North Queensland Ceramic Award

2024 / Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, QLD

Sarah Ormonde

Field Notes from Home 2024

High fired stoneware

Satin matte, high fired

Set of 3:

Vase 1: 19 x 26 cm

Vase 2: 19 x 17 cm

Vase 3: 19 x 27cm

Image courtesy of the artist. Phot: Craig Bryant

Abut the artwork

Field Notes from Home is a series of vases drawn from the low headlands of the far south coast of NSW.

They describe the dense bush interrupted by fence lines defining paddocks, rushes encircling dams and the headlands meeting the sea. They are Winter pieces: the tourists have gone, and the coast is resting, the land is shrouded in shadows, and the sky is filled with cloud.

The surfaces of the work are layered with slips and oxides to explore the movement of the elements that have created this place. The line work traces the moments when the land has been walked over or scarred by use.

These are notes from my home.

Works

Photography: Art Ateler / Craig Bryant (Catalogue)