eCite Digital Repository
Les Blakebrough: Ceramics
Citation
Holmes, JH, Les Blakebrough: Ceramics, Craftsman House and Object: Australian Centre for Craft and Design, Fishermans Bend, Victoria, pp. 144. ISBN 0975730398 (2005) [Authored Research Book]
Copyright Statement
© Copyright 2005 : Text: Jonathan Holmes. Illustrations: Les Blakebrough
Abstract
In a career spanning five decades, Les Blakebrough has become one of
Australia's most acclaimed and influential ceramic artists. His body of
work has ranged from earthy functional wares to more recent, delicate
forms. The ethereal beauty of these later works emphasises the
translucency and fragility of the Southern Ice Porcelain he trademarked
and spent more than five years developing. His passionate research and
development of the techniques and materials of ceramics have led him
on journeys of discovery from studying with master potters in Japan in
the 1960s to working with leading manufacturers of industrial ceramics
in Scandinavia in the 1990s.
Blakebrough has made an extraordinary contribution to visual art, craft
and design in Australia as a practitioner, teacher, mentor and visionary
advocate. He has been Director of the Sturt Pottery and Sturt Workshops,
a founding member of the Crafts Board of the Australia Council, Head
of Ceramics at the Tasmanian School of Art and a Principle Research
Fellow at the University of Tasmania. He has been awarded numerous
awards and commissions and his works are held in all major public
collections in Australia and in many others around the world.
Item Details
Item Type: | Authored Research Book |
---|---|
Research Division: | Creative Arts and Writing |
Research Group: | Visual arts |
Research Field: | Crafts |
Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
Objective Group: | Arts |
Objective Field: | The creative arts |
UTAS Author: | Holmes, JH (Professor Jonathan Holmes) |
ID Code: | 36581 |
Year Published: | 2005 |
Deposited By: | Art (Hobart) |
Deposited On: | 2005-08-01 |
Last Modified: | 2012-03-08 |
Downloads: | 2 View Download Statistics |
Repository Staff Only: item control page