The egg form is used as an analogy for my application of design - there is not one beginning or end. With no specific entry point your eye continuously traces over the form.

My process is: possibilities – map – method - cast a mould - choose clay - test piece - problem solve - change direction - pour cast – alter - dry - clean up – sand – bisque firing – sand – temperature - final firing – sand - trace steps – vary – repeat.

Design is a compilation of my ideas, ceramic processes and the environment. It entails a plan or map of my intention, a series of choices, problems and questions.

Designing in clay offers many happenstances – slight alterations in materials or process can become distinct differences.

Joanne Searle completed a First Class Honours degree at the Australian National University, School of Art, Ceramics Workshop in 1999. Since, Joanne has exhibited both Nationally and Internationally including the 53rd International Ceramics Competition in Faenza, Italy in 2003 and the First Taiwan Ceramics Biennale in 2004. In 2004 Joanne was invited artist at the Asia Pacific Students Workshop - Ceramics for Use, a New Perspective at the University of Hawaii. In 2004 Joanne was part of the exhibition ‘Terra Alterius: Land of Another’ at the Iven Dougherty Gallery, Sydney this show has since travelled nationally.

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