Speakers for this event

• Alicja Patanowska

  Alicja Patanowska

  In her artistic practice, Alicja Patanowska combines glass with porcelain, and visual arts with designing, always aiming to engage the audience. What is characteristic of her art is the recurrent topic of waste. She considers craft skills to be crucial for her artistic practice as she designs and learns through the making process. She graduated from the Royal College of Art in London (2014) and the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław (2012). Her products are available in many places, including Merci in Paris, London’s Barbican and New York’s MoMA. The laureate of a number of awards, such as Gazeta Wyborcza’s WARTO (2017), must have!, (2016), British Glass Biennial (2015), her works also form a part of several art and design collections, one of which belongs to the Shanghai Museum of Glass. click here to go to Alicja’s website Image: Of Mice and Men (2016), porcelain, taxidermia photographer: Alicja Kielan

• Greg Daly

  Greg Daly

  A maker for 50 years. Member if the International Ceramic Academy since1986 100 solo exhibitions. Over 250 group exhibitions throughout Australia & 23 countries. Represented in over 80 National & International Art Galleries & Museums including National Gallery of Australia, all State collections, Victoria & Albert Museum (London). He has received 37 National & International awards. Author of Glazes & Glazing Techniques, Lustre and Developing Glazes. @gregdalyceramics click here to go to Greg’s website Portrait: John Daly

• Kenji Uranishi

  Kenji Uranishi

  Kenji Uranishi is an Australian-based, Japanese artist who explores ideas around nature and the built environment, place and belonging. Kenji studied at the Nara College of Fine Arts and began his career in Japan working mostly with stoneware clay. A move to Australia in 2004 signalled a critical shift in his practice as he began working predominantly with porcelain, hand building translucent white, often architecturally inspired objects. A turning point came in 2014 when he received an Asialink residency (funded by Arts Queensland) to spend 12 weeks in Arita in Kyushu – a place many consider to be the birthplace of porcelain in Japan. During that time, Kenji worked with local craftspeople, designers and artists to explore new directions in his ceramic practice, including with a master mould maker who shared the techniques of his craft. Returning to Australia, Kenji continued to explore this process and began hand-carving moulds for slip casting to construct and expand modular forms. He first showed the results of this work, in combination with slab-built sculptural pieces, in his 2016 solo exhibition at the Museum of Brisbane, Momentary. Comprising 50 sculptures, the installation captured Kenji’s interest in the wild and unfamiliar aspects of the Australian environment, and the light and patterns in architecture, nature and everyday life. Kenji’s artworks are held in a number of public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, and feature in public spaces including 400 George Street, Brisbane and the Ipswich Courthouse, Queensland. During 2018, he was undertaking three new public art projects. Kenji lives and works in Brisbane. click here to go to Kenji’s website Image: Danpen X (2018), slipcast porcelain, 5 x 34 x 34cm