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Michael Keighery
Michael Keighery is
an internationally renowned artist and ceramist. He is one of the worlds
leading researchers and innovators in the area of ceramics. A long time
driving force of the arts holding may prestigious and consultative
positions in the arts community. He has been a long time advocate of implementing
modern technology in the arts as a catalyst for lateral thinking.
He was once referred to in the "Sydney Morning
Herald" as a "Techno Potter" .
This page is dedicated to some of his work.
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Michael Keighery....a closer look.
Michael Keighery attended the Sydney College of the Arts,
between 1983 and 1985, graduating with a Postgraduate Diploma (Visual Arts).
Prior to that he received a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) from the Sydney
College of the Arts (Majors – Ceramics and Glass) between 1980 and 1982.
He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of
Western Sydney. Previously he was a Lecturer in Ceramics and Coordinator
of Post Graduate Studies at the University of Newcastle, NSW (1988-1994).
He began his career as Acting Head, Glass Department at the Sydney College
of the Arts (1986-1987).
Michael has held non-renumerative positions including
President and Australian Delegate to the World Crafts Council, Crafts Council
of Australia, Member of the Arts Advisory Council, NSW Ministry for the
Arts, Chairperson of the Visual Arts/Crafts Committee and is presently
Chair of the National Association for the Visual Arts.
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He has presented papers at numerous conferences within Australia
and the USA such as California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic
Art (196), The 8th National Ceramics Conference, ACT (197), Arts of Sight,
Art of Mind, NAVA National Forum, NSW (1988) and more recently the Shepparton
Art Gallery International Ceramics Conference VIC and the 9th National
Ceramics Conference, WA (1999).
He has exhibited in selected group exhibitions in Australia
such as Silk Cut Awards, Victoria (1998), Homebrand, NSW (1997), Investigating
Australiana, NSW, Fresh Australian Clay, Victoria (1993). Some of
the international exhibitions he has exhibited in are Fired, UK (197),
Glazed Expressions, UK, Fired Print, UK, Delinquent Angel, Italy, with
tours to Japan and Singapore (1995), Taipei International Exhibition of
Ceramics, Taipei (1994), Japan, Singapore, Italy and Taipei.
Since 1982, Michael has held several solo exhibitions
in New South Wales, Victoria, ACT and New Zealand. He is also represented
in the public collections of major institutions such as Art Gallery of
WA, Perth WA, Power House Museum, Sydney, NSW and the National Gallery
of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, regional galleries such as the Campbelltown
Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Latrobe Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, Bathurst
Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Organge Regional Art Gallery, NSW and internationally
at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and the Wanganui Community College, New
Zealand.
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Pictured above, one of the
pieces created for the recent "Decada" exhibition held at the prestigious
Mura Clay Gallery in Sydney, Australia.
The piece depicts an image of
Chariman Mao embedded in that famous aussie icon the "Life Saver"
. The origianal 3D model was created by 3D scanning the image of Chairman
Mao from a medalion and drawing a 3D model of the Life Saver.
Both images were combined then run through Artcam for the toolpath generation
stage. Plaster molds are created from the machined pattern then clay pressings
are created.
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Similar to the Life saver work the
mould for this piece was created from a flat bed scanned picture (BMP),
the 3D
model is created in Artcam by
setting a width, height and depth.
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This mold was created by electonically
digitising a coin, the coin is placed in the 3D scanner and an ultrasonic
stylus passes over the coin at a certain pitch (spacing) recording the
surface. The surface is modified and manupulated using
solids or knurbs modeling software
then passed through Artcam for the toolpath creation and verification stage.
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If you have any questions for michael you can contact him at: m.keighery@uws.edu.au
or you can
visit his reaserch web site: http://ceramicresearchcentre.com.au
You can view of purchase Michael's works at the:
Mura Clay Gallery
49-51 King Street
Newtown NSW 2042
Australia
Ph: 02 9550 4433 Fx: 02 9550 1996
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