Ian Currie    back to workshop

Ian Currie lives and works in Queensland, Australia, on a community at Maryvale less than two hours drive from Brisbane. He has been studying and working with clay and glazes for over 30 years.

In 1971-72 he spent over a year in Japan studying many aspects of Japanese ceramics, including their approach to glazes. Upon his return to Australia, he made a living producing functional handmade stoneware and porcelain.

His interest in glazes eventually led to lecturing in the subject Australia wide. In 1980 he founded a correspondence course in Stoneware Glazes for the Australian Flying Arts School ( now Flying Arts Inc.) and taught this course for several years. He was also a flying pottery lecturer with AFAS during this period.

He is best known for the method he has developed over the years for studying glazes - a very efficient systematic technique that quickly reveals glaze principles while discovering beautiful glazes, and outlined in his books which have become standard references. Recently he has extended the approach making it recipe-based so it is more accessible to potters with an aversion to chemistry and calculations. Also it now covers a full range of firing temperatures.

He was invited to speak at the Fort Worth NCECA conference in 1998, and also at the 2001 NCECA at Charlotte NC. His regular workshop tours of the US are enthusiastically received.

These days he spends most of his working life writing and teaching, makes pots for pleasure only, and enjoys singing a-cappella.

For more information visit Ian Currie's web site at: http://ian.currie.to/