Tony Nankervis
- Tony Nankervis
- The back to the earth, self sufficiency movement of the 1970's brought about the growth of a significant group of potters on the NSW North Coast. Potters such as Tony Nankervis, Kerry Selwood, Denis and Malina Monks and others are still active and many more woodfirers now work in that region. While the early incentive to woodfiring was low cost the woodfirers now do so for the qualities it produces.
- Tony Nankervis fires a John Neely inspired train kiln, also an anagama. He attempts to make a connection between landscape and the character of surface on his work; not as a direct transfer but as an attempt to create a self contained micro environment which mirrors the process of its own construction. This sometimes involves multiple firings and post firing treatment. "Although others may enjoy the visual and tactile qualities my motivation is to make this work for myself and my colleagues, who appreciate the complex language and get off twice as hard. Forms are as simple as possible to allow the fire to do the decorating. Dry white and orange seem to me to be the real colours of Australia.
- Woodfiring in Australia by Owen Rye
First published in Different Stokes, Proceedings of the International Woodfire Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City USA, 1999.
Click images for large view.
|
|
|
|
|
