Thursday, October 12, 2023

Artist of the Day, October 12, 2023: Pippin Drysdale, an Australian ceramic artist (#1929)

 Pippin Drysdale (1943) is an Australian ceramic artist and art teacher. She is regarded as the foremost interpreter of the Australian landscape in the field of ceramics. Her works are known for their intensity of color and linear markings that interpret the artist's relationship with the Australian landscape. She was recognized as one of Western Australia’s State Living Treasures in 2015. She is Australia's highest earning ceramicist.

An acclaimed International Artist and Master of Australian Craft, Pippin Drysdale's career as a ceramic artist spans 30 years. Her passion for the craft merges with a love of the landscape, which has travelled across continents and in most recent years has focussed on the vivid desert landscapes of Australia. Her works evoke a timeless and breathtaking sense of space and place within finely crafted porcelain vessels, narrating the mesmorizing vastness of color experienced in the unique Australian landscape.

Working from her studio in Fremantle, surrounded by the catalogue of her trials and experiments – racks of wonderful pots of all colors and sizes that failed her almost impossible test of quality – Pippin Drysdale continues to interrogate her practice from the perspective of an artist without borders. The Falstaffian spirit that imbues her every action is pitched always at maximum intensity, from her explosive laugh - that fills not only rooms but auditoria - to her extravagant generosity and, of course, to her total commitment to her work.

The process of analysis, review and revision continues until she is convinced she has captured the character of each new series of work.  The landscape is the ever-constant lure, the catalyst for work, the connecting point and anchor for each new development.  Her works is ambitious. It negotiates interweaving journeys through various landscapes describing her artistic practice and her engagement with the sites she documents. Through a continuing investigation of the flora and landforms of these unique areas of Australia and a commitment to engaging with the cultural, social and political agendas that are shaping them, she is open to embrace each new creative challenge.

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Ms.  Pippin Drysdale
Pippin and her work
Confluence
Confluence
Yellow Tinted Honeyeater
Wild Fruits Collection
Water Lilies
Slendour at Black Rock
Red Dragonfly
Prospectors Delight
Princess Parrot
Orca Pod Collection
Opthalmia Ranges
Melaleuca Falls Collection
Long Tailed Finch
Fossil Downs Evensong
Flowering Time Collection
Echidna Chasm Collection
Dragonfly Dancing
Evensong
2016 Red Earth
Crimson Finch II
Crimson Chat
Chatsworth Collection
Breakaway
Breakaway Series II: Weebills
Breakaway Series II: Sacred Kingfisher
Breakaway Series II: Gouldians Finches
Breakaway Series II
Branded Honey Eaters
Blue Wren
BKA Series II, 2021 Ochre Country

 

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