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Week 2: Response to DPAG Visit

Peter Hawkesby.  "Heart Basket & other work."  Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 21 February 2026 - 24 May 2026.
Peter Hawkesby in studio.
Effort at different textures.
Working with different clays there is the problem of different shrinkage rates which leads to cracking.  I did make one pot with two clays, but ended up with swirl rather than distinct patches or bands.  Another approach I need to try is to mix the stains in the clay.
Is it possible to represent different textures, colours and shades using different clays and surface treatments?

Cover, Feb. 2019 issue of Ceramics Monthly
Locke referred me to the works of Sue Scobie, which is very much on point.  Even before seeing these I had been wanting to look more into porcelain.

Form Gallery: "She primarily takes inspiration from the world around her - the colours, forms, sounds and textures of the land, sea and bush are limitless. All of Sue’s work is hand-formed by pinching and coiling using combinations of porcelain and stoneware clays with the silky, translucent porcelain contrasting with the rough, gritty stoneware."
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