I have now been back in Australia for nearly 2 weeks. Finally, it seems my consciousness has reconected with my body and I am enjoying being back, working in the tin shed at Tallarook.

The last… Continue reading →

I have spent the last week with the Galwani Family. They are a 7th generation potting family living in Kumbhar Wada ( potters colony), Dharavi, Mumbai. This colony was established in 1932 with potters from Gujarat escaping… Continue reading →

The plan was to utilise traditional pottery techniques used  to create forms that we and others would decorate to create a series of related forms that would be threaded onto a vertical steel rod. Ann and I along with… Continue reading →

Stacks in Balance. A Crosshatched  project commissioned by  the Australia –India Councils  the celebrate its 20^th Anniversary  and to be included in the Exhibition KINDNESS/UDARTA  at The Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre,… Continue reading →

Early last week Mantu, Pradyumna, Pushpa, Ann and I met to work on pots made by Bhuvnesh at his workshop at Chanyka Place. We comforably moved into working mode enjoying working on the beautiful forms made by… Continue reading →

Recently sitting at Manahar Lal ( ML)  drinking chai, the home compound was visited by a familiar face. It was a man I had photographed extensively, with his family, working in extremely simple circumstances in 2002. He… Continue reading →

27.2.2012 I have now been in India 3 weeks. Ann Ferguson arrived last week and so we are about to start Stacks 2( working title). The plan was to begin this morning but a slight hitch so it is now… Continue reading →

In a few days I will be returning to India. I have 3 months to explore Kumhaargram ( the village where Manohar Lal and Dharmveer live on the outskirts of Delhi) I intend to work with the potters  and… Continue reading →