TACTT 2019 Team

Vicki Grima

In my position with The Australian Ceramics Association I work with a diverse, dynamic membership of over 1200 studio potters and ceramicists.

To balance this intense office work, I squeeze in small amounts of time in my home studio, finding a quiet place to play with clay and make small, personal pinched forms.

For me, the Triennale in Tasmania offers the chance for the ceramics community to gather together face-to-face, and celebrate this amazing material in every way we possibly can.

For last 25 years my passion in ceramics has been coloured porcelain and nerikomi technique. In 2011, I moved from ‘the design village’, Fiskars, Finland, to Tasmania. I feel privileged to have been able to live in two amazing places on this planet. My years in Fiskars were rich and packed full with exhibitions (international and national) and travels, whereas my Tasmanian years have been more focused on building, renovating and making this new place to my home.

We all know the beauty of Tasmanian nature, but one reason for me to join the ACT committee was to share also the laid back, realaxed and community-oriented lifestyle of Tasmania to you all and hopefully form this in our ceramic world as well.

Serena Rosevear

I’ve been playing with clay since 2009 when I made my first tentative steps into university education.  Conceptually I’m interested in small stories at the periphery of bigger histories.  Most of my work is site responsive, often very low fired or unfired, sometimes employing water or time as partners in disintegration.  Having lived my whole life in Tasmania my work is intimately connected to my home state’s past, present and future. As a member of this Triennale committee I hope to provide professional practice experience to ceramic artists while helping clay enthusiasts engage with ceramics as a contemporary artistic medium.

Dee Taylor-Graham

Hi, I’m Dee -maker, writer, teacher, performer, rabble rouser and erstwhile gardener.

I joined the triennale team via a love of the ceramic arts, a quest for rigorous content representing a diversity of practice and the desire to hear new voices in our field. 

I am curious about the role of a material-specific conference in this post-material post-post-modern (?) age but I also know that my favourite people are clay people.  I am truly looking forward to being amongst you all again in 2019. 

Andrea Barker

As a former Melbournian now residing in Hobart it was important to me to make a contribution to this place by being involved in the organising committee of The Australian Ceramics Triennale.
As a Ceramic Artist I work primarily in Porcelain making both functional ware and ‘Object’ works of Art, exploring human concerns of truth & humility and notions of stillness, silence and simplicity.

James Edwards

Hi! I’m an emerging ceramic artist newly based in Hobart. My work flirts around the boundaries of performance, installation and ephemeralism. Using a variety of clay bodies with slip-casting as the predominant creation method, the ceramic components produced act as props within the larger environments created. 

I’m interested in the role of ceramics as a tool for activating/engaging or distancing/denying the audience access to a work. The audience as such becomes implicit in the work’s completion – polar responses of either engagement or refusal to engage are equal validations of a work’s potentiality.

 Being a part of the conference team is a great chance to give something back to the ceramics community that has so generously assisted my peer-to-peer and institutional learning to date. 

Thank you! 

Image credit: Alex Hullah

Alby

Alby is an independent creative project manager who has been engaged by the Triennale team to deliver a few aspects of the 2019 Triennale – the Makers Fair, Pot Shop, Trade Stalls and Workshops; as well as providing Artist Support for all our visiting Artists.

Alby has worked across Australia on a wide range of visual arts, craft and design projects; including public art, exhibitions, festivals and creative events. Alby delivers award-winning projects that provide an ongoing dialogue between creative activation and community cultural growth.

Alby is, of course, also a potter.

Nov 2016 – Oct 2018  Chair, Tasmanian Committee and Director, Australian Ceramics Triennale Ltd

My return to clay in 2016 coincided with my new life in Tasmania. It has been fabulous to return to life as a studio potter which originally began in the Blue Mountains, NSW in the mid 70s with an Australia Council Grant. I enthusiastically volunteered to be part of the local organising team of the 15th Australian Ceramics Triennale in Hobart given my passion for ceramics and my professional involvement in event and place management over the past 20 years. I am proud to have been vitally active in establishing state and local government support for the conference, including sponsorship of the venue, PW1. The Hobart Triennale will be one to remember and I wish the event every success in extending the re-emergence of ceramics as a viable career now and into the future.