The Journal of Australian Ceramics | April 2024

FOCUS: DOMESTIC MATERIAL
PENNY EVANS
SEAN MILLER
TINGLE TABLE
THE POSTMASTER
WASTE VEGETABLE OIL KILN
TABLED

From the Editor: The domestic can be a place of comfort, or conflict, or both. It is a place of thinking and attitude-forming, and, if we are fortunate, a place of rest. In trying to find a way through this issue’s theme DOMESTIC MATERIAL, I am left dwelling on questions – what conversations are we having? What material furnishes the inner spaces of our hearts and minds?

In this issue there is intimacy in exhibition themes and profiles, cultural memory in current tableware, the domesticity of furniture, and a kiln fired with a domestic waste product – vegetable oil.

Featured in JAC 631: Penny Evans, Claire G. Coleman, Ruby Yu-Lu Yeh, do° Pottery, Room23 Ceramics, Wonki & J Ceramics, Ellis Moseley and Mark Jones, Ian Jones, Georgia Zoric, Sean Miller, Tina Baum, Kirk Winter, Kaz Davis, Danish Quapoor, Parker Lev Dupain and Kate Jones, Dee Taylor-Graham, Everything Flows, Elaine Kim, Mikaila Rodgers, Siliceous Award for Ceramic Excellence, Hannah Vorrath-Pajak, Sarah Stubbs, Angie Russi, Belmont Potters Group, and the TABLED exhibition catalogue.

The Journal of Australian Ceramics (JAC) is a valuable resource for professional and amateur ceramicists, teachers and students at all levels, galleries, arts administrators, curators, scholars, buyers and collectors. It features profiles on ceramicists, potters and makers; reviews of ceramic exhibitions and/or books; previews of upcoming events; critical reports and/or commentaries; research papers; and community reports. Formerly known as Pottery in Australia (PIA), the magazine was first published in May 1962 (Vol 1, No 1). As Australia’s most widely read ceramics magazine, it aims to inspire, educate, address current issues, expose readers to new points of view and help readers to feel connected to the broader ceramics community. The Journal of Australian Ceramics is published 3 times per year (1 April, 17 July and 20 November). Every issue is 160-pages of full colour.