Julie Shaw

Julie’s training as a potter started in Adelaide as a part-time student at the South Australia School of Art, where Ben Kypridakis ran the pottery school.  On moving to Melbourne, she worked at the Carlton Arts Centre and the workshops ran by the Victorian Ceramics Group continued her education.

Julie currently works at Barwon Heads looking out onto ti-tree, listening to the surf and walking on the beach each day.

Her first love with pottery has been the making of pots that can be used in everyday life, particularly the making and assembling of teapots.  Lately she has been making larger objects.   A fish never to swim, a teapot never to be used and, inspired by the ‘Artists in the Gardens’ exhibition at Geelong Botanical Gardens, she made a ‘Vacated Chair’ – not for sitting.

Julie’s pots are mid-fired terra cotta clay.  Under oxidation it has the warmth of a reduction firing.  The main glaze is copper-based but she loves to experiment with others and she also likes to show the mark of the hand that made the pot.

Awards include 1996 House Gallery for Tableware, 1998 Austceram, 2005 Functional Teapot – Bendigo, and 2006 Innercity Clay Workers ‘Design-a-billy-tea’.

Julie has exhibited in many group exhibitions.  Three highlights were ‘Future Function’ – Manly Art Gallery; ‘Impressed’ – New Delhi; and ‘Alchemy in Clay’ – Kazari Gallery

Jug
Ceramics
$120
Ref: JS001

Barefoot Tea Set
Ceramics
$150
Ref: JS002