Anita McIntyre | Ceramic Artist

Anita McIntyre

I was immediately fascinated by the potential of this material and commenced part time studies in Ceramics in 1969-70 with Hiroe Swen as my first hand building teacher .After a brief stint in Melbourne I returned to Canberra (1974) to study Full time at the Canberra School of Art that is now ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences. At the completion of my studies I became a Part time staff member and have continued to teach at that institution to this day.

My work for some thirty years has been informed by the Australian landscape, the local Brindabella ranges, the open space of the central desert and the ancient North West Kimberley’s. These have been the subject of a continuing narrative of journey, place and memory. The platter and simple forms are the vehicles for my expression and artistic responses to the landscape both physical and spiritual.

Extensive travels in outback Australia make journey an essential part of the intellectual process, which is materialised through a combination of European techniques and local materials. Essential elements of place and time are reduced to symbolic mark making on flat wall tiles and simple boat forms that become metaphors for the journey.

Observation, memory, historical and geographical references underpin the visual narratives that reflect my personal relationship with the land while acknowledging its Indigenous ownership. Although the work contains a direct reference to specific locations and stories, the expression is abstract.



				Anita McIntyre I was immediately fascinated by the potential of this material and commenced part time studies in Ceramics in 1969-70 with Hiroe Swen as my first hand building teacher .After a brief stint in Melbourne I returned to Canberra (1974) to study Full time at the Canberra School of Art that is now ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences. At the completion of my studies I became a Part time staff member and have continued to teach at that institution to this day. My work for some thirty years has been informed by the Australian landscape, the local Brindabella ranges, the open space of the central desert and the ancient North West Kimberley’s. These have been the subject of a continuing narrative of journey, place and memory. The platter and simple forms are the vehicles for my expression and artistic responses to the landscape both physical and spiritual. Extensive travels in outback Australia make journey an essential part of the intellectual process, which is materialised through a combination of European techniques and local materials. Essential elements of place and time are reduced to symbolic mark making on flat wall tiles and simple boat forms that become metaphors for the journey. Observation, memory, historical and geographical references underpin the visual narratives that reflect my personal relationship with the land while acknowledging its Indigenous ownership. Although the work contains a direct reference to specific locations and stories, the expression is abstract. Anita McIntyre









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