Tracks Magazine: Used Boards as the Ultimate Bartering Tool

Tracks Magazine: Used Boards as the Ultimate Bartering Tool

Article by Luke Kennedy

NAS alumnus Roman Giuffre was in need of a new surfboard and brokered a deal with Kennedy: rather than diminish his cash supply for the board he offered to create an original art piece.

“I would say my art could be described simply as studies of shape, colour and form… I pull compositions from my environments that catch my eye and try to distil them until they work as a resolved image.” — Roman Giuffre.

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Karatsu ceramicist Yukiko Tsuchiya (@tsuchiyayukiko) and curator Kathryn Hunyor (@artspeople_au) delivered two very special workshops in the teaching studios of the Ceramics Department at the National Art School (NAS), in an exciting collaboration between The Japan Foundation (@jpfsydney), Sydney, the NAS Ceramics Department and the National Art School.

Peek inside the wheel-throwing and hand-coiling masterclasses that took place.
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