Grant Keene
When did your artistic passion begin? I learnt to use a potter’s wheel in the early 1970s and found myself completely absorbed in the process of making pots on the wheel. After several years, my living situation changed and I no longer had the space or time to work with clay. Some 20 or so years later, I was still thinking about pottery shapes and went to TAFE in 1999 and did a ceramics diploma. Now I work in my studio at the Community Arts Centre. Describe your work. My main focus is on larger vases and platters. I am intrigued by irregularities in form and decoration and my major pieces are individual. I work with stoneware clay and make my own glazes. My style and my approach are changing all the time and currently, with my vases, I am using minimal decoration. With platters and plates, I aim for irregularity in shape and attempt to incorporate defects in the making into the fi nal product. I adopt a similar attitude in making the larger vase forms. With the larger pieces, I brush the glazes onto the pot and play with the variations in eff ect caused by variations in the thickness of the glaze. And I often use glaze-on-glaze techniques. Much of the time I experiment with the materials I use and explore the limits to how they can be used. And I also enjoy exploring and pushing the limits of my own skills. What inspires you? I am inspired by what I see around me – the colours and shapes of the natural environment and the shapes in the made environment. I get great joy from the creative process and become absorbed in developing a new piece of work. Ideas come sometimes when I am very quiet, sometimes from seeing something, sometimes from looking at a piece which has failed and been scrapped or recycled. What has been your greatest achievement? My greatest achievement is a large and very unusual platter I took out of the kiln this week. My previous fi ring was a major disaster. What would be your advice for budding artists? My advice to budding artists comes out of the knowledge that there is no objective standard by which to judge art. So, get the necessary techniques and then go your own way. There are always plenty of people ready to criticise the beginner. Don’t join them. And have fun.
ARTIST: Grant Keene
Grant Keene’s work will be featured as part of the group exhibition of tenants of NCAC at Newcastle Art Space until Sunday, September 18.
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