In Conversation with Dr Damon Moon

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.