Porcelain and birds
An exhibition of porcelain sculptural pieces, bowls and sawdust-fired birds opens at the Courtyard Pottery on Saturday. Works are by David Brokenshire, and Tui Morse, who both had work accepted in the recent New Zealand Society of Potters’ exhibition in Christchurch, and Jean Pollard, who specialises in sawdust-fired animals, particularly birds.
To obtain the rich polished black surface the handformed birds are polished before firing in a kiln and then fired in saggar filled with sawdust Tui Morse’s specialty is very fine porcelain, wheel thrown and glazed with lustres to produce the pastel colouring. David Brokenshire has lived close to the sea all his life. It is hardly sur-
• prising that many people s feel the Influence of the ■ sea in his pots. i He has been working i full-time in clay for the . last seven years. His latest . pieces, worked in porce- ■ lain, are stained with a sparing use of glaze giving . a bronzed effect These folding undulating works could have been found at 5 the bottom of the sea. I The exhibition will be • on July 19 to 28.
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