Love Bird | gaffa gallery | 2020
'The Goliaths (Palm Cockatoos with white flowering gum)' 2019, stoneware with underglaze and glaze 41 x 8 cm
'The Australian Kings (Australian King Parrots with pink lilly pilly)' 2019, stoneware with underglaze and glaze 36.5 x 11 cm
'Rosellas of Penant (Crimson Rosellas with golden wreath wattle)' 2019, stoneware with underglaze and glaze 28 x 8.5 cm
'Sulphur Crested Cockies (with tree waratah)' 2019, stoneware with underglaze and glaze 29.5 x 8 cm
'Black Cockatoo Dipped in Yellow (Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo with banksia spinulosa) 2019, stoneware with underglaze and glaze 32.5 x 8 cm'
'The Queen Regent of Australia (Regent Parrots with red capped gum)' 2019 stoneware with underglaze and glaze 22 x 10 x 8cm
'The Baudini (Glossy Black Cockatoo with banksia spinulosa collina)', 2019, stoneware with underglaze 23 x 9 x 8 cm
'For Galah’s Sake (Galahs with pink eucalypt)' 2019, stoneware with underglaze and glaze 14.5 x 7 cm
'Elegantly in search for love (Elegant Parrots with yellow wattle)' 2019, porcelain with underglaze and glaze 13 x 8 x 8 cm
'Galah Kisses (with eucalypt macracarpa)' 2019, porcelain with underglaze and glaze 13.5 x 8 x 7 cm
'Mitchells Majorly in love (Major Mitchell Cockatoos with acacia)' 2019, porcelain with underglaze and glaze 12 x 8 x 8 cm
'Somewhere over the rainbow lorikeets fall in love (Rainbow Lorikeets with pink bottle brush tree)' 2019, porcelain with underglaze and glaze 14 x 7.5 x 7 cm
'Little Corella Lovers (with silver dollar gum)' 2019 , porcelain with underglaze and glaze 15 x 8 x 7 cm
'Budgie Beaus (with eucalypt)' 2019, porcelain with underglaze and glaze 14 x 7.5 x 7 cm
'The Princess (Princess parrots with white gum eucalypt)' 2019, stoneware with underglaze 17 x 7.5 x 7cm
'The Gang (Gang Gang parrots with silver dollar gum)' 2019, stoneware with underglaze 18.5 x 8 x 7cm
'The Western Rose (the Western Rosella with white flowering gum)', 2019, stoneware with underglaze 17 x 8.5 x 7.5 cm
'Red banksii (Red-tailed Black Cockatoos with red bud mallee)' 2019, stoneware with underglaze and glaze 20 x 9 cm
'Ring around Australia’s neck (Australian Ringnecks with red coral tree)' 2019, stoneware with underglaze and glaze 16.5 x 11 cm
'The Eclecetic ones (Eclectus Parrots with coral berries)', 2019, stoneware with underglaze and glaze 15 x 10 cm
gaffa gallery, Sydney, Australia
Love Bird
9-20 January 2020
Love Bird is inspired by the surrounding Australian indigenous avifauna and flora, portraying a celebration of love and adoration for these vivid Australian icons. Depicted in their equally colourful natural environment, each individual vessel of Love Bird combines ceramics and detailed hand paintings, romanticising the representation of Australian birds. Being entirely immersed deep within the Australian bush the past year, further inspiration has been drawn from the natural landscapes and way-of-life found among the most special parts of central Australia where Little Corellas frequently sprinkle like white snowflakes in the Ghost Gums flanking Ernabella, and flocks of galahs congregate quietly on the ground until disrupted into the chorus of Australia.