VICTOR GREENAWAY: CERAMICS 1965 – 2005 (Hardcover, Colour Dust Jacket)
VICTOR GREENAWAY: CERAMICS 1965 – 2005 (Hardcover, Colour Dust Jacket)
Published by The Beagle Press
2005
Hardcover
140 pages
110 colour plates
ISBN: 0 9743494 5 6
Signed by the artist
Victor Greenaway is one of Australia’s most respected figures in the ceramic art world and this book encompasses the past 40 years of the artists’ work, revealing the strengths, diversity and refinement that he seeks.
Comprising 140 pages including 110 colour plates, biographical notes and bibliography. With an introduction by Tim Jacobs (Chief Executive of the Victorian Arts Centre in Melbourne) and foreword by Janet Mansfield (eminent ceramic artist and publisher/editor of the journals, Ceramics: Art and Perception and Ceramics TECHNICAL).
Book excerpt: Foreword
by Janet Mansfield
… In the history of contemporary Australian ceramics, as most of us who have been practising the art have known it over the past 40 years or so, Victor Greenaway has always been there. His work appeared in the earliest exhibitions, in the first books and journals, and his style was recognisably his: the clay body and glazes fitted perfectly, the brushwork was elegant, the forms sure.
The style of Greenaway’s ceramics has developed subtly over the years; there have been no rash leaps, the influences on him have been slowly absorbed until the ideas became his own. Yet when we look at this development, portrayed so elegantly in this book, we find numerous explorations: into woodfiring; Italian influenced bucchero wares; dry-glazed stonewares; and lately, in what seems to be the mose satisfying genre and one that suits his personality, fine and refined porcelain.