Prue Venables
Melbourne, VIC
Prue Venables (b.1954) is a prominent ceramicist whose work and philosophy of making were initially influenced by the intensely rigorous studio pottery course she completed in 1983 at Harrow School of Art in the United Kingdom. She also found inspiration by investigating the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century industrial techniques of the potteries at Stoke-on-Trent.
After 13 years she returned to Australia in 1989 and began to work with Limoges porcelain – discovering that the luminous beauty of the material precluded the need for decoration. Logically, form assumed a more primary role as Venables explored the aesthetics of simple utilitarian objects.
Venables has exhibited regularly around the world and has maintained an interest in design for production. In 2004 she was invited to Gifu City in Japan by the Oribe Design Centre, to develop a new range of contemporary tableware for industrial production.
Stockists
Rex Irwin Fine Art, Sydney
Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
Beaver Galleries, Canberra
Besson Gallery, London
Barret Marsden Gallery, London