Suvira McDonald
One If By Land
Recent Ceramic Works

Exhibition: 5 to 23 September 2006

The vital element in producing work on a landscape theme is the energy within me on returning from the country. This is the exhilaration and enthusiasm that fills me as I begin the process of translating that experience. For the past three years my landscape panels have centred on the Mount Warning Caldera, the Glasshouse mountains and Girraween National Park, the ancient land forms of northern NSW and SE Queensland. With a visit to Central Australia last year began a new inspirational surge.

The landscape impression: red remains of weathered earth aged beyond comprehension, bristling yellowed Spinifex, black Corkwood trunks and whining Desert Oak, fills each movement in clay. Poignantly, it exists as a single point suspended in vast geological time.

Most of the work was been fired in a 2 months period late 2005, the copper red glazes forming the basis of a new palette.

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