Dec 2000 issue Special Focus -
Contemporary Porcelain

Profiles on Australia's top ceramic artists using porcelain clays made in Australia and imported. Victor Greenaway, Pippin Drysdale, Prue Venables, Patsy Hely, Antony Brink and Neville French are ceramic artists experienced in the use porcelain. Each artist brings a confidence and deftness of touch which allows the subtle qualities of this special material to speak loudly.

Fleur Schell introduces the element of sound into her porcelain installations which combine found objects with porcelain. Artists Mathew Blakely, Petra Murphy, Kaye Pmeberton, Aleida Pullar, Brigette Power and Ruth McMillan, Kirsten Coehlo, Stephanie Livesey and Phillip Hart, Ashlee Critchley are making their own journeys of discovery creating vessels and objects of great diversity using porcelain. Their work is innovative and inspiring.

Stephen Bowers provides a 'potted' history of porcelain written with a characteristic mix of fact and wit.

This issue includes glaze pages from Alistaire Whyte and Sandra Black given recipes and hints for glazing porcelains as well as some mid fire recipes.

Regular features such as artist showcase, reviews of exhibitions, 'Postcard' (from Geoff Crispin in Papua New Guinea),

Technical Updates on safety issues, how to fire a gas kiln, and a pictorial 'how-to' on making a slump mould Plus technical information on Australian Porcelain bodies. A bumper issue for holiday reading.