Name: Pippin Drysdale
Item: Pippin Drysdale
Author: Australian Ceramics

Pippin Drysdale is one of Australia’s most accomplished contemporary ceramic artists and one of our finest exports. Her works continue to be in demand by galleries, museums, curators and collectors all around the world. Drysdale’s career as a ceramic artist spans over 45 years. Working from her studio in Fremantle, surrounded by the catalogue of her trials and experiments – racks of wonderful pots of all colours and sizes that failed her almost impossible test of quality – Pippin Drysdale continues to interrogate her practice from the perspective of an artist without borders.

Australia’s vast semi-arid spaces (including ten deserts) that compose 70% of the Australian mainland, are characterised by poor soil, droughts and infrequent flooding rains. Yet they boast an impressive biodiversity and many spectacular ancient geological formations that are an ongoing source of inspiration for Pippin Drysdale. The artist explains that landscape ‘is all about colour, whether subtle and soft or vibrant with contrast’. Drysdale never aims to accurately reproduce a scene, but rather captures fleeting moments in an intuitive manner, and celebrates her passion for the structures, colours and memories of the Australian ‘outback’ that is her birth place and home.

Pippin Drysdale

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