Online Exhibition

  Mary Wallace, a West Australian, has been a potter for more than 40 years. While completing a Diploma in Advanced Ceramics from Perth Technical College, she trained and later worked as a tableware maker with Ian MacRae of Beaufort Pottery. After setting up her own studio in Perth, she returned to teach at her old college and at ECU in Perth. In 1993 she established her new studio, Spiral Studio, near the town of Denmark on the south coast of Western Australia and for a number of years taught at Tafe colleges in the Great Southern.

While tableware is still a mainstay of her practice, her love is carving porcelain and that is the focus of the work shown here. She likes to use the local flora as inspiration with her favourites being the Kangaroo Paw and Eucalyptus Caesia (the Silver Princess). This style of carving has developed from time spent training with master carver, Jeon Seong-Keun in South Korea. She has taken part in a number of major South Korean Ceramic Festivals, forging close ties with many local potters and spending time there is still a part of her life when possible."
 

Mary Wallace, Spiral Studio, Kentdale, Western Australia. www.spiralstudio.com.au