July 2025 Issue - volume 64 No.2
FOCUS: COMMUNITY & FUTURE
FOR YOUR PLEASURE
THOSE WHO CAN, DO
GLENN COOKE
COOMADITCHIE
NATIONAL EDUCATION PICTORIAL SURVEY
THE JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN CERAMICS
From the Editors Montessa Maack & Jane Orme: It has been surprisingly heartening to spend the last few months talking with so many people about education, community, and the future. It seems we are all busy thinking about these things – and busy doing – with care and hard work. This is particularly so in education.
As a global community, we are facing hard times, and creating can feel fraught with tension. Yet, it is so important that we continue to tell the stories. Community is a word that is easy to throw around, and add to it the concept of future, and you have something that feels expansive but slippery. But we may be seeing community, the future, and education in new and positive ways. We felt a shift in the pages of this Journal, and how the issue came together.
A section of this issue of the Journal is also devoted to the coming Triennale in Walyalup (Fremantle) in October 2025. The Triennale is a hefty and meaningful labour of love (and dogged perseverance); it provides us with a significant chance to build our community and reflect on practice.
Featured in JAC 642: Jess Lyons, Anne Sherman, Driving Creek Pottery, Johanna Park, Glenn Cooke, Dee Taylor-Graham, Kerameikos: The Potters’ Quarter, Harvey School, Good Clay, Kim Lyons Pottery, Claire Blake, Ray Cavill, Jennifer Hillhouse, Melissa Murphy-Vella, Robyn Phelan, Caroline North, Angela Reiher, Arun Sharma, vale Kunmanara (Rupert) Jack & vale Willi Michalski
Triennale contributions in JAC 642: Bernard Kerr, Matt Russell, Jude Van Der Merwe, Carola Akindele-Obe, Anjani Khanna, Falguni Bhatt, Janet DeBoos, Sakshi Agarwal, Peter Anderson, Sandra Black, Linda Bloomfield, Beth Cavener, Srinia Chowdhury, Ian Clare, Cate Cosi, Greg Crowe, Minna Graham, Grace Han, Graham Hay, Emma Jimson, Shraddha Joshi, Ruth Ju-Shih Li, Jann Kesby, Bela Kotai, Robyn Lees, Amelia Lynch, Jane Jermyn, Steven Low Thia Kwang, Jacqui Sosnowski, Warrick Palmateer, Robyn Phelan, Fleur Schell, Fergus Stewart, Mary Wallace, Patty Wouters & Adil Writer
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The Journal of Australian Ceramics (JAC), Australia’s most widely read tri-annual contemporary ceramics magazine, is a valuable resource for professional and amateur ceramicists, students, galleries, arts administrators, curators, buyers and passionate collectors. Published three times per year, it contains artist profiles, commentary and critical essays, exhibition and book reviews, information on tertiary ceramic education, workshop reports, technical advice, suppliers, new products, exhibition and gallery listings.