Tracie Anderson

Tracie Anderson has been a ceramic artist for many years, she is born and bred in the South-West of Western Australia and has been brought up surrounded by the fantastic coastline which she enjoys everyday. Through the seasons of the year Tracie gathers unusual and everyday objects from our shore to use in her beautiful ceramic sculptures. Be it driftwood or shell, rock or bone Tracie sees something in it that can be transformed to a piece of art that reflects the beauty from which it has come. Tracie holds a Diploma in Visual Art & Craft and confesses to an ongoing daily education in manipulating and firing of different clays that she uses in her sculptures. Porcelain is the main clay that is used in her workshop as it has elasticity for hand building and yet is strong enough to be worked to translucency in her fragile seaweed pieces. The glazes that are used are soft and languid, pale greens and blues that reflect the summer days and warm sand of the South-West. The found objects that are used in Tracies work all have a story of where they come from and can be as far as Broome in the North-West or Albany in the Great Southern but all is thought fully married with porcelain to make a beautiful piece of art that is proudly Western Australian and reflects the lifestyle that is lived in our coastal towns. Hopefully you have had an opportunity to appreciate Tracies work and have been lucky enough to take something home to remind you of our beautiful South-West.