Sally Hook
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I draw my work first, in most cases. It is a process of doodling with a free hand and allowing anything to arrive from my mind. When I review the drawings, I make the ones that stand out for me. In this way, new works flow without a set of restrictions to filter them. I have always worked this way, with a subject at the top of my mind as a starting point. In most cases, human character seems uppermost, the drawings emerging one by one, person by person. Where these ideas come from is a mystery to me, but I am delighted by the process of discovery and can only watch while the work unfolds.
Available Artworks
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Sally Hook
Forester
multiple clay types, oxides, glaze, fired to 1100 degrees C
70 cm tall
It is our privilege to experience the wilds still existing along the eastern coast of Australia, within forests holding tenuously when left alone
Identifying with the place where I live, the hooting of owls could be the most poignant of night sounds that I will protect with all in my power.
Sally Hook
En Famille
Hand built forms using white earthenware clay.
Fumed with oxides, salts and mounted on wood.
29 cm tall
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After Matisse
coil built from fine white earthenware clay with colured inlay clays
fired with a low sheen clear glaze to 1100 degrees
47 cm tall
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Gloriana's Ghost
Inspired by grandiosity using clay leftovers and slip piping decoration.
Fired to 1100 C, glazed with low sheen clear glaze
46 cm tall
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The Weight
Hand built using earthenware clay, oxides.
Fired to 1000 degrees in reduction wood fire
45 cm tall
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The Wait
Hand built using earthenware clay, oxides
Fired to 1000 degrees in reduction wood fire
26 cm tall