Tess Brady

Ceramics

The Mulled Wine Cups series

Tess and June Johnstone have been working with local clay, ash and rock to develop their own glazes.

Most of this work has been carried out as part of the Diploma of Arts, Ceramics Arts Academy, University of Ballarat

Several mulled wine cups were exhibited in September 2005 in
Arts Academy Ceramics: A selection of work from staff and students of the arts academy, degree and diploma programs
University of Ballarat Post Office Gallery

For details of their glaze journal see Experiments in Ash Glaze
and our article: "A Landscape in Ash, Rock and Clay" Johnstone, June and Tess Brady, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Vol 45 No 2, 2006, Pp65-67.

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Desert Eggs: refugee dreaming

The Australian Howard government maintains a policy of detaining refugees who have arrived illegally, in prison camps in the desert. They are kept in these detention camps for years while their cases are slowly assessed. Children are also detained in these prisons. Many consider this treatment of the refugees a national disgrace.

The eggs are made of raku clay, stoneware fired, shino glaze.

page last modified October 2006