Boot Scootin' Venus
white stoneware clay, clear glaze, fired to 1100°C, overglaze gold lustre, enamels, semi-precious stones, costume jewellery. 50 cm tall x 30 cm deep x 20 cm wide The archetype Venus – the Woman – here portrayed as an American western bordello queen, saloon seductress, seducer and femme fatale. She is also a sister and guide, feminist and ‘arch-defender of her gender’. Venus is feisty, fruity, frivolous, fulsome and fights like hell. This portrayal is an exercise in describing women to other women, a kind of exultation of what it is to be ‘us’.
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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
Sally Hook
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