Greg Daly is a ceramic artist, who is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics, Geneva. A ceramicist of national and international standing, his works in state galleries of Australia, and over 21 countries public art galleries/museums around the world. His 66 solo exhibitions have spanned over 30 years and numerous group exhibitions. He has received 37 awards for his work nationally and internationally.

Greg has had work published in 21 books on ceramics and wrote “Glazes and Glaze Techniques”. In 1991 he worked with Australian Fine China on a design project that led to tableware being produced with his design.

“I have concern for the whole piece – designing, throwing, finishing, glazing, firing, decorating - are all important to me in the creation of the work. Images, illusions of surface and the form they are placed upon create individual works”.

 

Two meanings I came across for the word ‘Design’ were: “to work out or create the form or structure of something” & “ to plan and make something in a skilful or artistic way”. I stopped looking for other definitions as these two held words that appealed to my way of working and thinking.

Create, form something, plan, make, skilful, artistic. For me design isn’t a stand-alone word. Rolled up in design, is a process drawing on many skills relating to understand- ing the materials, skills in making, and the creative and artistic intuitive side forming ideas that are all drawn upon in the process of design leading to the making and forming of the work.

I prefer to sketch in the material itself (clay), responding to the material in the plastic form (throwing, pushing, cutting, beating), then the application of glaze. Here the interaction of one glaze with another thickness, temperature and atmosphere controlling the final colour and not a sketch in pencil or wash but with glaze.

Design for me is more like a holistic approach, involving all aspects of the material, making, skills, knowledge and experience to create the final work.

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