Collaboration
MJ Callaghan
MJ Callaghan, Australian composer and sound artist of Those Who Ride With Giants, and I are collaborating on the final component of The Self Reconciliation Project. His latest album is the film score for the movie RIDE produced by American studio Margate House Films.
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I’ll be heading to Western Australia at the end of February 2025 to spend two weeks in MJ's studio.
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Reading about The Reconciliation Project
AIR, Fremantle Art Centre (2022)
AIR, Central Craft (2023)
Collaboration MJ Callaghan (2025)
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The collaboration is supported
by the Regional Arts Development Fund
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MJ Callaghan, sound artist and composer
Avi Amesbury, ceramics
Pottery Expo Warrandyte
The Pottery Expo Warrandyte was founded by IAC Member Jane Annois in 2001. It is now an annual event that showcases the work of ninety selected studio artists from around Australia, and international guest artists.
This year IAC Members from the Oceania region have been invited to exhibit at the Expo and will present a panel discussion about the International Academy of Ceramics and the recent 2024 Congress held in Portgual.
AIC Members exhibiting include Janet Deboos, Ted Secombe, Simone Fraser, Greg Daly, Prue Venables, Owen Rye, Sally Walk, Jane Sawyer, Rob Barron, Paul Davis, Avi Amesbury, Jane Annois, and Andrea Baker.
Hope to see you there.
Wedge 2025
The Australian Ceramics Triennale
2 - 5 October 2025, Fremantle, Western Australia
Wedge 2025 aims to identify and interrogate the increasingly complex interactions between ceramic practice and current ethical, aesthetic, personal, and environmental concerns. The seventeenth Triennale is shaping up to be an exciting programme with delegates attending from all over the globe.
I’ll be presenting my practice led research paper on The Reconciliation Project. The presentation will focus on the residencies undertaken at the Fremantle Art Centre (2022) and Central Craft (2023), the collaboration with composer/sound artist MJ Callaghan (2025), and the processes involved in creating new work for the exhibition at Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery (BRAG).
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NEWS
December 2024
Collaboration
MJ Callaghan
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MJ Callaghan, Australian composer and sound artist, and I are collaborating on the final component of The Self Reconciliation Project.
Over the course of the project storytelling has become a focus and I’ve been exploring the use of different media to tell the story.
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​My ambition for the collaboration is for it to be experimental.
November 2023
The Self Reconciliation Project (May and June 2023)
As artist-in-residence at Central Craft in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) I continued to explore the notion of self reconciliation.
The project investigated connection to 'place' through the Australian landscape (an external lens) which aims to bring together these two lines of perspectives - family history and connection to 'place'.
June 2022