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Volume 47#2, July 2008 $16.00
Front Cover
Poppy Benton . Poles 73, 2008 stoneware. thrown and altered
1300° C, h.47 - 93cm Photographer: Rob Little
Back Cover
Poppy Benton. Pharmaceutical/ (detail), 2008 ; Carbon Pot. (detail). 2008
Photographer: Rob Little
The Journal of Austra l ian Ceramics
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2 EDITORIAL
3 NOW AND THEN
4 AWARDS and GALLERY
TRIBUTE 8 Lex Di ckson @
Jeff Doy/e
REVIEW 13 Engaging Contemporary
Art Audiences Jo Ely 18 Reconfiguring th e
'Life Forms' lnga Walton
CERAMICS EDUCATION 20 A State of Flu x @
Damon Moon 24 The Changing Face of
Ceramics Education Janet DeBoos 29 Local Knowledge. Time
and Mentoring Meredith Hinchliffe 34 Clay in the Classroom
Lynne Ambler and Gemma C!ipsham
NATIONAL EDUCATION 37 List of Educational
Institutions 38 Pictorial Survey
PROMOTION 66 New Gallery in Oberon!
TECHNICAL: TEAPOTS 70 On the Roundness
of Things @ Phi/ Elson 75 Incomplete Musings
Anne-Maria Plevier 78 Letting off Steam!
Ji/1 Anderson 81 Making Teapots 82 Teapot Gallery
INSIDE MY STUDIO 84 In Conversation with
Zak Chalmers Vicki Grima and Zak Chalmers
COMMUNITY 88 Supporting Australian Craft
Susannah Hardy
WORKSHOP 91 A Rural Residency and
Kiln-Building Workshop Stefan Jakob
EVENTS 94 Sturt Woodfire 08
Barbara Campbe/1-A//en 97 Sustainable Wood-Firing
Gary Hill 98 Green is the New Bla ck
Ray Cavil/ 100 Sturt Woodfire 08 Snapshots
AUSTRALIA WIDE 1 02 State Representati ves Report
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Simone Braund. Three Spiral Beakers (detai l) . 2007. porcelai n. sla b-bui lt. gas redu ction. ash and celadon glazes. h. 10cm. w. 25cm. d .1 Ocm ; photo: Terence Bogue
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