Victoria Arthur's Profile
Technically speaking, I find clay to be as much a guide as a medium. I use Cooloola clays whenever possible, and experiment with found oxides and ochres.
Many of my pieces have been smokefired, adapting one of the most ancient ceramic techniques to large forms, and combining it with more contemporary surface treatments.
In all cases the desire is to highlight the clay, rather than to disguise it. I am able to bring a dramatic quality out of the clay into my handbuilt forms.
Most of my work grows from my fascination with the processes and pressures of natural selection, both historical and current, also from the simple thought; that there is more than one layer to most things - objects, organisms, systems.
What's happening on the surface is rarely the same as what's going on at a deeper level. One layer depends on another, or supports another, or indicates the history and the construction of the surface we see.
There's always more than meets the eye, there's always more than one way of looking at things.
Therefore I make things to look at.
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