Neville French
With a decades long career, Neville French is one of Australia’s most revered classical ceramicists. His large-scaled porcelain structures explore a sincere engagement with the environment, paying homage to vast topographies, and silent, spiritual landscapes. A guiding principle of French’s work is the transformative effect of light on surface planes but through this mechanism, his works summon the eye across solid forms and into hollow spaces. By gently manipulating his thrown vessels French has developed a unique visual language, in an attempt to distil the very essence of place. This relationship is further grounded through hand crafted glazes created from materials which French personally mines at various locations around Australia. French's works are held in state and national institutions such as the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia, Queensland Art Gallery/GOMA, Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory along with more than 20 other public collections. French graduated with a Masters of Arts degree from RMIT University in 2000 and has been curated into more than thirty significant exhibitions in Australia, Germany, the UK and South Korea.
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