Janet Fieldhouse Ceramics

Janet fieldhouse born 1971 is a meriam mir ceramic artist based in cairns queensland australia fieldhouse uses a variety of clays and ceramic techniques to recover reinterpret and represent ailan kastom.

Janet fieldhouse ceramics.

New australian art a major survey of contemporary australian art across three institutions art gallery of new south wales agnsw museum of contemporary art mca and carriageworks. Janet fieldhouse ceramics and barapu bark paintings vivien anderson gallery 4. The cultural practices symbols and artistic traditions of her erub community particularly the significant roles and contributions of women. The bega valley regional gallery is privileged to present in concert with naidoc week an exhibition of indigenous art featuring the work of three prominent emerging contemporary practitioners.

Janet fieldhouse in artist profile issue 29 pp. Fieldhouse who is participating in her fifth award will deliver large scale sculptural forms exploring themes such as the narrative of storytelling abstract scarification the beauty of landscapes and sharing of knowledge. She initially started working with kariflex which is a kind of flexible porcelain. Janet fieldhouse torres strait islands qld.

Janet fieldhouse was a resident artist at kluge ruhe in march and april of 2017. Shepparton art museum 2009 indigenous ceramic art awards exh. These include on earth pigment canvas ceramics glass as well as compositionally experimenting with colours and surface techniques such as big brush strokes stippling and drawing over a paint wash. A large collection of janet s ceramics will be presented in the mca edition which is being co.

About janet fieldhouse janet fieldhouse currently lives in cairns and works as an art and culture teacher at the north queensland tafe. She also gave a number of artist talks at the museum and at the local ceramic studio city. Cat shepparton art museum shepparton vic stranger l. Cat shepparton art museum shepparton vic shepparton art museum 2007 indigenous ceramic art awards exh.

She studied ceramics at the cairns technical and further education college tafe before continuing her studies at the australian national university in canberra. She worked with beginning and advanced uva sculpture students in professor bill bennett s classes and led a full day ceramic workshop at piedmont virginia community college. For the national we ve brought together a series of her works over different parts of her practice. Janet fieldhouse has been selected for the national 2019.