Upcoming events.
Creative Voyage- Maleny -Noosa
Welcome to Creative Voyage Maleny. This voyage is so close to my heart as we begin in the beautiful, magical, town of Maleny and the creative community that I call home. The oasis of the Tamarind Retreat will be our base for 5 days exploring the creative life, food and landscape of the Blackall Range
"Wrack" Opening night with music and projection and artist talk
Premiere of a new body of porcelain and drawings in Maleny.
In March I traveled to Tasmania (Lutrwita) to the Tessellated Pavement an ancient rock shelf, jutting out to sea, criss-crossed with crevasses and geological scars, colonised by crabs, sea anemones. The pans and loaves rock formations create a "wrack-zone" where treasures rich and strange accumulate deposited and taken by the waves.
Come and see this new porcelain and drawing inspired by the wrack-zone in an immersive experience with improvised music by Louise King and projection by Daphne Hart. Dr Alexandra Lawson from USQ will complete the evening with an artist’s interview.
Event includes light supper.
"Wrack" premiere of a new body of work in Maleny
Celebrate the launch of of my new body of work-”Wrack”
I have never had the opportunity to show a major body of exhibition work in Maleny, this project enables local audiences to see this work first. The work will go on to be exhibited in other galleries around Australia. Some of this work will go to Beaver Galleries in Canberra in February 2024.
“Wrack” is inspitered by a trip I took in March to Tasmania (Lutruwita) to the Tessellated Pavement an ancient rock shelf, jutting out to sea criss-crossed with crevasses and geological scars, colonised by crabs, sea anemones. The pans and loaves rock formations create a "wrack-zone" where treasures rich and strange accumulate deposited and and taken by the waves.
Splendid Surfaces- One Day Workshop
Come to Maleny and explore the world of ceramic colour and drawing without using glazes! With a painterly approach, learn to work in an intuitive, expressive way to get layered, sophisticated surfaces, using a mix of underglazes, oxides and glaze stains taking your work to the next level.
Plant Empire Market
Come along to one of Brisbane’s hidden treasures, art, handmade goods, food trucks and live music. I’ll be there with fresh porcelain, made in Maleny.
Terra Nova- 70 Years of Sturt Pottery
I have a collection of moon vases in this amazing exhibtion
Terra Nova
70 years of breaking ground at Sturt Pottery
Australia’s pioneering pottery celebrates 70 years and the potters who’ve indelibly left their mark. Les Blakebrough, Simon Bowley, Greg Daly, Paul Davis, Janet DeBoos, Simone Fraser, Shannon Garson, Victor Greenaway, Malcolm Greenwood, Steve Harrison, Fiona Hiscock, Kazuya Ishida, Ian Jones, Jann Kesby, Sandy Lockwood, Holly Macdonald, Susie McMeekin, Jeff Mincham, Anne Mossman, Megan Patey, Owen Rye, Fleur Schell, Mitsuo Shoji, Hiroe Swen, Toni Warburton, Steve Williams, Rachel Wood, Ernabella Artists.
Sumptous Surfaces Workshop
Two day workshop in Brisbane exploring the world of ceramic colour and drawing without using glazes. With a painterly approach, learn to work in an intuitive, expressive way to achieve layered, sophisticated surfaces, using a mix of underglazes, oxides and glaze stains taking your work to the next level.
Creative Feast- at The Bowmont
Join stylist, photographer and writer Michelle Crawford and artists Shannon Garson and Nanna Bayer at The Bowmont in Franklin for one glorious day of creativity.
SHANNON GARSON: VESSELS AND BIRD STORIES
Vessels and Bird Stories is an exhibition about making something from nothing, the process of creating in the studio from a lump of clay to a fine porcelain vessel covered in drawings.
Shannon Garson- Mas & Mieke Ceramic House
Join me for my first solo exhibition in Brisbane for over a decade.
Over the past twenty years I have been exploring thrown, porcelain vessels decorated with intricate drawings. I juxtapose classic, clean porcelain vessels with the infinite variety of striations, spots, and marks found in nature. Marginal eco-systems have led me through wallum swampland, over sea cliffs and underwater to make work about the tidal zone, endangered paperbark habitat and rare native flora and fauna. The bowls, jugs, teapots and cups, shapes that we are all so familiar with, provide a window that leads the viewer into the drawing and over and under all the surfaces of the form. I think these shapes encourage the idea of touching the artwork, getting closer, examining the tiny, hidden details, this is a metaphor for what happens when you are bush walking, or beachcombing.
Opens Saturday July 16- 4.30pm- 6.30 pm
Ends July 31
Sturt Winter School- 5 day course
Learn to throw fine porcelain and explore the world of ceramic colour, drawing and pattern without using glazes! This is a workshop for all artists from ceramicists to painters and sculptors and is designed to be an adventure. Throughout the workshop you will flow between looking at form, throwing, and handbuilding, working on the technical aspects of creating with clay and exploring mark making, drawing, patterns, and colours. Work in an intuitive, expressive way making fine ceramic vessels or dynamic ceramic sculptures, getting layered, sophisticated surfaces and balancing form and drawing. Techniques include colour mixing, shellac resist, sgraffito and mishima. Head home with 4 finished pieces bisque and glaze fired.
SIXTY The Journal of Australian Ceramics 60th Anniversary 1962-2022
SIXTY: The Journal of Australian Ceramics 60th Anniversary 1962–2022 is a special ADC On Tour exhibition project presented in partnership with The Australian Ceramics Association to acknowledge this significant anniversary. The exhibition will tour to 17 art centres across Australia from 2022 to 2026.
We Are Stardust
From the first moments of the universe forming from protons and electrons, helium and hydrogen and collapsing, and colliding and forming new elements we have been connected to the stars. The material that I make vessels from came from the same ineffable explosion as the material we are made of. The clay vessels we are so familiar with are ritual objects that connect us to the universe.
The forms are simple, pared back teacups, teapots, and moon vases that refer to Japanese and Scandinavian design. Drawings move across the pots, containing mythological animals, astrophysical equations and chemical symbols, leaves, flowers and abstract marks. They explore the way we are all linked, animate and inanimate, human to ancient elements. The beginning of the universe in a teacup.
Creative Voyage - 5 days 6 nights- Byron Bay
Embrace your curiosity and join award winning ceramic artist Shannon Garson on a 5 day creative discovery of Byron Bay and the Northern Rivers Region.
Shannon has hand-picked a selection of intimate experiences to inspire and delight all our senses. We are invited behind the scenes to visit artist's workshops and studios. We will enjoy long lunches, after exploring the studios, sample local food and wine and soak in the breathtaking landscape of the Northern Rivers Region of NSW. Slow breakfasts, bespoke tableware, magnificent wild seas and intimate gatherings sharing local food with artists, designers, farmers, chefs and fellow creative voyagers. Stimulating, Imaginative and Inspiring.
The beautiful Villa Rustica where we will spend the day making art, and feasting!
Price per person
$2725 per head- twin share, Botanica Villa
$3075 per head- Sharing two bedroom Superior Villa (private bathrooms)
$3700 single occupancy, Botanica Villa
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