It’s a zeitgeisty thing. I feel the need to reflect on how our public and private languages interact.

There’s our outside public languages – the signs, messages, media, cliches and drivel that swamp our daily lives. In contrast there’s our interior, often pre-verbal conversations – our wonderings, uncertain musings, daydreaming and occasional insights waiting to surface in everyday reality and providing a tiny pop of amused recognition. Between these two zones of language lies all of life.

The obscure Australian philosopher Wayne Sartre knew all about these matters and the interaction between these two worlds. We have gone to the trouble to rescue a few of his insights from the remote interior of our land and provide them for your pleasure.

Everything about the journey of an idea to its materialisation I find hugely attractive. The process is all encompassing and for me a wonderful space to enter. The engine driving the idea and the process is the hope that something new and fabulous will be uncovered. This goal may be unreachable, nevertheless one gets glimpses and is compelled to repeat the whole process over and over again.

Earth, Air, Fire and Water

These four essential elements are critical for both the creation of a simple clay pot, and the miracle of our Earth, transformed into a living, breathing, life sustaining planet.

 “Inexplicable Yearning” in the context of this exhibition, could apply to the artists obsessive preoccupation for their art.

But on a grander scale, I think of the persistence of a tenacious life force that lies at the very core of our existence.

Over Earth’s turbulent history, against all odds, life has repeatedly taken hold.

The first living thing growing from such meagre beginnings as bacteria in a muddy puddle. Not unlike the black mould flourishing in my slurry bucket of clay and water, waiting to be reclaimed and realised into something of beauty.

So, from out of this clay, a new collection of pots has evolved with a prehistoric past in mind.

An array of vessel shapes have been carved and painted in decorative patterns imagined from early life forms of corals and plants.