VICTOR GREENAWAY: CERAMICS 1965 – 2005 (Limited Edition)
VICTOR GREENAWAY: CERAMICS 1965 – 2005 (Limited Edition)
Published by The Beagle Press
2005
Limited Edition Clothbound Hardcover with Sleeve and Boxed Porcelain Bowl
140 pages
110 colour plates
ISBN: 0 9743494 5 6
Numbered and signed by the artist
Two remaining: #49 & #81
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).
The limited edition of only 100 books was released alongside the hardcover book and made available through the artist. The limited edition is cloth-bound in a hard-bound sleeve, signed by the artist and includes a boxed, translucent white porcelain spiral bowl made just for this release. Only two of these limited editions remain.
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.