The Australian Ceramics Podcast

We launched the July 2026 issue of The Journal of Australian Ceramics at our in-person event hosted by Noosa Regional Gallery. Our willing panelists gathered for a ranging discussion on the focus topic, MONEY & MEANING.

Queensland artists Mollie Bosworth, Aelish Healy, and Clairy Laurence, joined art historian Dr Louise Mayhew, and Pottery For The Planet founder Renton Bishopric to tackle questions like:

What does it mean to make for a living? What is this built upon? What does success mean? What is the impact of it?
What does pricing do? Where is our craft going?

Recorded by Jane Orme at Noosa Regional Gallery, Saturday 17 July 2026. Duration 1:12:41. Be advised this recording contains a language warning.

Go deeper into this topic in The Journal of Australian Ceramics Vol 65/2, published July 2026. SHOP HERE.

Q&A with Bridie Moran to talk through the call for applications for Bodies of Evidence (recorded 18 March 2026) ahead of the application deadline. 

Applications for Bodies of Evidence close: Monday 4 May 2026, 5pm AEST.

For more information and to apply go to https://australianceramics.com/exhibitions/bodies-of-evidence

 

To view the Manly Art Gallery & Museum exhibition space (mentioned in this discussion) a virtual tour can be accessed at https://www.northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au/things-to-do/arts-and-culture/manly-art-gallery-museum/venue-hire

 

Bodies of Evidence: Experimentation in Contemporary Australian Ceramics is an exhibition of work pushing the scientific boundaries of ceramics in 2027. It aims to highlight contemporary Australian ceramic practitioners exploring scientific questions – from climate change to physics – and presents ‘finished’ works alongside the ephemera of experimentation, including test tiles, process photographs, and ‘failed’ attempts. Visitors to Manly Art Gallery & Museum will delve into ceramic research, experiments, and findings – and the big questions that these works try to answer.

 

The Australian Ceramics Association and Manly Art Gallery & Museum are calling for applications aligned with this curatorial theme.

 

https://australianceramics.com/exhibitions/bodies-of-evidence

This conversation was recorded at the Australian Ceramics Triennale on 1 May 2019 at Princes Wharf One, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Barbara Campbell-Allen was joined by Prue Venables after her conversation with Lisa Cahill about her recent award as an Australian Design Centre National Living Treasure.

http://pruevenables.com

https://australiandesigncentre.com/prue-venables/
Acclaimed ceramicist Prue Venables is the ninth artist in the Australian Design Centre series Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft, which celebrates the achievements of Australia’s most iconic craft practitioners. A series of solo exhibitions honour eminent and highly respected craftspeople, celebrating their mastery of skill, their achievements, their contribution to Australian craft, and the unique place they occupy in the national design culture.

Prue Venables shows a true mastery of materials. She demonstrates a profound understanding of porcelain, that most precious and temperamental of clays, whose fine-grain and opaque qualities are expressed in rigorous works of refined detail. These handmade functional artworks possess clarity, luminosity and a quiet beauty.

The forms are simple and elegant, with a minimal colour palette and subtle exaggerations – an oval lip or an elongated handle – that create a distinctive visual language. The works in this exhibition explore the significance of everyday objects through multiple sequences of forms in porcelain, with additional elements in metal and wood.

This conversation was recorded at the Australian Ceramics Triennale on 2 May 2019 at Princes Wharf One, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Barbara Campbell-Allen was joined by Dr Damon Moon after his moderation of, and participation in Meeting the Market / Making A Living, a panel with participants Jane Annois, Andrei Davidoff, Eloise Rankine and Anna-Marie Wallace.

Dr Damon Moon is Creative Director at CLAD, the Bendigo Pottery Centre for Learning and Design, a large, fully equipped ceramic studio sitting within Bendigo Pottery’s extensive manufacturing facility.

From 2013 to 2018, he was Creative Director of the ceramics studio at JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design in Adelaide, South Australia.

He is an Adjunct Researcher in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Tasmania.

Damon Moon is also one of Australia’s most prolific commentators on contemporary and historic ceramics, with over fifty published articles, catalogue essays and he has contributed to several major publications, including co-authoring the 2014 SALA monograph ‘Beyond Bravura’ on Stephen Bowers for Wakefield Press.

Damon’s own practice as a maker sees him straddle the worlds of art, craft and design. In 2018 he is showing work in Milan as part of the 5 Vie ART + DESIGN WEEK series during the Milan Design Fair, and in 2018 exhibited his own work in response to the collections of Shepparton Art Museum, Bendigo Art Gallery and the La Trobe Art Institute.

In May 2019 Damon curated ‘Manifest’, The Australian Ceramics Association Biennial Exhibition as part of Holding Space/Making Place, the 2019 Australian Ceramics Triennale in Hobart, Tasmania.