Janet Fieldhouse Ceramics

Janet fieldhouse in artist profile issue 29 pp.

Janet fieldhouse ceramics.

Janet fieldhouse ceramics and barapu bark paintings vivien anderson gallery 4. 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. 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. 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.

A large collection of janet s ceramics will be presented in the mca edition which is being co. The cultural practices symbols and artistic traditions of her erub community particularly the significant roles and contributions of women. Janet fieldhouse torres strait islands qld. Janet fieldhouse has been selected for the national 2019.

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. Michael brogan janet fieldhouse and tevita havea. She has participated in twenty seven group. She also gave a number of artist talks at the museum and at the local ceramic studio city.

She studied ceramics at the cairns technical and further education college tafe before continuing her studies at the australian national university in canberra. Janet fieldhouse is a torres islander artist who has had a practice working with ceramics and various kinds of ceramics for a number of years. 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. About janet fieldhouse janet fieldhouse currently lives in cairns and works as an art and culture teacher at the north queensland tafe.

Shepparton art museum 2009 indigenous ceramic art awards exh. 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. Cat shepparton art museum shepparton vic shepparton art museum 2007 indigenous ceramic art awards exh.