AKIKO HANAZAKI | 'Maguma & Jade Glaze Cup (matte)'  | Hand built ceramicAkiko Hanazaki was born in Japan and is now based in Cairns. Her ceramics style is influenced by various eras of Japanese pottery, and also by her Grandmother an accomplished potter back in Japan. Experimentation and innovation are key to Akikos practice and no two pieces are ever the same. Using a variety of styles and materials, Akiko is able to create a new contemporary aesthetic. AKIKO HANAZAKI 'Maguma & Jade Glaze Cup (matte)' Hand built ceramic

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reaching as far as the stars above and the depths of the sea below

Philip Denham is an artist working at the Girringun Aboriginal Art Centre

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Their wind is Kuki the north westerly

in its movement and song

Have you ever danced so long and so wild that you fell through yourself into a place where there is nothing looking back

and a fantasy novel The Heliotropians

He became interested in exploring his Aboriginal heritage at age 13 and in around 1990 Michael began to revive the making of traditional artifacts

through photography

Ink type: Charbonnel burnt sienna and black

We would collect wayk (yellow dye) and pa'amp (red dye) to change the colour of waangk into bright colours