Artwork: Large China Pot 2015
Artist: Janet DeBoos
Medium: Chinese ‘big pot’ clay, underglaze stains, slips, sgraffito, clear glaze made in Jingdezhen China and Australia
Dimensions: 37.5 x 35.5cm
Acquisition: An acquisition of the ACT Legislative Assembly Art Advisory Committee, 2015
Asset no: OLA002158
About the Work
The cross-cultural images, and the range of techniques reflect Janet DeBoos’ professional engagement with potteries in China and with Indigenous potters in Australia. She uses iconic imagery from the high point of Chinese porcelain decoration (Qing overglaze), colour and line from the desert and bush of Australia (Ernabella terra sigillata, Australian flora) and that most ancient of techniques from the ceramics lexicon (sgraffito or ‘scratching’) to create what she calls ‘a hybrid pottery that is both contemporary and timeless, culturally specific and yet borderless.’