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Meander

Peter Osborn

Unfortunately we have had to close our Main Gallery for health and safety reasons as a COVID19 precaution. You can view all the works in Peter's exhibition below.

Introduction

70% of the world’s population live in an urban environment. Each day everywhere people rush from one place to another and back again in robotic motion staring at their phones and listening to manufactured music, switched off from the world around them. To meander is to take time to connect with nature and experience the time passing, the harshness and beauty of the physical and the spiritual world. It is to appreciate that each moment is a destination that arrives and passes. This exhibition is about this connection we make when we wander and are present in the moment, happily mindful of place. It is finding small detail, colour, form and atmosphere that allows our minds to open and unravel.

Peter has collected soils from the inland and wood ash to mix with pigments and clay to create a series of works, both ceramic and painting. The works seek to reflect the ephemeral passing of time, the roughness created by the elements contrasted with the stillness and peace inherent in the natural world.

Several journeys have contributed to this work. The first journey was from Warwick to Broken Hill following the Darling River from Bourke to Wilcannia and visiting the Gundabooka National Park. The red soil of Gundabooka features in the ceramic works and paintings. Here Peter made drawings, collected samples of soil and viewed the vibrant indigenous rock art. The second journey was to Japan where he visited the Ceramic Museum at Mashiko and viewed a current exhibition of ceramic art. The simple beauty of the forms enhanced by the ancient traditions of Japan made a deep impression. This experience provided impetus to find his own expression of nature through Australian ceramics. This exhibition is an increment of that exploration and creativity.

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Image	Title and Medium	Size	Price
	Across the Red Country Clay slip, wood ash, pastel and water colour on watercolour paper with paper collage	Framed 885mm W x 680mm H	$450
	Burnt Chocolate brown stoneware clay	200mm W x 180mm H x 150mm W	$120
	Departure Gouache, wood ash on stretched linen	760mm W x 610mm H	$360
	Descent Chocolate brown stoneware	490mm W x 285mm H x 90mm D	$180
	Five Stages of Grief Clay slip, red earth, wood ash, pastel on stretched linen	5 canvases, each 610mm W x 760mm H	$1850
	Flow Red raku, white raku and chocolate brown clay mid fired	3 pieces, each 80-100mm W x 60mm H x 280-320mm D	$120
	Fold Mid fired red raku, chocolate brown, white raku clays on board	524mm W x 355mm H	$360
	Gundabooka 1 Mid fired red raku clay with red soil engobe		NFS
	Gundabooka 2 Mid fired red raku clay with red soil engobe		NFS
	Gundabooka 3 Mid fired red raku clay with red soil engobe		NFS
	Ledge Chocolate brown stoneware with slip	270mm W x 160mm H x 100mm D	$120
	Meander Clay slips, ash and gouache on stretched linen	3 canvases, each 610mm W x 760mm H	$960
	Nest Mid fired grey speckled clay with glaze	250mm W x 190mm H x 200mm D	$120
	Passage Clay slip, wood ash, pastel and watercolour on watercolour paper with paper collage	Framed size 880mm W x 660mm H	$450
	Recline Mid fired red raku and chaoclate brown clay.	300mm W x 200mm H x 50mm D	$120
	Sandy Raku Sandy buff raku clay stoneware		NFS
	Straight Ahead Gouache, wood ash, clay from location on stretched linen	610mm W x 760mm H	$360
	Terrain Mid fired red raku clay with red soil engobe and Klienton clay slip	180mm W x 145mm H x 70mm D	$180
	The Darling Gouache, wood ash, clay from location on stretched linen	610mm W x 760mm H	$360
	Traverse Clay slip, wood ash, pastel and watercolour on watercour paper with paper collage	Framed size 885mm W x 680mm H	$450
	Uncoil Mid fired red raku and chocolate brown clay	400mm W x 220mm H x 40mm D	$120