers White hand building $19 Walkers Feeneys white stoneware $ 19 Walkers PB 103 $ 22 Feeneys dark stoneware $ 18 Feeneys Red stoneware $ 18 Feeneys White Raku - stoneware $ 18 Feeneys Buff Raku (Trachite) $ 18 Feeneys Terracotta $ 16 Keanes White Raku $ 24 Keanes Special K $ 26 Keanes stoneware 7 $ 26 Keanes Porcelain $ 26 Orton cone 10, 9, 8, 06,04 each $0.60 If you would like to purchase some clay please contact Di Sant on 40324487 or 0419657553 email disantart@gmail.com Payment for clay can be either cash or chq to Di Sant on 40324487 or 0419657553 or directly deposited into the Club s Bendigo Bank A/C by making an electronic transfer to the following bank account showing your name and reference to clay and/or materials Cairns Potters Club Account # 119552826 BSB 633-000 North Queensland Potters Association is no longer organising biennial ceramic award exhibitions at Perc Tucker s Gallery in Townsville. The Director of the Gallery is calling for entries to the 2016 biennial North Queensland Ceramic Awards - Exhibition 4 March 1 May 2016 entries closes 11 December 2015 Entry forms from Pinnacles Gallery 20 Village Boulevard, Townsville Qld 4810-0747738871 or pinnacles@townsville.qld.gov.au Page 6
REPORT FROM WORKSHOP LETTING GO a one day workshop with Adil Writer -potter/painter & architect from Mandala pottery in Auroville India.(19 July 2015). The title was very appropriate, as Adil certainly did things with clay we had not seen before and broke many of the rules, we were taught while studying ceramics. The workshop was well attended with 17 participants. Reports back about the workshop by participants have been, that they enjoyed the workshop very much and some have already tried to use some of Adil s techniques. Our member Susan Reys participated in a glaze firing with Adil and sold straight after the firing at the CIAF Fair 4 pieces inspired by his method of stretching clay and using sodium silicate. Page 7
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