Towers and monuments. In an unguarded moment. This work is meant to be unfinished. A finished unfinished. It is about time and place and the relationship of both. How that is to be should change. It depends where you are looking from. Where you stand. This is not what I do. I'm thinking about it. Neither the towers nor the monuments hold water.
John Tuckwell has been a ceramic artist for more than 25 years. He studied at ANU in Canberra and has a successful practice that sees him exhibit in Australia and overseas. He has had more than 60 group and solo exhibitions. Over the years his work has evolved to specialise in porcelain slip constructions.
porcelain, oxides, stains
26 x 80 x 62 cm
Finalist
Judges of the 2018 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize: Michael Lynch AO CBE (Australian Arts administrator, former Director of Sydney Opera House and former CEO of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, Hong Kong) and Amanda Love (Director Loveart, independent Art Advisory).
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