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The Australian Ceramics Association fosters a lively, engaged ceramics community throughout Australia through The Journal of Australian Ceramics, our annual Australian Ceramics Open Studios events and TACA member exhibitions.

4FOR3 OFFER STARTS NOW! Every new membership or print subscription will receive the current journal for FREE! https://me...
17/06/2026

4FOR3 OFFER STARTS NOW! Every new membership or print subscription will receive the current journal for FREE!
https://members.australianceramics.com/membership/

This issue's theme, HEALTH & GROWTH, looks deep into how this magical material shifts our thinking, heals our bodies, and creates social connection in such a universal manner. Learn more about waste material regeneration, kiln transformation, and cultural appropriation. There's a lot!

Editor: Montessa Maack
Assistant Editor: Alison Smiles

Contributors to JAC 651 :
Yuhana Nashmi, Liane Fenwick, Samantha Mackie, Malcolm Greenwood, Tina Wheatley, Oriana Julie, Sarah Muir-Smith, Chantelle Baistow, Scott Elk, Louise Boscacci, Giuseppe Matteo Pappalardo, Jane Orme, Pam Gray, Rod Dilkes, Ian Dowling, Duro Jovicic, Kenny Pittock, Riti Malik, Gabrielle Powell, Daniel Lafferty, Sarah Christie, Robyn Phelan, Gillian Hodes, Maria Kraatz, Joanne Linsdell, Donna McDonald, pattie beerens, Wee Shiang Tay, Fiona Cuthbert O’Meara, Alexander Mamas, Gabriela Mello & Anne Kwasner

Front cover: Riti Malik, In the Open, Lumina porcelain, h.10.5cm, w.12cm; photo: Greg Piper

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The Australian Ceramics Association and Manly Art Gallery & Museum are calling for submissions to exhibit in Absence / P...
09/06/2026

The Australian Ceramics Association and Manly Art Gallery & Museum are calling for submissions to exhibit in Absence / Presence, an exhibition of selected small works to be shown at MAG&M in 2027.
https://australianceramics.com/exhibitions/absence-presence

The exhibition Absence / Presence will reflect on the theme of memory and the ways in which ceramics uniquely embody this. Clay can be a holder of memory; it carries deep geological time, and sensitively records touch and impression. Absence and trace can resonate in the material as powerfully as substance and form.

The exhibition will feature 80 small works no more than 15cm deep and wide, and no more than 30cm high. Members of The Australian Ceramics Association (TACA) are invited to respond to this theme with their ceramic work.

Absence / Presence will show alongside our major curated exhibition, Bodies of Evidence: Experimentation in Contemporary Australian Ceramics from 16 April – 30 May 2027.

Submissions close Monday 28 September 2026.

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https://australianceramics.com/membership
The Australian Ceramics Association (TACA) seeks to elevate ceramics in Australian culture, provide opportunities for members to exhibit and promote their work, resource and strengthen the field of ceramics through The Journal of Australian Ceramics, and connect the lively Australian ceramics community through news and events.

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Repost from Darkinjung NSW
01/06/2026

Repost from Darkinjung NSW

Hey early birds 🐓! Registrations for the 2026 Australian Ceramics Open Studios (ACOS) are open! This year's annual event...
31/05/2026

Hey early birds 🐓! Registrations for the 2026 Australian Ceramics Open Studios (ACOS) are open! This year's annual event is on Sat 7 & Sun 8 November, and you can open for one day or both.
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25/05/2026

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Repost Kaurna Land, SAGreat and Wondrous II, 2026 by Alfred Lowe, photo: Sam Roberts  A GREAT AND WONDROUS SIGN showin...
25/05/2026

Repost Kaurna Land, SA

Great and Wondrous II, 2026 by Alfred Lowe, photo: Sam Roberts  

A GREAT AND WONDROUS SIGN showing at until 20 June.

Congratulations to the 11 successful Bodies of Evidence artists! Chantelle Baistow NSW Pie Bolton VIC Greg Daly NSW Jack...
25/05/2026

Congratulations to the 11 successful Bodies of Evidence artists!

Chantelle Baistow NSW
Pie Bolton VIC
Greg Daly NSW
Jackie Masters WA
Beth O'Sullivan ACT .os_design
Robyn Phelan VIC with Emily Parsons-Lord VIC
Nani Puspasari VIC
Ilona Topolcsanyi VIC
Larissa Warren QLD
Mads Wainwright ACT

A record-breaking number of TACA members submitted proposals to Bodies of Evidence, creating a challenging assessment task for Guest Curator Bridie Moran.

Bridie said: “It was a delightfully difficult task to consider the 118 applications submitted from Australian ceramic practitioners exploring scientific questions. It was a highly competitive field, with a high level of artistic innovation, thoughtful experimentation, and engagement with the intersections of ceramics, science, technology, ecology, material research, and cultural enquiry. I would like to thank the many practitioners who shared their experimentation, ideas and queries for this callout so ambitiously. We look forward to seeing all these experiments continue, and to sharing exhibition outcomes in 2027 at Manly Art Gallery & Museum.”

TACA is working hard to create more exhibition opportunities for our members, with new opportunities coming soon. Keep a lookout, keep in touch, and keep going. Your work is so valuable.

Bodies of Evidence: Experimentation in Contemporary Australian Ceramics is a major exhibition by Manly Art Gallery & Museum and The Australian Ceramics Association. These large scale selective members' exhibitions are held only every 3 years. The aim is to create an opportunity for ambitious new work to be developed and showcased, expressive of the current moment in contemporary ceramics.

Repost Mumirimina land, Iutruwita TASThis new work “Extinction Series” explores a Tasmanian Thylacine motiff combining ...
25/05/2026

Repost Mumirimina land, Iutruwita TAS

This new work “Extinction Series” explores a Tasmanian Thylacine motiff combining both printmaking and ceramic techniques. It is definitely a darker exploration of new ways of pattern making and historical explorations of Tasmania.

Extinction Series
Porcelain
35 x 10 x 10cm
25 x 10 x 10cm
9 x 10 x 10cm

Dialogue: Continuum, a collaboration between .island.press and is on until 31 May

Thinking caps on potters 🎓️ ! We're collecting trivia for our July JOURNAL LAUNCH Event in Noosa, QLD. Who better to ask...
22/05/2026

Thinking caps on potters 🎓️ ! We're collecting trivia for our July JOURNAL LAUNCH Event in Noosa, QLD. Who better to ask than you? 😃

Go to https://linktr.ee/australianceramics to add your Question and Answer!

Anything ceramics-related is great! Questions with a definitive answer are preferred (we don't mind controversy, but a quick game is a good game).

If you can't make it to the event, we'll be sharing the quiz afterwards for you all to enjoy 🧨

If you can make it to the event, RSVP link and all the details are here > https://australianceramics.com/blog/2026-05-06-journal-launch-x-continuum-exhibition !

Thank You! 🤎

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