By Callum Ludwig
The Victorian branch of the Australasian Porcelain Art Teachers is coming back to the gallery at the Mont De Lancey Historic Homestead for a month-long display.
The presentation of porcelain products will be on display throughout November, the same time as the group exhibited last year.
Member of the Australasian Porcelain Art Teachers Chris Chamberlain said the reception they got last year was really good.
“We had people coming through and we had some artists demonstrating at the exhibition on different days so the public could just watch and see how we go about it,” she said.
“Mont De Lancey is such a lovely place to have an exhibition so we were pleased to be going back again this year.”
Works included in the exhibition will range from traditional, European-style, scenes, portraits, animals and stylised designs featuring pen work, textures and lustres.
Ms Chamberlain said it’s a very versatile art form.
“It opens people’s eyes to the work involved in porcelain art, painting on the china, some people have no idea how it’s done and so they find that interesting and we have many different styles from very modern types of work to more traditional types of painting,” she said.
“With your oils or watercolours, you can sit and paint until you finish it but with the porcelain art we’re firing the porcelain in a kiln, there’s several firings involved in finishing one piece the work won’t sort of stay on the chinar until it’s fired,”
“Being porcelain, we can paint anything from cups and saucers to plates to vases, we can also paint on either ceramic or porcelain tiles and have them framed so you can hang them on the wall, the same as you would an oil or watercolour painting.”
The Australasian Porcelain Art Teachers formed over 40 years ago, with the Victorian branch consisting of teachers all over the state who run classes teaching the medium and feature in many exhibitions.
A flyer will be available in the gallery with information about the Australasian Porcelain Art Teachers and how anyone interested can find a teacher near them.
The gallery is free to enter and will be open from 10am to 4pm from Wednesday to Sunday each week.
