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  • 1 Sake cups receive honorable mention in Mino, Japan ...
  • DSC_6665_s ... Sake cup ’Strata’ ...
  • DSC_6672_s ... Sake cup ’Strata’ ...
  • DSC_7225_s ... Sake cup ’Strata’ ...
  • DSC_8502_s ... Sake cup ’Flame’ at the London Design Festival 2011 ...
  • DSC_8540_s ... the colour of the sky as seen through a rift in the clouds after rain ...
  • DSC_8596_s ... Sake cup ’Flame’ at the London Design Festival ...
  • DSC_9780_s ... Sake cup ’Flow’ ...
  • DSC_9795_s ... translucent Southern Ice porcelain ...
  • DSC_9872_s ... coloured liquid porcelain forms the body ...
  • DSC_9939_s ... Sake cup ’Water’ Manises, Spain Dec-Jan 2012.

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Tripod Guinomi 2011 (sake cups) - a collection of translucent porcelain vessels for drinking sake or spirits based on the form of the tripod. The cups are made of Southern Ice porcelain, sometimes mixed with oxides to create an organic, textured surface. The exterior surface is unglazed and hand polished to give a smooth tactile surface while the curving contours of the base closely accommodate the fingers so the cup feels balanced and comfortable in the hand. The interior is glazed with a clear, rare earth or ice blue celadon glaze. read more, view images.

contemporary ceramic design - collection of slip cast sculpture entitled biomimesis

Biomimesis 2009 - an installation of slip cast porcelain sculptures. The source objects for this installation were created as digital forms using open source 3D software before being rendered as physical objects using rapid prototyping technology... read more, view images.
contemporary ceramic design - collection of slip cast sculpture entitled Biomimesis

biomimesis - Generated Objects 3 and 4 illuminated internally with LEDs

Biomimesis was selected for inclusion in an exhibition entitled White at the State Library of Queensland, Southbank, Brisbane in February 2010. The exhibition was organised by the Italian consulate and Artisan Gallery and featured work in porcelain by artists from Australia and Lombardy, Italy.

contemporary ceramic design - collection of wheel-thrown sculpture entitled vol_Luminous

The International Magazine of Ceramic Art and Craft, Ceramic Review (link opens in a new window), features vol_Luminous (below) in the May/June 2008 edition.
contemporary ceramic design - collection of wheel-thrown sculpture entitled vol_Luminous

vol_Luminous - an installation of wheel-thrown ceramic sculptures illuminated with fibre optic cables and LEDs

As winner of the award of merit from the Design Institute of Australia in the Queensland Design Awards, a selection of work illustrated here was exhibited in ’Design Excellence in Queensland’ at the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane in June 2006.
This collection of ceramic works entitled ’vol_Luminous’ comprises 17 wheel-thrown closed sculptural forms. All pieces are white stoneware clay fired to either 1280 degrees in reduction or to 1200 degrees in oxidation. They are finished with an original range of satin matt glazes.

Most pieces contain several hundred fibre optic cables (Aldebaran, centre-back above contains a single side-lit fibre optic cable) illuminated with LEDs to create patterns of light across parts of the surfaces of the works.

The collection is, in part, inspired by modern architectural forms and features and by organic forms, particularly those of succulent plants: holes in the surfaces of the pieces form patterns reminiscent of iterative growth patterns.

vol_Luminous was designed as an installation. Each piece had to work as a piece of sculpture in the daytime while, like a building, it had to appear differently at night illuminated from both within and without.