By Jeana Blackert
Handbuilt vase, white raku clay, artist made mid fire glazes
14x10.5cm
$110
ARTIST STATEMENT
“A poetic image can be the seed of a world, the seed of a universe imagined out of a poet’s reverie.” Gaston Bachelard
"'Reverie' explores the idea of poetic daydreaming as a generative space of creation. The ceramic works were imagined and hand built with clay as joyful meditations. Using pinched coils and slabs, the gestures of making formed textured surfaces for the glazes to gather, form rivulets, and pool in crevices and impressions left by my fingertips. Through contemplation and repetition, the process of making became a dialogue between my inner landscape and the physical world, between fleeting thoughts and lasting form."
BIO
Jeana Blackert is a multidisciplinary artist who lives in Geelong, Victoria. Primarily working with clay, her ceramic practice is informed by her background in textiles, photography and installation. Her ceramic works build on her ongoing material explorations of form through texture and repetition.
Influenced by the Arte Povera movement, Blackert’s artwork often responds to the materiality of a site. Her practice speculates on a reciprocal exchange between architectural and organic forms, perception and imagination. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the ANU, a Diploma of Textile Arts from Box Hill Institute of TAFE and a Graduate Diploma of Creative Arts from Deakin University.