Yvette De Lacy - Before the Rain with Eagle Flying Vase
Yvette De Lacy - Before the Rain with Eagle Flying Vase
Yvette De Lacy, Before the Rain with Eagle Flying Vase
Stoneware, slip, oxide and glaze, 22 x 26 x 19.5 cm
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Yvette De Lacy is a potter who lives and works on the Kinglake Mountain Ranges overlooking Melbourne. Her studio is an old corrugated potato shed, which is situated on her native flower farm and is surrounded by farmland and forests. She works as a full-time potter and her pottery is called Mountain Clay.
Yvette completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in Ceramics in 1993 at The Victorian College of the Arts. She also holds a Graduate Diploma in Secondary Art from Melbourne University which brought her to teach Secondary Art and Design during the 2000's. Yvette's foundation was in ceramic sculpture, but since 2014 she has been making functional tableware. Yvette uses local stoneware clay with a range of glazes and oxides to decorate her pieces, alongside sgraffito techniques. Yvette throws on the wheel and hand builds her pieces. She fires her work in an oxidation environment using an electric kiln.
Yvette’s work is strongly influenced by the natural environment that she lives in. She is surrounded by tall Mountain Ash forests, rolling hills with Wedge tailed eagles flying overhead. As well as the mountains she also tries to spend some time each year at National Parks along the coast of Australia. Yvette captures the feelings that she experiences when immersed in the natural world. Her work also tells the stories of the untouched places and the importance of preserving these places for native species and future generations.
‘Before the Rain' series was made by De Lacy after travelling to Central Australia. She hand built and threw on the pottery wheel to make these pieces, using local stoneware clay, and sculpting images onto the surfaces and engraving using sgraffito. De Lacy layered slips, oxides and glazes on the surface of the pot adding to its form.
Walking the path into the heartland, I am immersed in colour and light. I feel held. The desert is bright with anticipation of the coming rains. The journey into this country is one of acceptance and humility.
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