Part 2 ‘Linda Making’- recorded in Linda’s studio mainly working on the electric pottery wheel. The summer insects form a backdrop to the kneading of clay with rhythmic breath. Handling the clay before centering using her body with the mechanics of the wheel to form the clay into a circular vessel. Running her fingers around the rim and over the bisk fired chawan.
Linda Chambers & Collyn Gawned: 100 Chawan
10 April – 8 May 2025 | Vancouver Arts Centre
100 Chawan (tea bowls) is a collaborative installation reflecting the studio based practices and common interests of Albany ceramic artists Linda Chambers and Collyn Gawned.
With reference to historic and cultural use, the tea bowl became their inspiration for individual exploration into form, surface decoration and functionality.
They have worked the elements of earth and water, firing in gas, electric and wood-fired kilns, to create unique and considered pieces for this exhibition, complimented by an original soundscape meditation compiled by Albany sound designer, Nat Rad.
Dates: 10 April – 8 May 2025
Days: Monday- Friday
Time: 10am – 4pm
Location: Vancouver Arts Centre, 85 Vancouver St, Albany
Translating from a video still, these works represent the complexity of layering sensations into one space. The images below begin with the still and documents the layering of paint to the final work
“Video of back fence in a cold morning as sun intensifies. Steam emanating from the fibre board fence.
Using filters to section the video into a dreamlike state until the final frame in golden glow. Sound is the water pouring between tea-cups, tapping on tea cup and glacial waters of Lake St Claire, Tasmania.”
More Voidscape works in progress.
Transparency of image interaction.
After making a short film with soundscape earlier in the year, I am now looking to translate a couple stills into paintings. Documentation of process.
I feel a process is emerging.
The first small study concentrated on blocking in areas with charcole in a loose way, underpainting in complementaries then final layer with body added to the paint.
To translate a work into a larger format, I found the muscle memory of the composition stronger.
“This work is taken from 2023, a day painting at Katrine, outside Toodyay, WA. Behind the farm stay a hill of golden wheat was being harvested over the days, imprinting the landscape with lines. A November sun blurred the vision by day but at dusk the mauves combined with a softer yellow. I wanted to work in a freer fashion after again working with stencils on the project before. This work focused on colour, line and texture as I tried a new paint thickener.
Through developing a project from begining to end, the ASHS students decided to record the sound bytes of their school lives. Setting them loose with a letter giving permission to use their phones to record, they scattered and returned to me with sounds I would never have though of!
A school clock ticking, the canteen microwave, drinking out of the water fountain and pumping up the balls in phys ed. They also recorded interviews with their peers from a set of questions developed by the students for both present and past students.
I got to edit the sound bytes into a whole and pair with the archive images.
Truely it was so much fun working with their ideas….. check it out!
When the young students ask what slang words the past students of ASHS used, I went straight to the Alumni Facebook group and did they deliver!
The confused faces about the word “Munted”
Nat Rad Artist + Artsworker 